Our Mission

Interested in learning about BCC's mission and beliefs? We believe the church is a community of healing, where you are loved, accepted, and welcomed as part of the family. We share our experiences, pray for one another, and lift our voices together in praise to our Savior. BCC is missionally engaged in the world, supporting generosity, integrity, and the proclamation of the Kingdom of God. Being engaged in a Bible-based church can provide us with all we need to be God's witnesses to a world hungry for peace and love.

The Mission of Blackman Community Church is: "Loving. Sharing. Sending."

Loving

At Blackman Community Church we believe that the Christian life begins with being loved by God, and loving God in response. Each time we gather to worship it is in the knowledge that God unconditionally loves us, and we are driven to love God with all of our hearts, mind, soul, and strength in return!

Sharing

God calls us to share this journey of love with others. We are never alone! Therefore, we believe that the life of every believer is defined by sharing life and service together in community and for our community. We believe this should be a part of our regular rhythm of life.

Sending

Christ is a sending Savior. This is why, at Blackman Community Church, we celebrate the sending capacity of our church. We believe that every person and community is being sent by God to participate in the movement of the Kingdom of God! Our desire is to participate in it!

Our Beliefs

Blackman Community Church is part of the worldwide Church of the Nazarene. We're a Protestant Christian church with an emphasis on the transforming work that God wants to do in our lives - to shape us into people who reflect the character of Jesus. If you want to learn more about the Nazarene denomination, check out www.nazarene.org. Here are some of the basics from our articles of faith:

God

We believe in the one eternally existent and infinite God who is Creator and Sustainer of all creation. This God who is holy love and light is essentially Triune, revealed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe in Jesus Christ the only Son our Lord, who is eternally co-existent with the Father. This second person of the Trinity is both fully God and fully man, a union of two whole and perfect natures. We believe that Jesus Christ died for all sin, was resurrected in the body, and ascended into heaven, where he now engages in intercession for us. We believe in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Trinity, who is ever present and active in and with the Church and all of creation restoring and renewing all of creation.

Bible

Sin

We believe that sin entered into the world through the disobedience of our first parents, and death as a consequence. We believe that sin exists in two kinds: original and person. Original sin is that sin which is the corruption of the human nature of every human being. We believe that original results in an inclination to sin and propensity to evil. Personal sin is a voluntary violation of a known law of God by a morally responsible person. We believe that personal sin is primarily and essentially a violation of the law of love; and that in relation to Christ sin may be defined as unbelief.

Forgiveness

Grace

Salvation

We believe that God acts in grace to pardon us from all guilt and grants complete release from the penalty of sin, that a person is then reborn and given a distinct newness of life in the spirit capable of faith, love, obedience, and that we are adopted as sons and daughters of God! We believe that entire sanctification is that act of God, following pardon, rebirth, and adoption, by which believers are made free from original sin, or depravity, and brought into a state of entire devotement to God, and the holy obedience of love made perfect.

Church

We believe in the Church, the community that confesses Jesus Christ as Lord. We believe that every believer is called to life as a member of the united body of Christ. The mission of the Church in the world is to share in the redemptive and reconciling ministry of Christ in the power of the Spirit. The Church fulfills its mission by making disciples through evangelism, education, showing compassion, working for justice, and bearing witness to the kingdom of God.

Sacraments

We believe that our Lord, for every believer, commands Christian baptism. It is a means of grace that signifies the acceptance of and faith in Jesus Christ. It is to be administered with a declaration of the believer to live in live in holy love and obedience to God. We believe that the Memorial and Communion Supper founded by our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ is an act of declaring his sacrificial death that saves all humanity. It is distinctively for those who are prepared for reverent appreciation of its significance, and by it they show forth the Lord’s death till He come again.

Eternity

We believe that our Lord Jesus Christ will come again, that we who are alive will follow those are asleep, and if we are abiding in Christ will be caught up with all the saints to meet the Lord and be with the Lord forever. We believe in the resurrection of the dead, that the bodies of both the just and of the unjust will be raised to life and united with their spirits: “those who have done good to everlasting life; and those who have done evil to everlasting condemnation.” We believe in the future judgment in which every person will appear before God to be judged according to his or her deeds in life. We believe that glorious and everlasting life is assured to all who savingly believe in, and obediently follow, Jesus Christ our Lord; and that the finally unrepentant will suffer eternally in hell.

Want to worship with us?

We meet for worship each week at the Lane Agri-Park Center at 315 John Rice Blvd in the main building. Service begins at 10:30am, but we invite you to share in fellowship with coffee at 10:00am. We'd love to see you there!

Let’s Get In Touch!