Back Creek Church | Charlotte, NC

Why is loving the Lord our God the greatest commandment - the greatest thing a human being can do? Because God is the greatest and highest Good: our Creator and our Redeemer. 

We are called to wide reach as we love and witness to our neighbors and the nations. Our core values that drive our mission: Real Hope - the struggle is real, but there is hope.  Deep Connection - the Gospel creates an uncommon community. Full Engagement - Back Creek Church is us, but it isn't about us. Wide Reach - we love our neighbors and we love the nations.

In the church, no one is extra - everyone is essential. We need everyone to be fully engaged in the worship, life, and mission of our church. Back Creek Church is us, but it isn't about us. 

Pastor Matt Mantooth shares from Genesis 2, Mark 2 , and Isaiah 58 about the rest God calls us into and learning to delight in it. 

Rev. Darin Stone from Ministry to State shares from Leviticus 19 about loving our neighbors as ourselves. 

The Gospel creates an uncommon community that cultivates deep connection through perceiving the connection that already exists, practicing the connection we long for, and publishing our connection to the world.

The Real Hope of the Gospel brings new life to a person, characterized by a new king of endurance, a new kind of love, a new kind of faith, and a new kind of joy.

Our mission is our destination - where we believe God is calling us to go as a church. Our core values drive us toward that destination: real hope, deep connection, full engagement, wide reach. When the risen Christ ascended to heaven, he did not leave us with a great CLUB to enjoy with likeminded people, a great COMFORT to magnify our own consumerism and preferences, a great CROWD that gathers fo...

Wisdom requires us to do justice. Tim Keller defines biblical justice as "giving people their due." That involves a proportional response to evil, but also includes extending to people their rights. As bearers of God's image, all human beings have a right to dignity, protection, provision, and love. It is particularly required of the Church that we care for the vulnerable - the widow, th...

Wisdom requires us to walk in integrity, with Jesus as our "true north."

Wisdom requires us to find contentment outside our circumstances, by identifying the sources of our discontentment (expectations and envy) and by knowing the source of true contentment (fear of and trust in the Lord). Proverbs 13:25, 14:30, 19:23, 3:5-8

Wisdom requires us to embrace the abundant life that God provides. How? Through relationship with God, following Jesus down the path of righteousness, and sharing the abundant life with others. It all comes down to one thing, really: get busy livin' or get busy dyin'.

Wisdom requires that we choose our friends carefully, commit to our friends fully, and care for our friends practically.

Wisdom requires a new relationship with money. Principles that help establish this new relationship: 1) all the money is the Lord's 2) the Lord ordinarily provides through honest, hard work 3) generosity is a blessing, to us and through us 4) the Lord is the real treasure

Wisdom requires family. Wisdom pursues a biblical family, embraces a broken family, and receives a better family.

Wisdom requires that we steward our emotions well, by recognizing our emotions are real but refusing to let our emotions rule. Emotions can be a great navigator but they are almost always a terrible driver. F - feel your feelings (it is not healthy to ignore or suppress them) E - engage your feelings (question them - what? why? how? who?) E - express your feelings appropriately (to the Lord, to yo...

In God's Kingdom, the way up is down. Pride brings humiliation and harm; humility brings honor and happiness. Wisdom requires that we kill pride and cultivate humility.

The Lord's Supper is a means of grace to us as a meal, memorial, and message, and it has meaningful effects for our lives.

Baptism signifies, seals, and shows the identity we have been given in Christ. It is a means of grace to grow us in faith - not merely at the moment of baptism, but all our lives long.

God speaks and we listen through His Word. We speak and God listens when we pray.

The Holy Spirit saves sinners and sanctifies saints (applying to them the work of Christ) by the Word. Faith comes by hearing, and hearing through the Word of Christ.

We finish the Mark's Gospel with this passage that may not have been part of the original, inspired text by leaning on parallel accounts and information in the other Gospels and the rest of the New Testament. We see that Jesus' mission was decisively victorious in his resurrection, but that his mission continues.

Whatever you think you're seeking, and however you've been seeking it, what you really seek is a crucified and risen Christ.

In His suffering, humiliation, and death on the cross, Jesus takes away our shame and our sin.

This chapter in Mark's Gospel shows us at least four ways people respond to Jesus...