Values: The Gospel
At BCM, we believe the Gospel (or the good news) of Jesus Christ is the answer to every deep question that we could ever ask.
We believe the Gospel of Jesus is the best news that we could ever possibly receive in this lifetime.
The Gospel of Jesus meets our every need that we have as individuals in the world: the need for identity, for provision, for purpose, for love, for community, friendship, etc.
The Gospel of Jesus is not just applicable on a personal level either, it is also applied as a holistic good news for the earth itself, for peoples and nations because the Gospel of Jesus Christ culminates with His promise to eventually redeem and renew all things both physically and practically.
The Gospel of Jesus is also good news for the poor, the broken, the imprisoned, the oppressed. The Gospel gives us hope in all circumstances.
Teaching the Gospel at the BCM is the foundation of everything we do. Every teaching, event, meeting is filtered through the lens of the Gospel. Our teaching aims to bring us back to the good news that Jesus Christ offers to us, always looking to deepen our understanding of it, memorize it, build our lives on it and apply it to our daily lives. As students come through the BCM experience, they will encounter mentorship and discipleship experiences based on the Gospel as well as opportunities to respond to this great message that Jesus Christ offers. Every mentorship opportunity with staff with always begin with the Gospel.
Romans 1:16, Romans 10:9-13, 1 John 4:9-10
Q: Wait, what is “the Gospel”?
The word Gospel means “good news”.
We learn through the Bible, that the human condition is unfortunately in its core, hopelessly broken. This brokenness has been since the beginning of the world when the first man and the first woman disobeyed God, believing themselves to be wiser than he and eating the fruit in the garden of Eden (Genesis 2).
Since this broken relationship between God and man has occurred, sin has marred the human soul. The human condition always chooses self, holds on to material items in greed, lusts freely for others causing relational discord and havoc, takes what it wants for itself and never consistently chooses their neighbor leaving brokenness and pain in its wake.
We see this over and over again in the Bible as the people of God consistently turn from His ways and a relationship with Him for self-seeking and comfort.. Even the law, the sacrificial system God gave to His people could not save them, their religious practices went empty and they lost the heart of the way God intended them to live, which was as a light to the nations. They went wayward over and over until God went silent for 400 years.
Then, entered Jesus. Jesus was fully God, and fully Man, and He came into the world to teach us how to live. Not only did He come to teach, preach and usher in the in-breaking Kingdom of God, but lived a sinless life and died at the hands of His own people as the once and for all perfect sacrifice for their sins. This sacrifice was necessary in order to redeem a relationship of a broken-sinful people to a perfect, omniscient, holy and might God of the universe.
Now that Jesus has made the atonement for sins, He now sits at the right hand of the throne of God. And now, we wait for the final restoring and redeeming of all things. There will eventually be the “new heavens and the new earth” where the Lord Jesus Christ will make all the wrong things right again. In the meantime, we watch for Him and we wait while participating in bringing the Kingdom of God to earth.
