Bayshore Community Church
WELCOME TO Bayshore
WELCOME MESSAGE FROM PASTOR HARPER
Welcome to our BCC website! If you are searching for a loving, healthy church, our hope and prayer is that we are the place for you! Feel free to check out the "New Here" tab at the top where you can find the answers to many of your questions.
If you have never been to our church before, we'd love to meet you this Sunday and get to know you in person. It is our desire to see lives changed by the power of Jesus Christ as we grow together in our spiritual journey. Our mission at Bayshore is 'to love God deeply and love others as God through Christ, has loved us'. We look forward to seeing you soon if God so wills!
OUR BCC VISION:
To offer a beacon of unchanging truth and lasting hope to our increasingly anxious, rudderless culture.
We have returned to 2 services on Sundays.
9:00am & 10:45am
SERVICE TIMES
SUNDAY:9:00am & 10:45am
Children's/Youth Church offered at Sunday mornng service - 10:45am. Students will be dismissed after musical worship.
Sunday Night in the Word: Sunday evening at 6:00 p.m.
VIRTUAL SERVICES
If you cannot attend in person or you would like to revisit previous services, we live stream our services every Sunday. These services are available for viewing both on our Face Book page: BCC North Fort Myers and on You Tube: Bayshore Community Church NFMFL
BCC Small Groups
Del & Kathy Arnold have a small group meeting at BCC Church Fellowship Hall 10:00 am Friday mornings.
Contact Del Arnold for info. 717-574-3898
Rich & Suzy Roiger have a small group meeting at Del Tura Community NFM, FL 2:00 pm Sunday afternoons.
Contact Rich Roiger for info. 612-236-7336
Dave & Lynnie McComb along with David & Gloria Hitchings have a small group meeting in North Fort Myers at 10:00 am Monday mornings.
Contact Dave McComb for info. 317-531-5555
Carl Wassmer with Andre & Pam Lemieux have a small group meeting at BCC Fellowship Hall at 6:30 pm Wednesday evenings.
With potluck at 5:30pm
Contact Carl Wassmer for info. 954-471-7679
Todd & Trish Fetzner and Joe & Linda Perlak with a small group meeting in North Fort Myers at 6:30 pm Tuesday evenings.
Contact Todd Fetzner for info. 239-478-4945
Scott Grimm & Paul Welch with a small group meeting in Fort Myers at 10 a.m. Wednesday mornings.
Contact Scott Grimm for info. 239-677-9260
Jim & Tammy Harper have a small group meeting at BCC Fellowship Hall at 6:30 pm Wednesday evenings.
with Potluck at 5:30 pm
Contact Pastor Jim for info. 928-978-7624
BCC WEEKLY EMAIL
Where are your beliefs based?
Pastor Jim Harper
11/13/2024
Last week I started a new series at BCC entitled: Why you believe What you believe. My premise was that every human being thinks and, thus, has also developed certain beliefs throughout their lifetimes. I also mentions that even those who disparge the fundamental concept that truth is "absolute" (true for all peope of all time) hold certain 'absolute truth' positions themselves. For example, by making the definitive statement "there is no such thing as absolute truth", the speaker is making a statement of 'absolute truth', from their own personal perspective.
Many who hold to and perpetuate the view that truth is 'relative' (what's true for me is not necessarily true for you) also deny there is a God ('Atheism' - subset of 'Secular Humanism'). People holding this view are convinced 'man is the ultimate measure' and, thus, we are each the 'god' of our own existence. Whatever invades our lives, the ultimate answer can be found inside each one of us.
I suggested last Sunday that at some point, most people ask the 'big three' questions: 1 - Why am I here? 2 - Where did I come from? & 3 - What comes next? Atheism/Humanism answers these fundamental questions this way: 1 - My existence is random accident; 2 - Not sure and it really doesn't matter. Why? & 3 - In the end, we simply cease to exist.
Can you imagine living that way? No meaning. No purpose. No answers to life's most terrifying circumstances: A hurricane destroys my home - a medical diagnosis leaves me in shambles - my job proves to be expendable due to recessionary times - my child/grandchild decides he or she has been identifyin as the wrong 'gender'. All the above are massive emotional hits to the human heart yet Humanism/Atheism offers no explanation, comfort or hope in the face of such human crisis. Sorry... tough luck for you.
But the Biblical Christian automatically turns to the scripture for answers to any and every human situation and curcumstance and has been doing so for the past two millennia. But here are several key questions: Is the Bible really true? Isn't it just an ancient book authored by a bunch of mortals? Isn't the Bible just a 'psychological crutch' - a 'placebo' of sorts? For many, the Bible gives people a false sense of hope and security to help make it through the ragged, often brutal 'ups and downs' of life on this earth - but nothing more.
Actually, this is a great set of questions and they're the very questions we're seeking to ask and answer in my present series: Why you believe What you believe (about the Bible). If absolute truth exists that mankind can turn to and depend on in times of greatest need; Is that truth found in the pages of Scripture? You may believe the Bible is true, but if pressed, can you explain why? If not, this series is for you. Join us in person or on-line, won't you?
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