Our vision is that every man, woman, and child has the chance to experience the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ. Our strategy for reaching this vision is to make disciples who make disciples, plant spiritually vibrant churches, and partner with other like-minded ministries.
Every man, woman, and child has the chance to experience the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.
We are a family of believers committed to reaching people with the life-changing reality of Jesus Christ.
We are a non-denominational church that is passionate about loving God, loving people, and serving the community and the world around us.
Our people are friendly! When you come to visit, that’s probably what you’ll notice first. We’re a “come as you are” kind of place where everyone is welcome and accepted. When you leave your home, be sure you’re wearing something comfortable. You don’t have to dress to impress at HCBC San Saba. So grab a cup of coffee and some doughnuts, find a seat and make yourself comfortable.
Our music is focused on helping us express our love and appreciation for all that God has done for us. Our aim is to create an environment where God is easy to find and hard to forget. The messages are geared toward helping you understand the Bible and how to apply it’s principles to your day-to-day life.
In 2007, six families in San Saba began a community Bible study that quickly grew, attracting many young families and often having more kids than adults in attendance. Seeing the need for a non-denominational, non-traditional church, the leadership team began traveling weekly to Hill Country Bible Church in Austin, meeting with their leaders to explore planting a Bible church in San Saba. By God’s grace, the first church service was launched in January 2009 at the San Saba Civic Center. For nearly two years, the core team worked tirelessly each Sunday to set up and take down chairs, sound systems, children’s rooms, and more. This time of renting a facility reminded us that church is not just a building but a gathering of believers celebrating God’s work in their lives throughout the week. Beyond Sunday mornings, we’ve hosted outreach events like Sunday Fundays at Mill Pond Park, Dive-In Movies at the city pool, and Christmas movie nights during the Community Christmas Parade. In 2011, we moved into our downtown building, where we continue to meet today while keeping ministry beyond our church walls a core focus.
HCBC is built on the foundation of relationships. First and foremost of all is our relationship with God the Father through Jesus Christ. It is that relationship that is at the very center of our existence as a church; without it we simply would not exist. Next is our relationship with others in our body. Finally, there is our relationship with those outside our body.
Knowing God is HCBC’s primary pursuit. The Bible is our instruction book and the foundation of all Christian experience. We are committed to standing on Biblical truth and nothing else as we evaluate the world around us. We cannot experience growth apart from solid biblical truth.
Our commitment to the Great Commission is the reason for our existence. Everything we say and do as a church must be done with the thought of fulfilling the Great Commission in mind. We are here to reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ and see His reality replicated in them.
We believe that the books of the Old and New Testament, comprising the Holy Bible, are the inspired Word of God. We believe that the Holy Spirit supervised the writers of the Scriptures in what they wrote so that, using their own peculiar personalities, the very words recorded in the original manuscripts are the inerrant revelation of God. We believe the Bible not only contains the Word of God, but actually is God's Word and, therefore, is the complete and final authority for belief and behavior. We believe that this inspiration extends equally and fully to all parts of Scripture: historically, poetically, doctrinally and prophetically (2 Tim. 3:16, 2 Pet. 1:21, 1 Cor. 2:13, John 17:17).
We believe that there is one and only one true and living God, an infinite Spirit who is the Maker and Supreme Ruler of the universe. We believe the Scriptures reveal Him to be holy, sovereign, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, eternal, immutable and full of love, justice, goodness, mercy and truth. Although there is only one God, we believe that in the unity of the Godhead there are three eternal and coequal persons: the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit. We believe these members of the Trinity are the same in substance, having precisely the same nature, attributes and perfections, but are distinct in subsistence, executing different but harmonious functions (Mark 12:29, John 4:24, Matt. 3:1617, Matt. 28:19, 2 Cor. 13:14).
We believe that Jesus Christ is the preexistent and eternal Son of God who became man in order to reveal God and redeem man. We believe He was supernaturally conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the virgin Mary. In His person, we believe the Lord Jesus combined forever full and undiminished deity with true and perfect humanity to become the Godman. We believe Christ died on the cross as a substitute for sinful man, was buried, arose bodily from the tomb, ascended into Heaven where He ministers on the behalf of saints, and someday will come again for His own (John 1:18, 8:58, Matt. 1:23, Col. 1:1517, 1 Tim. 1:15, 3:16).
We believe that the Holy Spirit is the third Person of the Trinity, fully equal with God the Father and God the Son. Although He is of the exact same essence, we believe He is a personality distinct from the other members of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit, we believe, has an active ministry to the world in general which includes the restrain in of evil, convicting of the unsaved and bestowing of God's goodness on all mankind. We also believe He has a ministry to every Christian which consists of regenerating, sealing, indwelling, baptizing into the Body of Christ, at the giving of spiritual gifts. Other ministries to obedient Christians include filling, assuring, teaching, guiding, and comforting (Acts 5:34, 2 Thes. 2:39, John 16:711, Matt. 5:45, Tit. 3:5, Eph. 1:13, 1 Cor. 6:19, 12:13, Eph. 3:20, 1 Cor. 14, James 5:14, Eph. 5:18, Rom. 8:16, 14, John 16:13, 7).
We believe that God created an order of spirit beings known as angels before the formation of the world for the purpose of worshipping and serving Him. We believe angels possess individual personalities and are intelligent, powerful, and inferior to God but superior to man. Lucifer, we believe, was one of the highest in rank of all the angelic beings in eternity past, but he sinned through pride and rebelled against God, thereby becoming Satan. We believe the Devil's proclaimed purpose is to oppose the plan of God and to promote his own evil program by deceiving and attacking men. In carrying out his work, we believe Satan is aided by other fallen angels known as demons or evil spirits. We believe these demons can influence, tempt, and control all men and even "possess" unbelievers. We believe there are unfallen angels, known as elect or holy angels, who carry out the will of God by ministering to men (Col. 1:16, Heb. 1:6, 2 Pet. 2:11, Isa. 14:1215, 1 Pet. 5:8, Eph 6:12, Heb. 1:14).
We believe that the Triune God, according to His sovereign will and for His own glory, created the heavens and the earth without the use of preexistent material. All living things, we believe, came into being by a direct creative act of God and not by an evolutionary or random process, and thus have an existence distinct from Him and yet always dependent on Him (Gen. 2:4, Prov. 16:4, Acts 17:24, Col. 1:1617).
We believe that man was created in the image and likeness of God in a state of innocence. Through deliberate disobedience, we believe man fell from his sinless state and as a consequence lost his fellowship with God and became subject to spiritual and physical death. We believe that through Adam's transgressions the entire human race has inherited a corrupt nature which is essentially evil and unable to please God (Gen. 1:2627, 3:24, Rom. 5:12, Eph. 2:13).
We believe that sin is anything contrary to the character of God. Every man, we believe, is alienated from God because of his depraved nature as well as personal acts of sin. We believe that each person born into the world is separated from God and completely incapable of meriting salvation and avoiding the judgment of God. The sin nature, we believe, is never eradicated, even for those who are born into the family of God, but it remains until the end of life. However, we believe God has made provision for forgiveness of sin through the blood of Jesus Christ and victory over sin through the power of the indwelling Holy Spirit (Rom. 3:10, 23, 6:23, Eph. 4:18, 1 John 1:810, Gal. 5:1617).
We believe that salvation from the penalty and power of sin is provided only through the blood of Jesus Christ which He shed on the cross when He was made sin for us and died in our place. There is nothing man can do, we believe, to attain this salvation through good works, moral achievement or religious status. We believe the one and only condition for salvation is personal faith in Jesus Christ as one's own substitute for and Savior from sin. At the time of salvation, we believe a person is spiritually regenerated, his sins are forgiven, God's righteousness is imputed to him, and he is declared righteous in the sight of God. This salvation, we believe, is complete and a present possession of all believers which remains theirs forever. All who have trusted Christ as Savior are kept secure and will never lose their salvation (1 Pet. 1:1819, 2 Cor. 5:21, 1 Pet. 2:24, Eph 2:89, Tit. 3:5, Eph. 4:32, Rom. 5:1, Rom. 8:3839).
We believe that the Church is a unique organism composed of individuals who have placed their faith in Christ as Savior. The Church began, we believe, on the day of Pentecost and will continue its distinct purpose until the Rapture. We believe that the Church exists in both a universal aspect, as the Body of Christ, and in a local assembly of believers. The local church, we believe, has the twofold purpose of the edification of believers and the evangelization of the lost. The two ordinances of the church are water baptism, which we practice by immersion, and the Lord's Supper, which we believe to be a memorial of Christ's death and is open to all believers (1 Cor. 12:13, Acts 2:14, 1 Thes. 4:1317, Col. 4:16, Eph. 4:7, Heb. 13:17, Matt. 28:1920, 1 Cor. 11:2328.)