In my thesis I intend to analyze the major functions of the black church in the black experience from its formation until present times, especially focusing on African American people’s personal relationship with God, their views on the Bible, and sentiments about the importance of church and religion.Therefore, my aim is to prove that during slavery, faith in God and in the words of the Bible served as major factors in restoring broken identity, finding hope, and enduring the inhumane conditions for those enslaved African-Americans, who were willing to accept and embrace the message of the Bible and the religion based on it. Also, I wish to prove that the institutional black church has helped the African-American community fight a system set out to put down and exploit Black people, by undertaking various programs, organizations, and movements, focusing on social problems like racial oppression, segregation, injustice, poverty, illiteracy, and criminality, which hit the Black community during the 20th century. I also intend to prove the fact that black church has always served as key entity in the collective experience of people of African descent in the United States, and by keeping alive its original values through the centuries, it still offers moral leadership for its believers, and serves as the leading source of social cohesion in the Black community.