We exist for the glory of God

The Bible is so clear on this; all things ultimately exist for the glory of God. As a church we do not exist for our own fame, or so that people would look at us and be impressed. No organization, group, or individual can ever be worth ‘glorifying’ in the same way as God is. Our deepest longing is that as a result of coming into contact with us as a church, people would encounter God, worship and love him.

 

Living the Gospel of Jesus

The Gospel of Jesus is the message of Jesus. It is the grand narrative of the Bible. It is the heart of God for people from eternity past to eternity future. The Gospel never grows old, and we never move past it—just deeper into it. The Gospel has to be lived because it is all-encompassing for the Christian. The Gospel has implications for every area of life, and therefore we live in such a way as individuals and as a community that shows the message of Jesus.

 

Sharing the Gospel of Jesus

The Gospel of Jesus has to be shared in words because words are powerful! We love the Word of God. We want to be a church where the message of Jesus is clearly heard as it is preached about and talked about.​

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We are part of the global story

We're not a church or a small thing tucked away in a corner over here somewhere, doing our best to survive, but part of a huge global movement to reach the people of the world. We need to start seeing ourselves within the great flow of God’s mission. This is the vision that drives us. 

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The mission has a church

We need to understand that the church doesn't have a mission, the mission has a church. We are God’s plan to gather people from every background, every tribe, and every tongue.

 

Antioch type of church

One of the things you need to know about Redeemer is that we don’t believe that there is a sacred/secular divide—that the important stuff happens in meetings in church and the rest of life is not really important. No, everybody is in full-time Christian ministry. Whatever you do throughout the week is of central importance to the extension of the kingdom.

 

In our church here at Redeemer, as in the Antioch church we read about in the book of Acts, it’s not primarily about platforms and meetings, but about living out our normal everyday lives as disciples (walking with Jesus), as family members (sharing life with one another), and as missionaries (sharing Jesus with people who don’t know him).