Our Story
Redeemer was born out of a vision – to see the transformation of lives, relationships, and the very city itself flourish through the redemptive love of Jesus Christ.
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God promised that he is making all things new, including Midtown Memphis. We seek, therefore, to lovingly follow Christ in our city, to love and serve our friends and neighbors, to share their joy and tears, and to provide for everyone a safe space to explore, expand, express, or exclude the claims of Christ. Each week, our local church family pours themselves into the very fabric of Midtown Memphis: socially, culturally, economically, and spiritually.
Since our launch in 2006, Redeemer has strived to be faithful to this vision. Whether we were meeting in the Church Health Center, Snowden School, or our current home on South Cooper Street, we have seen God bring people together from all steps of faith and doubt. Over years of music and prayer, laughter and tears, conversation and food; the Lord has grown a handful of people into a congregation who gather regularly to dream about and move toward God’s promise to make all things new – even us.
Our Values
The Gospel
In general, the gospel is the message that God is redeeming his fallen creation through the coming of his kingdom in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
In particular, the gospel is the thrilling news that God saves sinners by grace alone through faith alone in Jesus alone. We want to celebrate and revel in the beauty of Jesus and have everything that we do as a church shot through with the gospel of grace.
Midtown Memphis
Midtown is amazing; it’s historic, eclectic, diverse, artsy, gritty. It is a glorious contradiction: beautiful and broken, affluent and impoverished, lost and found. This place and its people matter deeply to us as a church. Therefore we focus our energy and resources on being a faithful presence here through service, prayer, justice, building relationships, and seeking the common good. We are committed to being in Midtown for Midtown.
One Another
We aren’t interested in gathering a crowd but rather forming a community. The gospel creates a new kind of community, one where people’s stories are shared, burdens are carried, hurts are known, and joys are celebrated all under the banner of the gospel.
Redeemer seeks to be a people whose lives are integrated together, not a collection of atomized individuals and families.
Cultural Engagement
Redeemer is a church that doesn’t just exist for ourselves. Everything that we do as is oriented toward dialoguing with and being a blessing to our neighbors who are unchurched and de-churched.
Our communication, programs, and events are designed to engage and benefit those who are not Christians.
Hospitality
Redeemer seeks to be a place that is welcoming, open, and big-hearted to anyone regardless of what they believe. We expect people who are not Christians to be present at everything we do and we strive to create an environment where everyone feels respected, engaged with, and taken seriously.
Collaboration
We believe that the Church is bigger than Redeemer. We intentionally build friendships and partnerships with other churches, ministries, and non-profits in Memphis. Our hope is that a spirit of cooperation and partnership will result in both greater impact for the Kingdom as well as a clearer witness to the unifying power of the gospel.
Our Beliefs
Redeemer Presbyterian Church is catholic, historically Protestant, and reformed.
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We embrace the catholic (or orthodox) Christian faith; that is, we confess with all Christians the ecumenical creeds of the early church (the Apostles’, Nicene and Chalcedonian Creeds).
The Trinity - There is one God, who eternally exists in a communion of three persons—the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
The Incarnation - The Second Person of the Holy Trinity—God the Son—became man in the person of Jesus Christ and is both fully God and fully human; one person with two natures (one divine, one human).
The Atonement - Jesus Christ died on the cross and was raised from the dead for the salvation of his people.
The Church - God is doing His work of salvation in and through a community of people assembled from every ethnicity, language, tradition, and nation.
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Redeemer Presbyterian Church is a historically Protestant church. We believe that God has brought a great salvation in the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus. We must respond in faith and be transformed through it:
The Centrality of Christ And The Gospel - Jesus said that everything written in the Old Testament was fulfilled in him (Luke 24:44) and so churches have centered themselves on the person and work of Jesus the Christ. The gospel is the Good News of Jesus Christ. We believe God’s royal announcement of his son’s victorious rescue work is the great message and work of hope freely given to his creation. Jesus Christ is God’s hero sent into the world to rescue, deliver, save, redeem and restore all things. Protestants who continue in their historic faith believe that Jesus is the only source of salvation.
Salvation by Faith Alone - We believe salvation is only by God’s grace, and is received solely by faith in Christ. Our good works are evidence, but do not produce salvation (faith = salvation + works NOT faith + works = salvation).
The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture - We believe the Holy Scriptures are trustworthy, authoritative, and compelling for belief and life. We believe this because the Scriptures are inspired (2 Timothy 3:16), meaning God oversaw the writing the Bible in such a way that He speaks to us in and through its very words. We believe, consequently, that the Scriptures are inerrant—without error in all that it asserts and when properly interpreted.
The Mission of the Church - God’s mission is to make all things new through Jesus Christ. Christians are people who share the same blessings and plight as everyone else in this beautiful, yet, broken world. But, members in Christ’s church have been redeemed and are being restored and are called to share in Christ’s healing mission on behalf of the world and all members of the human family.
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Redeemer Presbyterian Church is also committed to the reformed faith, expressing those doctrinal views associated within the family of historic Presbyterian and Reformed churches (faith alone, grace alone, scripture alone, in Christ alone, for God’s glory alone).
Our official doctrinal statement is found in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms (copies are available upon request), a beautiful exposition of Biblical beliefs and practice. In addition, we are committed to a Presbyterian (representative shepherds) system of church government, which is seen in our participation in and accountability to the Presbyterian Church in America (pcanet.org).
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