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 promises he is making all things new, including Midtown Memphis. We seek to follow Christ in our city, to love and serve our friends and neighbors, and to provide a safe space for everyone to explore what it means to be a follower of Jesus. Each week, our church family pours themselves into Midtown Memphis: socially, culturally, economically, and spiritually.
Since our launch in 2006, Redeemer has sought 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 and laughter and tears, the Lord has grown a handful of people into a congregation who are moving toward God’s promise to make all things new – including 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 our church. We focus our energy and resources on being a faithful presence here through service, prayer, 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 family, one where people’s stories are shared, burdens are carried, hurts are known, and joys are celebrated all under the gospel.
Redeemer seeks to be a people whose lives are integrated together, not a collection of isolated individuals and families.
Cultural Engagement
Redeemer is a church that doesn’t just live for ourselves. Everything that we do is oriented toward dialoguing with and being a blessing to our neighbors who are unchurched and de-churched.
Our communication and gatherings are designed to engage and benefit those who are not Christians.
Hospitality
Redeemer seeks to be a place that is welcoming and open to anyone regardless of what they believe. We assume people who are not Christians are present at everything we do. 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, group, and non-profits in Memphis. Our hope is that a spirit of cooperation and partnership will result in greater impact for the Kingdom and 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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Catholic simply means universal. 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 stands in the tradition of the Protestant Reformation seeking to recover the teachings and practices of the early church according to Scripture.
The Centrality of Christ and the Gospel - We believe Scripture is not first about us, but rather about the person and work of Jesus Christ. The gospel is the good news that Jesus has been sent by God to rescue, redeem and restore all things.
Salvation by Faith Alone - We believe salvation is only by God’s grace, and is received solely by faith in Christ. A transformed life is the result of grace not the precondition for it.
The Inspiration and Authority of Scripture - We believe that God lovingly speaks to us in and through the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Because he does so, we believe Scripture to be trustworthy, true, and compelling for belief and life.
The Mission of the Church - God’s mission is to make all things new through Jesus Christ. Members in Christ’s church have been redeemed, are being restored, and are called to share in Christ’s healing mission.
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To be "reformed" means that our theology is shaped by the theological convictions of the Protestant Reformation (Scripture alone, faith alone, grace alone, Christ alone, for God's glory alone). Our official doctrinal statement is found in the Westminster Confession of Faith and Catechisms, a helpful summary of Biblical beliefs and practice. In addition, we are committed to a Presbyterian system of church government, which is seen in our participation in and accountability to the Presbyterian Church in America.
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