We are open but cautious regarding the gift of tongues in the Church, We believe in church discipline as outlined in the Scriptures for the protection of the church body and the working of Gods purpose in our lives knowing that God works all things out for good for those who love him (, We are not liberals who embrace culture without discernment and compromise that distinctives of the gospel, but rather Christians who believe the truths of the bible are eternal and therefore fitting for every time, place and people, We are not fundamentalists who retreat from cultural involvement and transformation, but rather missionaries faithful both to the content of the bible and context of ministry, We are not isolationists and seek to partner with like minded Christians from various churches, denominations and organisations in planting church planting churches, We are not hyper-Calvinists, but rather pray, evangelise, and do good works because we believe that the sovereign plan of God is accomplished through us, his people, We are not egalitarians and do believe that men should head their homes and male elders/pastors should lead the church with masculine love like Jesus Christ, We are not Open Theists but believe in the sovereignty and foreknowledge of God in all things, We are not religious relativists and we do believe that there is no salvation apart from faith in Jesus Christ alone, We are not moralists, only seeking to help people live good lives, but instead evangelists labouring that people would become new creations in Christ, We are not relativists and do gladly embrace the bible as our highest authority above such things as culture, experience, philosophy and other forms of revelation, We are not Universalists and do believe that many people will spend eternity in the torments of hell as the bible teaches, We are not naturalists and do believe that Satan and demons are real and are enemies at work in this world and subject to God, We are not rationalists and do believe that not everything can be known but that God calls us to live by faith with mystery and partial knowledge regarding many things, We are not Christian Feminists and do believe that God reveals Himself as a Father and is to be honoured by the names He revels to us without apology, We are not embarrassed by the bloody death of Jesus Christ and do believe He died as a substitute for the sins of His people in selfless love (, We are not ashamed and do proclaim a loving gospel of grace which sounds like foolishness and offensive to the unrepentant while saving multitudes with the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, We are not Hyper-Pentecostals and do not psychologise, moralise the gospel nor do we adhere to the philosophies of the health, wealth and prosperity gospel which is no gospel at all. BBC - Religions - Christianity: The basics of Christian beliefs We believe that one male and one female entering into a lifelong, procreative, and covenantal union (marriage) is specifically designed to reflect the covenantal love between Christ and his bride The Church. The path of authentic discipleship commands a lifetime of following. We have three documents that summarize what we believe, and how we intend to live our lives with each other at RBC - (1) the Statement of Faith , (2) the Covenant , and (3) the Church Constitution . Or check out the 'what we believe' tab. The Latin word filioque, which means "and from the son", was gradually inserted by Western churches into the Nicene Creed so that it stated that the Holy Spirit proceeds not from the God the Father alone, as the early Church Fathers believed, but from both God the Father and God the Son. That's fine, as long as they remember that the whole truth of the nature of God is simply beyond them. Many Christians see the relationship between the persons of the Trinity as providing a recipe for the best sort of human relationships. On the one hand, we know that church planting is not everything that is needed. We are committed to worship that is both rooted in Scripture and empowered by the Spirit. (2 Timothy 2:2), Believing firmly in the power of prayer. Our foundational core value is the gospel. Our commitment to community is fleshed out in several contexts. The Lord your Redeemer suffered death in the flesh, D&C 18:11. In all things love." - St. Augustine We are seeking to live out a thoughtful orthodoxy, committed to unity in essentials, freedom in non-essentials, and love of one another in all things. We believe that on the contrary the two, at their best, are integral for grasping the meaning . We are committed to relationships that are both loving and truth-telling. We believe salvation to be the gift of God, given to man as an act of grace, received solely by faith alone in Christ alone. How we understand true and right is found in the ancient creeds of the church (e.g., Apostles, Nicene) and the Protestant Reformed confessions (e.g., Westminster Confession and catechisms). We are committed to worship that engages both the mind and the heart. God is unchangeable in his holiness, justice, wisdom and love. The Redeemer family of churches and ministries exists to help build a great city for all people through a movement of the gospel that brings personal conversion, community formation, social justice, and cultural renewal to New York City and, through it, the world. 3:24; 1 Peter 2:24; Eph. Christianity: Basic Beliefs | URI (1) The gathered congregation is the primary context for worship, corporate edification, and rooting us as a church in the truth of the gospel. It is made visible in local churches, which are congregations of believers who are committed to each other for the worship of God, the preaching of the Word, the administering of Baptism and the Lords Supper; for pastoral care and discipline, and for evangelism. We are committed to reaching the unreached peoples of the world. There are two ways of looking at God in Trinitarian terms: The Economic and Essential Trinities are not two separate entities - just two ways of looking at God. Christians believe that Jesus died for humanity, that God raised him from the dead, and that Jesus will come again at the end of time. Email: sean@redeemerchurch.co.nz Listen to a sermon about Redeemers core value, Serving: The gospel does not only have implications for our private life and Christian relationships. We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testaments to be the full record of Gods self-disclosure to mankind. To answer this question, Pastor Jonathan examines Romans 8:28-30 and Article 17 of the 39 Articles of Religion. We believe in the return of Jesus Christ to judge the living and the dead. The Lord Jesus Christ will return in glory. Find the date for Trinity Sunday 2014 in the multifaith calendar. 14:10; 2 Peter 3:7ff. Then the relationships stimulate all parties and the overall the Body of Christ in a city grows faster than the populationwithout a central, top-down, control center. These basic doctrinal beliefs represent what we believe to be core elements of Biblical teaching and what we hold firmly to as a church. The theologian Leonardo Boff described perichoresis as "the intimate and perfect inhabitation of one Person in the other," meaning that the three persons of the Trinity live in and relate to each other perfectly. Beliefs. So what does that all mean? Explore ways to serve at Redeemer Fellowship on Sunday mornings. Scripture is fully trustworthy as our final and only sufficient authority for all of life (2 Timothy 3:16-17; 2 Peter 1:20-21). 3:6; 1 Cor.12:1214; Rom. 5:18). And when he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit". Listen to a sermon about Redeemers core value, Renewal: Redeemer has always been especially concerned to welcome the secular, non-believing Manhattanite. (2) Locally, we want to share the saving word of the gospel of Christ, while demonstrating his love through deeds. 13:14). Humanity met God in three different forms: The Bible taught that Christians were to worship Father and Son and Holy Spirit. The doctrine of the Trinity is one of the most difficult ideas in Christianity, but it's fundamental to Christians because it: The idea that there is One God, who is Father, Son, and Holy Spirit means: Christianity adopted this complicated idea of God because it was the only way they could make sense of One God in the context of the events and teaching of the Bible. redeemer. Every word was inspired by God through human authors, so that the Bible as originally given is in its entirety the Word of God, without error and fully reliable in fact and doctrine. Many church historians think that the Western wing of the Church did behave very badly by trying to introduce such a major change to Christian belief in such a cavalier way. These three persons have equal status and are equally divine. The Holy Spirit has been sent from heaven to glorify Christ and to apply his work of salvation. 1:7, 2:810; John 1:12; 1 Peter 1:1819). We affirm the theological commitments and theological vision for ministry expressed in. Are these two the same? Catherine LaCugna, God For Us: The Trinity and the Christian Life. This is a high priority of Redeemer. They say there is a mutual indwelling of the persons of the Trinity. The infant community met an obstacle in the royal court of Naples, which tried to exercise complete control over the order. 28-19-20). var u1028491468="info"; var h1413215109="redeemerbible.church";var linktext=u1028491468+'@'+h1413215109;document.write('' + linktext + ''); 2023 Redeemer Bible Church. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The Lords Supper is a commemoration of Christs sacrifice offered once for all and involves no change in the bread and wine. He encounters the unredeemed in repentance and faith, and at salvation imparts new spiritual life to the believer, bringing that person into union with Christ and the Body of Christ. We believe Jesus is the eternal Son of God. About Us Redeemer Church Manchester The gospel is the good news of what God has done in the death and resurrection of Jesus and the gift of the Spirit to redeem sinful humanity and restore the fallen creation. People often make this mistake because they misunderstand the use of the word "persons" in defining the Trinity; it does not mean that Father, Son and Holy Spirit are three separate personalities. A bookseller of religious texts may believe it can refuse to sell books to a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints because he doesn't believe it to be a legitimate religion . Therefore, we affirm the following points; For further detail see the following page here. This is the idea that each of the persons of the Trinity shares completely in the life of the other two. What Do Reformational Anglicans Believe About Election? | FITC54 In this the members communicate with each other in a spirit of love that accepts responsibility for the well-being of each individual and that of the whole community. You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men. c/o Sean Fleming In non-essentials liberty. Thus the Trinity shows the way God wants the world to be run and the power structures that he recommends to human society. The Eastern wing of the Church believed and believes that the Father alone had given rise to the Holy Spirit, and the idea that both Father and Son had done so was condemned as heretical. Redeemer has always sought to be a place where doubters felt their questions were noticed and taken seriously. Actors playing a part in a play do so in relationship to other members of the cast, and a key element of the doctrine of the Trinity is that the three persons of the Trinity are in relationship with one another. The Churches were arguing about whether the Son played any part in the origin of the Spirit as one of the persons of the Trinity from the Father, who is the only ultimate source. There were fundamental problems of authority as well as of doctrine. (Colossians 4:2), Sharing the Good News of Jesus with boldness (Eph. So the gospel creates a new kind of community. Our Beliefs Core Theology "In essentials unity. So Christians don't try to understand the doctrine of the Trinity logically or as a problem of arithmetic. There is one God. They used it to promote the ideal human society as a closely related and unified group of equal people living so as to promote the good of society as a whole. What We Believe | Redeemer Church He builds up the Church and empowers its members for worship, service and mission. We believe that, in the beginning, God created mankind in His own image and likeness, male and female, free of sin, to glorify Himself and enjoy His fellowship (Genesis 2:24; Matthew 19:4-6; Mark 10:7-8). Our identity. A movement requires above all a kingdom (rather than a tribal) mindset on the part of the Christians of the city, produced (as usual!) The unity of the body of Christ is expressed within and between churches by mutual love, care and encouragement. The American theologian Catherine LaCugna suggested that the doctrine of the Trinity helps humanity answer the question. 2 Corinthians 5:21. We believe that Jesus Christ, the eternal Son, moved by love in accordance with the will of the Father, took on human flesh (John 1:1, 14, 18). Redeemer Fellowship Hub The gospel makes us contextualizerstoo humbled to make an idol out of our old culture, but too affirmed and loved to need the approval of the new one. Unfortunately, modern theological translations of the word "persons" into phrases such as "distinct manners of subsisting" don't make things much clearer (and that particular phrase, as it happens, sounds very like the heresy of modalism). The gospel, then, in multiple ways leads us to prize community and we aim to, whenever possible, do things through organic community and lay ministry rather than through staff-led programs. City to City is our means for accomplishing this. ABOUT OUR FAITH Lutherans believe that they are a part of a faith community. We are committed to reaching out in both word (evangelism) and deed (justice and mercy). But Redeemer has from the beginning seen its mission extending to the other great global cities of the world, where we partner with national leaders to plant churches and gospel movements. It also taught that Christians should only worship God. It is made up of all true believers in the Lord Jesus Christ. But human beings don't have any other language available, so they have to do the best that they can with it. 16:27; Luke 12:40,48; 16:19-26; Acts 1:11; 17:31; Rom. It is crucial that a large percentage of Christians come into Redeemer and think, I wish my non-Christian friend could hear this. While Redeemer will always grow by attracting already-Christians in, that is not our intended way to grow, and a strong outward face will guarantee that newly arrived Christians are mobilized to reach out to the city. But "person" to modern people means, at the very least, a separate centre of consciousness, and more usually, an individual human being. We believe in one holy, catholic (universal), and apostolic church, and affirm with the historic church the early ecumenical creeds: The Apostles Creed (second century), The Nicene Creed (381 AD), The Definition of Chalcedon (451 AD), and The Athanasian Creed (c. 500 AD). The Motto "God Our Father, Christ Our Redeemer, the Holy Spirit Our Comforter, Humankind Our Family" is a great summary of what the African Methodist Episcopal Church believes. Its purpose is not to provide factual knowledge of God's hidden nature of the sort that describes a dog as "having 4 legs, fur, barks, bites, domesticated by humankind etc". We dont hate the city or romanticize itwe love the city, we have a vision for what it could be, and we are here to seek its well being for all its people. Before trying to understand the doctrine of the Trinity, it's vital to realise why it's important. About Us: . Redeemer Church is Protestant and Reformed in that we affirm the five solas of Reformed theology: Sola Scriptura (Scripture Alone), Sola Gratia (Grace Alone) Sola Fide (Faith Alone), Solus Christus (Christ Alone), and Soli Deo Gloria (To the Glory of God Alone).
