Values and Vision

In a culture filled with distractions and desires that often drift towards lethargic, comfort-driven stagnancy, we encourage each other as co-creators of an awe-inspiring counter-cultural movement. This movement reflects the divine artist in us all; by creating generative moments and regenerative spaces, we hope to be catalysts for spiritual and artistic growth, strengthening the bonds of community and leading the culture toward pursuing art as a necessary expression of God's love. Redeemer Worship strives to be a place where our specialized skills and talents are identified, edified, and finely tuned. Our identities are further affirmed as adopted sons and daughters of God.

To achieve this, we employ timeless values of truth, goodness, beauty, togetherness, and discipleship to guide goals and seed our plans. In all things, we seek to maintain a wonder, evoking fear of the Lord and trusting Him to make our paths straight.

TRUTH

We believe that Jesus is preeminent above all things and that the word of God rules over our lives. We want to be a people characterized by our affection for Jesus. We believe the Bible is God's inerrant Word and must be central to everything we do. We aim to display Jesus in our character by living Godward, gospel lives. As best we can, we work to integrate our heart, mind, soul, and strength. We lead and live from our whole selves, messy parts included; we do not live divided lives. We don’t have facades or masks that we wear on stage to hide behind.

In John 4, Christ tells the woman at the well that the Father seeks worshipers who will worship Him "in Spirit and in truth." Our most important task is to diligently and faithfully present the gospel truth to our people. Musical worship exists for God. It is primarily a way in which the church blesses our Creator—to bring Him pleasure and show Him honor. If our worship is for God, it is of paramount importance that we worship in ways that please Him, and thus "in Spirit and truth." God delights in our joy as we worship Him, as well as in hearing the gospel of Christ proclaimed explicitly and faithfully. It is the gospel that changes lives, not the music. Therefore, we must diligently " teach what accords with sound doctrine" (Titus 2:1 ESV).

GOODNESS

Hebrews 12 closes with a wonderful plea for us, as Christ-exalting believers, to be equipped with everything good so that we may do his will. This directly points to the work that Christ does in and through us. But we also believe that through the continual sanctification of the spirit, part of that equipping is done through us seeking wisdom and discernment. The term ‘goodness’ should inspire us to dig deeper into the mysteries of Christ and fuel us to search and know him.

BEAUTY

Aware of God’s beauty and glory at the center of all gatherings, our cynicism, suffering, or sadness shifts to beholding God's beauty. We value excellence, offering our best to delete distractions while aiming to glorify God; we cheer each other on and outdo one another in showing honor. We aim to be teachable, humbling ourselves as constant learners.  Deferring to siblings in Christ out of showing honor. We believe that creating excellent and compelling art opens doors to be light in dark places in our city. We, as sons and daughters of the living God, image-bearers of the Creator, and the very handiwork of God, have the most compelling reason to create beautiful and excellent artistic expression inside and outside the walls of our gathering places. We want our work to point to the excellencies of Jesus.  In doing so, we have an invitation to be the aroma of Christ to those who don’t yet know their Creator.

TOGETHERNESS

In the New Testament, the Greek word translated "hospitality" literally means "love of strangers." Hospitality is an act of worship, a response to a hospitable God Who cared for and sought out a people who didn’t care for Him. We, as beneficiaries of His hospitality, want to be a people constantly going out of our way to strive for togetherness.

Western civilization, often looking through the individualized lens, misses the value of a gathered people. Biblically speaking, we are entrusting ourselves to an authority outside of ourselves.  Community demands friendship and knowing, conflict and forgiveness, and is fundamentally not transactional in nature. But when we invest our time together, we reap the benefit and payment of care, love, and friendship. We seek togetherness, like singing prophets on a journey together, sharing our stories and embracing one another in vulnerability.

DISCIPLESHIP

We multiply leadership, and we help each other move closer toward who God made us to be as true worshipers. Striving to hold spirit and truth in both hands, we pursue Jesus and encourage one another to stay the course and weather the storm. We give away responsibility, letting God stretch us before we think we’re ready.