About Redeemer Christian Church
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Our Vision
“To fill the city of East London and beyond, with the gospel and glory of Jesus Christ”
We believe, at this stage in our church’s journey, that the Lord has called us to fill the city of East London and beyond with the gospel and glory of Jesus. The phrase comes from Acts 5:28, when the high priest says to the apostles, “We strictly charged you not to teach in this name, yet here you have filled Jerusalem with your teaching”.
Our Values
We believe we will only achieve this vision by obeying the three great commandments, all of which have love at the heart of them.
We summarise this call to obedience in three ways:
LOVING UP
Our motivation in all things is our love and delight for the Lord.
“And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” (Mark 12:30)
LOVING IN
We are called to deeply love our brothers and sisters in Christ, as modelled by Jesus.
Jesus said, “A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” (Jn 13:34-35).
LOVING OUT
We are committed to loving our neighbour, primarily through sharing the good news of Jesus as well as by meeting their physical needs.
The second great commandment in Scripture is, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself’ (Mark 12:31)
How we lead
We believe in an elder-led church. We aim to emulate the New Testament model of each local congregation being led by a team of elders (1 Timothy 3:1-7, Titus 1:5-9, 1 Peter 5:1-4, Acts 20:28-31).
Eldership Team
Matt & Marina Johnson
Lead Elder Couple
Bryce & Caitlyn Biggs
Dave & Ali Kettles
Mark & Megan Koekemoer
Mark & Anita Wood
STAFF TEAM
We have a passionate staff team who oversee our various departments.
Matt Johnson
TEAM LEADER
Debbie Hill
ADMINISTRATION & FINANCE
Mark Koekemoer
OPERATIONS
Mark Wood
PASTORAL CARE & DISCIPLESHIP
Bryce Biggs
YOUTH (GRADE 5-12)
AND YOUNG ADULTS
Nicky Fetting
CHILDREN & FAMILIES
Netéske Horton
WORSHIP & YOUTH (GRADE 5-12)
Who we partner with
We belong to the Advance Movement – a global network of churches, connected through similar doctrine, shared mission, genuine relationship and gifted leadership, committed to planting and strengthening churches.
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Redeemer Church Believes
In the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments in their original writing as fully inspired of God and accepts them as the final authority for faith and life.
In the bodily resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, His ascension into Heaven and His present life as our High Priest and Advocate.
In the personal return of the Lord Jesus Christ.
That the one true Church is the whole company of those who have been redeemed by Jesus Christ and regenerated by the Holy Spirit; that the local Church on earth should take its character from the conception of the Church spiritual and therefore that the new birth and personal confession of Christ are essentials of Church membership.
In the priesthood of all believers.
In one God, eternally existing in three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
That God created man in his own image; that man sinned and thereby incurred the penalty of death, physical and spiritual; that all human beings inherit a sinful nature which issues, in the case of those who reach moral responsibility, in actual transgression involving guilt.
That all who receive the Lord Jesus Christ by faith are born again of the Holy Spirit and thereby become children of God.
That God has ordained marriage as a heterosexual relationship between a natural man and a natural woman
In the resurrection of both the just and the unjust, the eternal blessedness of the redeemed and the eternal banishment of those who have rejected the offer of salvation.
That Jesus Christ was begotten by the Holy Spirit, born of the Virgin Mary and is True God and True Man.
That the Lord Jesus Christ died for our sins, a substitutionary sacrifice, according to the scriptures, and that all who believe in Him are justified on the ground of His shed blood.
That the Lord Jesus Christ appointed two ordinances – Baptism and the Lord’s Supper – to be observed as acts of obedience, and as a perpetual witness to the cardinal facts of the Christian faith; that Baptism by immersion of the believer in water is a confession of identification with Christ in Burial and resurrection and that the Lord’s Supper is the partaking of bread and wine as symbolical of the Saviour’s broken body and shed blood, in remembrance of His sacrificial death until He comes.