About Redeemer Fellowship Church

Redeemer Fellowship is a new church that was born out of a desire to glorify God by loving Him and our neighbors in ways that extend beyond the walls of a b­uilding. We are a confessional and missional Southern Baptist Church.

A confessional church is one that is united around the truths of the Gospel, and articulate those truths in writing. We find ourselves in general agreement with the historic confessions like The Apostles Creed, The Second London Confession, the Abstract of Principles and the Baptist Faith and Message 2000, also be sure to read our church’s official statement of faith.

A missional church is one th­at recognizes itself as God’s missionary people to those they live among. This means we do not see ourselves merely as those who send missionaries to other countries, but as missionaries ourselves to a unique time and place (the greater Fox Valley area in the far west suburbs of Chicago in the third millennium). As a missional church we are looking for ways to serve our community with the gospel in word and deed and are seeking to be an active part of God’s redemptive work here in our city.

A Southern Baptist Church is one that cooperates with other Baptists (SBC) to further the Kingdom of God primarily in the planting of new churches. As Southern Baptists we are truly Evangelical Christians considering ourselves a part of the larger body of Christ. We value and sing many of the historic Methodist hymns by Charles Wesley. We read and stand in agreement with Christians from many traditions like Martin Luther [Lutheran], John Calvin [Reformed], Jonathan Edwards [Congregational] and John Bunyan [Baptist]. We champion earnest, biblical, theological preaching in the traditions of George Whitefield [Methodist] and Charles Spurgeon [Baptist]. And though we are closely tied to the history of Christ’s church we also affirm many of the top modern theologians and scholars like D.A. Carson, R.C. Sproul, Wayne Grudem, John Piper and others.

As Southern Baptists we are not reclusive fundamentalists who fear culture, rather we are Evangelicals who seek to engage our culture through the Gospel of Christ.