Thank you so much for visiting our website! We have some wonderful news to share that can turn strangers into friends and enemies into families. We aim to live out this message by treating everyone with the love and kindness Jesus showed the world. We also want to share this life-changing news with others so they can experience it for themselves.
We warmly invite you to join us for our Sunday worship services at 10 a.m., regardless of your beliefs, to hear the best news ever. We can’t wait to welcome you!
FAQ
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Our regular Sunday services are at 10 a.m. on the third floor of Esther Solitaire, Kothanur, Bangalore. Landmark: Above FDN Fitness and opposite Kristu Jayanti College.
People usually dress in outdoor casual, semi-casual, or business casual attire. You’ll fit right in as long as your outfit is culturally appropriate and not distracting.
You should find ample bike parking in the basement or car parking on the empty plot down the road. One of our welcome team volunteers will greet you, hand you the worship guide for the Sunday service, and direct you to a seat. If it’s your first time, you will also receive a connect card to let us know how we can serve you.
We aim for our worship services to feel like a formal meeting with our Maker and Redeemer, blending togetherness and reverence. Using a worship guide, or “liturgy,” helps us maintain this balance. As the leader guides us through the service, we experience unity by singing, confessing our sins, receiving God’s forgiveness and love, hearing the Word preached, and being sent out in Christ’s name—all together.
Yes! While we believe parents are the primary teachers of their children, the church is committed to assisting in their discipleship. We plan to start concurrent classes for children and adults soon. Depending on the children’s age range regularly attending our services, we may also offer age-specific classes.
Jesus said, “Let the little children come to me” (Matthew 19:14). We believe Jesus intended the Lord’s Day gathering to include everyone, including children. Therefore, we encourage parents to bring their children to worship with the covenant community. We welcome the soft coos of babies and the gentle shushing of parents.
For your convenience, we offer a mother’s room for infants equipped with comfortable chairs for feeding and a nursery with play toys to accommodate their mobility and development. Both rooms are connected to the service via speakers, allowing nursing mothers and attending parents to hear the gospel.
Redeemer Church was initially envisioned in 2013 when New City Fellowship was preparing for launch in Central Bangalore. New City Fellowship has professedly been a church-planting church from the start. With church planting at the very heart of New City Fellowship and a considerable number of its worshippers from North Bangalore—together with the changing demographics and growing needs in North Bangalore—Redeemer Church was given birth by New City Fellowship in 2024. As such, we are indebted to New City Fellowship for its heart for gospel centrality and focus on church planting. These are at the core of Redeemer’s heart as well. Together, we hope to plant other churches in the cities of India with a focus on Bangalore.
Jesus has commissioned his church to create local communities of his disciples. These are communities that worship God, fellowship with one another, help in need those on the inside and outside, and advance his disciple-making mission. As his disciples, we want to obey his commission. Some of our beliefs about evangelism, mission and church planting can be found in the statement put together by various churches called the Southgate Fellowship.
With over 50% of Bangalore’s population comprised of migrants, there is a growing need for gospel-preaching churches to be planted in Bangalore where disciples of Christ can be made and matured.
Redeemer is Protestant and Reformed. As Protestants, we align with gospel churches that uphold ecumenical creeds like the Apostles’ Creed and the Nicene Creed, believe the Bible is the sole foundation for our beliefs and practices, and hold the gospel as God’s message of rescue from sin and death through faith in Jesus. A summary of our Protestant faith can be found in the Lausanne Covenant.
Redeemer is Reformed. We belong to the Reformed tradition within the various Protestant traditions. So, in our worship, we emphasize the Bible, the sacraments—baptism and communion—and prayer as the means by which God draws and strengthens his people. As a Reformed church, we are governed by elders; we are Presbyterian. Christ exercises his rule in the church through elders tasked to preach Christ (1 Timothy 5:17) and to oversee his sheep’s wellbeing (1 Peter 5:1). Our elders meet the criteria of 1 Timothy 3:1-7 and Titus 1:6-9. We are part of the Presbyterian Church in India – Reformed, linked with other like-minded elder-governed churches to whom Redeemer’s elders are accountable. For a detailed overview of what we believe, see The Westminster Standards.
We practice open communion. Anyone who has been baptised, professed faith in Christ, and is a member of a church that adheres to the ecumenical creeds like the Apostles’ Creed or Nicene Creed is welcome to take Communion with us. We understand the realities of living in a global city where your travels may bring you to us for one or two Lord’s Days. We do not want to hinder any believing visitor from participating in communion with us and enjoying Christ’s grace in the sacrament. However, we would love to meet you if you come early, allowing us the joy of partaking in communion with you not just as a believing visitor but as an acquainted brother or sister.
Every believer and their children are part of the body of Christ. Becoming a church member is a joyful public declaration of your faith in Christ. While the Bible doesn’t outline a formal membership process, church membership naturally follows from a commitment to follow Christ alongside His people. It encourages members to dedicate time and resources to love one another, grow personally and spiritually, receive guidance from elders, and embrace opportunities for meaningful service to those who live by Redeemer’s values. A different way to think about church membership is partnership. Unlike club members who give financially to receive benefits, church members are partners in the gospel, labouring to outgive one another in love and service.
You become a church member either by baptism, if you are a new believer or a child of a believer, or by transfer from another church. Either way, there is a membership class twice a year. Stay tuned for our announcements.
Fill out our Connect Card on Sunday and leave it with a member of the Welcome Team. Or contact us and someone from Redeemer will get back to you soon.
The term ‘gospel’ means ‘good news.’ Good news assumes that there is bad news. The bad news is that although God created us and our world very good in a manner that accurately reflects his goodness, we do not live in such a world. Our first parents—Adam and Eve—sinned against God by disobeying him, violated his perfect and holy nature, broke our relationship with him altogether, and brought death into this world. Relational conflict, emotional struggles, physical disabilities, injustice, and loss of loved ones are evidence of our broken relationship with God. Another indication is the rather painful reality that each of us violates God’s character daily; we sin. All offences must face the law and receive a just punishment. We must meet God as the judge, and his verdict upon all of us reads, “Condemned.”
The good news is the story of God’s great rescue of those condemned. God, who exists as three distinct persons, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, persevered against our sin and made a pact with one another to accomplish peace between us. In fulfilment of this plan, God the Son became a human being 2000 years ago. History identifies him as Jesus Christ. He lived the life we are unable to live by reflecting God’s moral character perfectly. He died the death we deserved by taking upon himself his hatred against our moral failures to reflect God’s righteous character, i.e., our sins. He did this so that in rising from the dead we can have peace with God. Now, because God’s verdict of condemnation has fallen on Jesus for those who trust him for rescue, our verdict reads, “Righteous.” Not only does Jesus give us the hope of a clean record with God, but through Jesus, we also receive the gift of adoption where God calls us his beloved children. The new status that those who trust in Jesus receive is an eternal gift, meaning we will be in the Father’s house beyond death, enjoying a new life in a new creation free from sin and death forever. This is good news. This is the gospel. Redeemer Church’s desire is for as many people to enjoy this relationship with God and with one another.
Have more questions? Get in touch with someone from Redeemer Church.