Membership

If you’re looking to make Redemption your Church Home and are wanting to become a member, please fill out our Membership Application.

What is Church Membership?

This was a one-off sermon dedicated to looking at the why, the what, and the how of Church membership. To become a member at Redemption Bible Chapel, first you’ll need to attend a Step 2 class. Once you’ve done that, your next step is to fill out one of the forms below.

Looking to make Redemption your Church Home?

Steps to take before applying for membership:

 

✓  Water baptism by immersion as a believer
✓  Complete Step 2
✓  Attend Redemption for at least six months
✓  Be part of a group*
✓  Be Serving**
✓  When the steps above are complete, fill out the membership application below.

 

* Be involved in a Redemption Small Group, Men’s or Women’s ministry, Young Adult Small Group, HOST group, or one of our classes. Alternatively, show evidence of regular participation in Christian community for growth and discipleship beyond the Sunday Worship Service (i.e. campus Bible study, one-on-one discipleship or mentoring, Christian book club, etc.).

 

** Serving on a Redemption team or in process of joining a team or serving in some Christian parachurch ministry or another service area outside our church, such as caring for a special needs child, an evangelism ministry, etc.

Please enable JavaScript in your browser to complete this form.
Step 1 of 7

Note: this form will take approximately 20-30 minutes to complete.

Membership Application

If you’re looking to make Redemption your Church Home and desire to become a member, please fill out our Membership Application. If you have more than one person in your household interested in membership – please have each individual fill out their own application. Please note that members must be 18 years of age or older.

* Indicates required question

Membership Commitment

Redemption exists to Glorify God through the fulfillment of the Great Commission (Matthew 28:18-20), in the spirit of the Great Commandment (Matthew 22:37-39).

A disciple of Jesus Christ is one who abides with Jesus, connects with fellow believers, and shares with the family of God and others, in the name of Christ. These things are what our mission and purpose are.

Therefore, those who wish to become members at Redemption are asked to confirm the following:
1. I have by faith confessed with my mouth that Jesus is Lord and believed in my heart that God raised him from the dead (Romans 10:9) and thus am a follower of Jesus Christ.
2. I have been baptized by immersion after I was saved (Acts 2:38).
3. God Time – I commit to consistently spend time in the Word and prayer with Christ as a discipline in my own personal walk with Jesus (Psalm 119:11).
4. Gather Time – I commit to regularly attend worship services, when able, participating in the life and practices of our church on Sundays (Hebrews 10:24-25).
5. a) Group Time – I commit, as best I am able and when I am able, to make it a priority to be a part of a group ministry in the church, to help my own growth and to be praying for and encouraging other believers (Acts 2:42-47).
6. Go Time – I commit to seek to normalize evangelism in my everyday life, desirous to be telling others the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ, when opportunities arise (Acts 1:8).
7. a) Give Time – I commit to give: 1) of the first fruits of my income, joyfully and regularly to the ministry of Redemption, seeking to help support and advance the gospel here (2 Corinthians 9:6-15) and 2) of my time and energy in serving somewhere in the ministry of Redemption.
8. I recognize that in joining this local family of God in membership, I am committing to continually seek to preserve the unity of the faith (Ephesians 4:3) and not to be a divisive influence in the church (Titus 3:10), respecting and submitting to the leadership God has put in place (Hebrews 13:17). Should I violate the Scripture, in word or deed, I understand Redemption is committed to practicing Galatians 6:1-4 and Matthew 18:15-17. This means, if in wilful sin, I may be approached and dealt, by the elders, in a church discipline process, with a goal of repentance and restoration.
9. I have read and can agree to be a member in this church within the Redemption statement of faith and distinctives.


*Note: Redemption Bible Chapel holds to, in faith and practice, a Biblical understanding of marriage (one man married to one woman), and to a Biblical understanding that God created male and female, only two genders, and that these are fixed by DNA and do not change.*
10. I have attended the Step 2 class.