What convictions make Redemption Hill distinctly what it is? The most obvious answer is to look at our doctrinal commitments (link coming). These commitments are summaries of what we believe the Bible teaches about God, humanity, salvation, the Bible, the world and so on. But in every time and place, a church has to determine how the doctrinal commitments are to be embodied and applied to real people living in the real world where the church exists.
These embodied beliefs are often called core values. We have chosen to frame our core values into action statements. These are the things that go with us wherever we go because they are woven into the fabric of our being. If we are not careful, values can become theoretical and not practical; disembodied and not embodied; evaluated and not applied. To guard against this, we have framed our values as actions or distinctives that we hope to be increasingly recognized by.