Christ Church SF Static

Church Planter's Bio

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Toby Kurth was raised in San Diego and Monterey. He attended college at UC Davis where he graduated with a BS in Environmental Policy and Planning. While working as a consultant in the environmental industry, Toby earned his masters in historical theology from Westminster Seminary in California and has completed coursework towards a PhD in history at Stony Brook University in New York. Toby is also a graduate of Sovereign Grace Ministries’ Pastors College.

Toby met his wife, Rebekah, in college while at Davis, where she was born and raised. They have been married for 10 years and have 2 boys, age 7 and 2, and a third on the way. While in New York, Toby, Rebekah, and their boys enjoyed living in Brooklyn where they served on a church plant. Toby regularly preached, led small groups, and worked alongside the rest of the team to build a new church in the city.

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Toby Kurth, Pastor

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415.279.4862

Media

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“What Jesus Really Said and Did: 35 Claims About Jesus from the Gospel of John”

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Location

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We meet on Sundays at 10:30 AM at 856 Cabrillo Street (corner of 10th Avenue) in the Richmond District.

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Vision

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We desire to be a gospel-centered community that pursues 1) Life in Christ, 2) Life Together, and 3) Bringing Life to the City.

1) Life in Christ – Jesus Christ created and sustains all life. He came to earth so that we could experience abundant life in him. Christ is the center of God’s plan to redeem the whole world and we want him to be the center of our lives. ChristChurch will proclaim Christ and His gospel as we gather together weekly to hear the gospel preached, to sing and pray, and to share the Lord’s Supper.

2) Life Together – As followers of Christ we are called to pursue relationship with one another and to live out all of life together. We live in community because we are united together in Christ. We receive the Gospel promises individually, but we are called to live them out corporately. God gives us deep friendships and family to help us with all that we face in life. As we follow Christ and love and serve one another we put Christ’s love on display.

3) Life to the City – We will go in the power of the Holy Spirit into our neighborhoods, schools, and workplaces with a desire to bring the message of the Gospel to those who do not know Christ. We will go as Christ came to us, in love and humility with a heart to serve the City. We believe in the life-transforming power of the Gospel and will work to see that power displayed in the City as we serve practical needs and share the message of Christ.

Joining a church plant is a joyful sacrifice of time, energy, and gifts. We encourage you to prayerfully seek whether Christ is calling you to join with us in this work!

Links:

Sovereign Grace Ministries
Church Planter’s Bio

What is the Gospel?

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What is the Gospel? This is a simple, yet profound question. How you answer this question impacts how you live now and for all eternity. Take a moment to think about how you would answer that question. God’s answer begins in Genesis. God created the earth and all that is in it and it was good. Adam and Eve rebelled against God and His good rule and it was bad. But in the midst of what seemed a hopeless future for all humanity, God made a promise. God promised that through a future descendent of the woman would one day come a man that would crush the head of the serpent and redeem mankind. Evil, death, sin, oppression, rebellion and suffering would once for all be defeated. The Bible is about the person and work of Jesus Christ from start to finish. This is the central story of human history and needs to be the central story of our lives and churches. This is the gospel.

Christ has done what we could never do. He perfectly obeyed God on our behalf. Where Adam failed, Christ did not. Christ became sin for us, taking away the punishment that we had earned, so that we might stand before God as righteous and dearly loved children. As followers of Christ we have been united to him. Christ daily gives us the power to live lives that glorify God, but apart from him we are still powerless. Who Christ is and what he has done must and will transform who we are and what we do. “Faith in the gospel restructures our motivations, our self-understanding, our identity, and our view of the world. Behavioral compliance to rules without heart-change will be superficial and fleeting. The gospel is therefore not just the ABCs of the Christian life, but the A to Z of the Christian life. Our problems arise largely because we don’t continually return to the gospel to work it in and live it out.”