We believe that the Holy Spirit inspired all Scripture and superintended the traditional canonization process of its 66 books. We hold that both the Old Testament and the New Testament are the infallible Word of God in all matters of life and doctrine; and that the Bible is timelessly sufficient to speak to every area of the human experience as it is living and active. We believe that Scripture is the exclusive and only authority for faith and life; and that the original manuscripts are without error. It is to be believed, trusted, and put into practice.

1 Cor. 2:13; 2 Tim. 3:16; Heb. 4:12; 2 Pet. 1:21

We believe that there is One true God, the eternally self-existing “I AM”, who has revealed himself to us in three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. We believe that the persons of the Trinity are co-eternal, co-equal, and unique in function.

Ex. 3:14; Deut. 6:4; Isa. 43:10, 11; Matt. 28; Jn. 8:58; 2 Cor. 13:14

We believe that Jesus Christ is perfectly God and perfectly human. He is eternally the Second Person of the Trinity. He is a distinct person from the Father and the Holy Spirit, yet of the same substance, two natures in One person (divine and human). We believe that Jesus Christ is God of God, the Son of God, who was incarnated as a human, was born of a virgin, was crucified, was buried, was resurrected, and is seated at the right hand of God.

Mt. 1:20; Mk. 16:19; Jn. 1:1, 14; 3:16; 20:1-2; 1 Cor. 15:3-5; Hebrews 2:17; Gal. 4:4 Phil. 2:8; 1 Pet. 3:22

We believe that The Holy Spirit is divinely uncreated, eternal and worthy of worship. He is eternally the Third Person of the Trinity. He is a distinct person from the Father and the Son, God of God, sent by the Father to equip the Body of Christ with power and grace for spiritual work. In all he does, he glorifies Christ. He convicts the world of sin, regenerates sinners, and in him they are baptized into union with Christ and adopted into the family of God. The Holy Spirit is received at salvation, and assists us in our weaknesses by enabling us to live victorious, bold, Christlike lives.

Jn. 14:16-26; Rom. 8:9, 26; Eph. 4:30; 1 Cor. 12:7-11; Heb. 10:29

We believe that humankind was created in the image of God. When tempted by Satan, humanity voluntarily falling short of God’s glory and righteousness. Sin is willful transgression of the law of God and deserves death. At the fall, humankind incurred physical death and spiritual death, which is separation from God. All human beings are in union with Adam and are sinners by nature and by choice. Sin has separated humankind from God and has subjected it to his wrath.

Ge. 1:26, 27; 2:17; 3:6; Rom. 5:12-19

Fallen humanity’s hope of redemption is only possible through the shed blood of Jesus Christ and his finished work on the cross. The redemption offered to humanity through the work of Christ is a gift of grace and must be received in repentant faith, resulting in a changed life toward God, and living hope in Christ who shed his blood. Those who receive God’s offer of grace by faith are born again, justified, regenerated, adopted into the family of God, made heirs of God and joint-heirs with Christ, filled with the Holy Spirit, and are partakers of eternal life to come.

John 3:3; Acts 4:12; Eph. 1:7; Rom. 5:10; 8:14-17; 10:9-10; Titus 3:5-6

We believe that the Church is the Body of Jesus Christ, who is its Head. The Church is comprised of all those who have been justified by God’s grace through faith alone in Christ alone. The Church is manifest in local churches, whose membership should be only believers. The Church is being built up and made into the Bride of Christ, fully matured and presentable at Jesus’s Second Coming. We believe the Church is a pillar of truth to the world because of the abiding story and presence of Jesus as mediated by the Holy Spirit.

Mt. 16:18; 1 Cor. 12:13; Rom. 5:1, 5; Eph. 1:22-23; 4:11-17; 5:27; Rev. 2-3

We believe in the glorious bodily, personal, return of the Lord Jesus Christ. At the moment of his second coming, a time which is unknown by anyone except God the Father, all of his people will meet him “in the air,” transformed in glory, and and Christ will sit in judgment over the whole earth, separate the wheat from the chaff, renew the earth, and reign as King forever. We believe that God is creating a New Heavens and a New Earth where humans will dwell forever with God. The imminent coming of Christ should urge Christians toward living lives that glorify him with a fervent commitment to proclaiming the Gospel and making disciples of all nations.

Isa. 65:17; Mt. 24:30; Acts 1:11; 1 Cor. 15:50-54; 1 Thess. 4:16-17; Rev. 19:11-22:21

We believe that those who reject God’s gracious salvation in Christ alone and the forgiveness offered therein are not found in the book of Life, will be raised and judged in the resurrection of the wicked, and given over to eternal conscious punishment in the Lake of Fire along with the devil and his angels for all eternity.

Mt. 25:46; Mark 9:43-48; Rev. 19:20; 20:11- 15; 21:8

We believe God designed and ordained marriage, defining it as a covenant relationship between one man, one woman, and himself. Hence, we only recognize marriage between a biological man and a biological woman. As a result, the representatives of Tov City Church will only participate in and perform weddings and the solemnization of marriages between one man and one woman who are both Christians.

Gen. 2:24; Matt. 19:4; Eph. 5:25; 1 Pet. 3:7

We believe that from the beginning God created two separate and distinct biological sexes: male and female. Moreover, we believe that Scripture does not permit any difference between biological sex and gender identity or expression. Humankind has been created by God, and any attempt to misconstrue the difference between male/female and/or biological sex/gender identity is an attempt to self-create and is perversion of the truth - a result of sin and the fall. We also acknowledge that there are rare instances where people are born with an indiscriminate biological sex. Yet, these cases do not involve an attempt to self-create nor deny the dignity of how they were born.

Gen. 1:26-27; Matt. 19:4; Mark 10:6-7; Psalm 139:14

We believe that God loves all human beings equally and without preference or favoritism. Racism, which is prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism by an individual, community, or institution against a person or people on the basis of their membership in a particular ethnic group, is perverse and evil and is the result of sin. We believe that the authority for approaching racism is Scripture and, therefore, our approach to racism centers around such. As a result, we reject Critical Race Theory (CRT) and other systems of thinking that insist on being the authority on racism and the resolution to it.

Mk 12:31; Acts 17:26; Rom. 2:11; Rev. 7:9-10; 2 Tim. 3:16-17

We believe in unity among the essentials and liberty among nonessentials. We believe it is Christ-like to build bridges when it comes to peripheral doctrinal matters (i.e., eschatological interpretations, Calvinism/ Arminianism, etc.) rather than drawing lines of division. We do not divine over distinctive perspectives of the Christian faith. Rather we stand with all believers who hold to the fundamental core doctrines of the early church summarized in the Nicene Creed

Ps. 133:1; Acts 15:1-21; Eph. 4:3; Phi. 2:2; 2 Cor. 13:11

We believe that all human life is valuable and sacred, and that human life and full personhood begins at conception and continues until death. God created all human life, and we are charged by God with the responsibility to protect the value and dignity of human beings from the moment of conception until the moment of death. Therefore, we oppose taking vulnerable life in all forms, including abortion and euthanasia.

Gen. 1:26-27; Job 31:15; Ps. 22:10; Ps. 127:3-5; Ps. 139:13-16; Jer. 1:5; Acts 17:25

We believe that religious and civil liberty has a theological basis on the grounds that humans were created in the image of God and given certain inalienable rights. One of these rights is freedom of Christian worship. No government or state has any authority over Christian, religious practices and matters that would infringe on this right. Equally, the state must protect this right. Each Christian church should seek religious freedom, not only as its own inherent right, but as the right of other churches and religions that hold to humans being created in the image of God.

Gen. 1:27; Jn. 8:36 2 Cor. 3:17; Gal. 5:1