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Maple Avenue Church

1483 Mable Avenue
209-527-0933

Vision:

A church that is running over 1,500 in worship attendance within the next 10 years.

A church that has a preschool, learning centers for the community, after school programs and a Bible college and seminary to train future ministers of the Gospel.

A church that is engaged in intelligent dialogue with the culture and community.

A church that is baptizing over 300 people a year.

A church that is meeting needs and seeing changed lives

We Believe:

1. We believe the sixty-six books of the Old and New Testament Scripture alone to be verbally inspired by God and inerrant in the original text, and that they alone are of supreme and final authority in faith and life.

2. We believe in one God who is Creator of heaven and earth, who is infinite Spirit, light, love, and truth; eternal, almighty, infallible in all things, including His foreknowledge of all future events as well as all free choices; that He is unchangeable, all wise, just, and holy; and that the triune God eternally exists in one essence and three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

3. We believe in the special creation of the entire space-time universe and of every basic form of life in the six historic 24-hour days of the Genesis creation record. We also believe in the historicity of the biblical record, including the special creation of Adam and Eve as the literal progenitors of all people, the literal fall and resultant divine curse on the creation, the worldwide (Global) flood, and the origin of nations and diverse languages at the tower of Babel.

4. We believe in Jesus Christ, the Second Person of the Trinity, the Eternal Word manifested in the flesh. We believe that He was conceived by the Holy Spirit, born of the virgin Mary, and that He is true God and true man, having two distinct natures co-joined in one Person.

5. We believe that the Lord Jesus Christ died as a representative and substitutionary sacrifice for the sins of every human being and thus offers salvation as a free gift based on grace alone.