We are united primarily around the authority of the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments and secondarily around the teaching of the Nicene Creed and the Westminster Confession of Faith.
Affirmation is a local body of the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) located in Somers, NY (Westchester County). Founded in 1973, our church serves a broad geographical area, with members dispersed from Poughkeepsie, to Brooklyn, to western Connecticut. Our congregation is committed to Christ-centered preaching and faithful worship of the Triune God revealed in the Scriptures. As the people of God, we love one another and seek to use our gifts for the sake of the church and our neighbors.
WHAT WE
BELIEVE
We believe that the Bible is the inspired, infallible, and inerrant Word of the living God. It is our sole source of absolute authority, both individually and corporately.
The Bible teaches that God is holy and humankind is fallen, but in His infinite mercy and unspeakable humility, God took on our flesh to die for His creation. Jesus Christ alone is the subject and object of saving faith: His virgin birth, sinless life, miraculous works, sacrificial death, bodily resurrection, literal ascension, and physical return.
Therefore, we believe grace alone, through faith alone, because of Christ alone is our world's only source for redemption.
WE ARE
catholic
That is, we affirm the central and ancient teachings that have defined the Church of the Lord Jesus Christ through the ages - namely we are Trinitarian and affirm the two complete natures of Christ, that he is fully God and fully man who as such was born of a virgin, suffered and was crucified for our sins, was buried, rose bodily from the dead and ascended to the right hand of the Father from whence He sent his spirit on the church and will one day come again to judge the Earth.
That is, we are a Protestant congregation which affirms the doctrines of the Reformation - namely that of Sola Scriptura (scripture alone is the binding authority on the conscience of the Christian) and of Justification by Grace alone, through faith alone, and because of the righteousness of Christ alone.
We affirm the doctrines of grace, namely that our salvation is the free gift of the Sovereign God to helpless sinners and we affirm that every aspect of life, both sacred and secular are under the sovereign authority of the Lord Jesus Christ.
WE ARE
Reformed