Reformed Church in America (RCA)

Loop Church belongs to the Reformed Church in America (RCA) and a member of the City Classis, an affinity classis of churches in urban areas that share an ecclesial missiology.

The RCA

The Reformed Church in America began as a small gathering In the colonial town of New Amsterdam (today's New York City) in 1628. Today, the RCA includes 300,000 people across North America.

The RCA believes what all Christians believe. First and foremost, we believe the affirmation, "Jesus is Lord" (1 Cor.12:3), the earliest of New Testament Creeds. The final authority in the Reformed faith is Holy Scripture, the living Word of God, spoken to everyone through the Holy Spirit of God. The Holy Spirit takes the Word of God and makes it real and actual in our lives. This has always been and will always be the authentic wellspring of Reformed faith.

The Reformed Church in America (RCA) is a confessional church. This means that, as a denomination, we affirm specific statements of belief called creeds and confessions. These statements are biblically based and were written to respond to issues by explaining in detail what the church believes about those topics. Along with most Christian churches, the RCA affirms three creeds that were written in the first few centuries after Jesus’s death: the Apostles’ Creed, the Nicene Creed, and the Athanasian Creed.

Four statements of belief, known in the RCA as Standards of Unity, express what the Reformed Church believes: the Heidelberg Catechism, the Belgic Confession, the Canons of Dort, and the Confession of Belhar. In 1978, the RCA approved Our Song of Hope as a contemporary statement of faith.

CITY CLASSIS

The City Classis holds the shared purpose of cultivating and nurturing an environment where spiritual renewal, innovative ministry and leadership development results in healthy and reproducing urban churches.

The mission of the City Classis to suppor churches in the practices of missional ecclesiology with urban contexts through classis as denominational partner serving the broader denomination and church through classis as covenant body communing together in covenant relationship through classis as formational community growing as a community dependent on Christ through classis as resource pool sharing ideas and reducing operational redundancy through classis as diversely gifted network identifying and leveraging the unique gifts among us so that local churches

thrive for the sake of the world

reflect, respect, and cultivate the diversity of God's kingdom

are equipped with leaders and tools for ministry. 

In March 2018, City Classis adopted the Framework for Life Together in the midst difference around issues of human sexuality.