This dialog about the Covenant of the Ordained captures a conversation between two leaders in Pathways.

As a 17-year old kid who had recently felt God’s call into ministry, I remember sitting at a Mexican restaurant in Omaha, across the table from my pastor.

Pastors in the Alliance promise to stay healthy in their living. They make a plan to invest in their relationship with the Lord. They express how they will nurture…

When someone gets ordained as a Minister in the Alliance, that pastor signs three covenants: the Healthy Living Covenant, the Healthy Learning Covenant, and the Covenant of the Ordained.

The Alliance recently celebrated its 100th pastor being ordained through Pathways. That’s noteworthy, as the Alliance’s innovative ordination process got launched just a

Are you aware of and using your spiritual gifts like we are commanded to do in 1 Corinthians 12.1?  Have you taken a gifts test or two… or more? 

For many pastors in small churches, one word often describes their experience with church communications: overwhelming. The landscape is filled with countless options, each claiming...

One thing hasn’t changed and never will….we know who brings us tomorrow, and the next day, and the next. We know who created our world and everything in it.

As you think about this vital distinction between (a) the spiritual gift of leadership and (b) those who have a leadership effect through an equipping gift, here are a few more important considerations:

There are many in leadership positions who do not have the spiritual gift of leadership? Are they in the wrong role? Have we understood the nature of biblical leadership?

When it comes to ordination, do people go into ministry roles at predictable times in their lives? Not according to the Bible.