Senior Pastor Testimony
Why I’m thankful for serving with The Alliance…
- I am the son of an Alliance pastor.
- My childhood and teenage home was the campus of an Alliance college, which I later attended.
- An Alliance seminary granted me a graduate degree.
- I first ministered to students in an Alliance church.
- Two of my children were born while serving as an Alliance church-planter in Bangkok, Thailand.
- I served the Alliance Christian Fellowship on campus at Penn State University.
- And now I lead to equip a growing Alliance congregation of Jesus-followers in York, PA.
But none of these are the primary reasons why I am thankful to be serving with the Christian and Missionary Alliance. Heritage comes and goes with the daily obituaries.
In a culture where personal preference is the watchword and consumerism is the rule (even in the church), in a generation when multiple options can present such constant and reasonable distractions, I am grateful to be serving as a pastor in The Alliance because of the focused core values it pursues. The distinctives of The Alliance are not better than other organizations; but they guarantee eternal results. As a pastor in The Alliance, I am constantly prodded to nurture a ministry heart that embraces the supremacy and sufficiency of Jesus Christ and the need of a lost world to know Him. Those two priorities burned in the heart of our founder, A. B. Simpson, and continue today as a foundational impetus to every Alliance undertaking, local to global.
Serving with The Alliance means joining a growing host of Jesus-embracing, globally compassionate servants that are being used to produce fruit—fruit that will last. I encourage you to consider fulfilling God’s call on you life in The Alliance. —;David King
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