C&MA DNA
Alliance founder Dr. A. B. Simpson articulated the core "theology" of the C&MA many years ago. He called it the Fourfold Gospel, and it's all about Jesus—our Savior, Sanctifier, Healer, and Coming King. One of Simpson's life verses contains these words: "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). In Simpson’s hymn, "Himself," he put it this way—"Everything in Jesus, And Jesus everything!" So our focus is on the Living One, God's perfect Son.

Our core values flow out of our passion for Jesus:

• Lost people matter to God. He wants them found.
• Prayer is the primary work of God's people.
• Everything we have belongs to God. We are only stewards.
• Knowing and obeying God’s Word is fundamental to all true success.
• Completing the Great Commission will require the mobilization of every fully devoted disciple.
• Without the empowerment of the Holy Spirit, we can accomplish nothing.
• Achieving God's purposes involves taking faith-filled risks. This always involves change.

What we believe determines what we value, and what we value evidences itself in how we live. But what determines how we choose between the good and the best? Those decisions are made by understanding our approach to advancing God's Kingdom. We have developed two overarching strategies:

• Living the Call Together
• Planting prevailing churches among the least-reached people of the world

What is the C&MA DNA?

• Our Christology . . . what we believe about Jesus
• Our core values . . . how we live our beliefs
• Our strategies . . . how we decide what we’ll do together as a movement for God

—John Soper to support the work of Alliance churches and missionaries around the world.