A message from Michael Mooney, NACM President: 

Here is a short version of an otherwise very long story of the NACM

This day marks the birth of so many things in ministry.  I recall the beginning of 2009.  I had finished my Bachelor’s Degree in Religion from Liberty University.  I thought God was calling me to be a pastor.  That was what motivated me to further my education.  After all, I have served as an evangelist, associate pastor, and at the time, I had been pastoring a church for 2 years.  Yet I felt something else was stirring in my spirit, and frankly I was feeling discouraged about the direction God had for me.  I resigned as the pastor of the church (because I believe it was God’s will, but I did not yet understand it).  I felt like I did when I first answered my calling.  It was like I was starting over.  I suddenly felt like I did not know what God was calling me to do.  Yet, it was clear that He made a way for me to continue my education. So I enrolled in graduate school for an MBA. 

During that time, I continued my daily walks with God in the early mornings.   I remember spending 3 days arguing with God about not having a clear direction.  He permitted me to act like a spoiled child, asking why He even sent me to school in the first place.  I know how immature that sounds, but I am human.  Because He disciplines those He loves, He made that very clear to me.  On the 3rd day of the complaining prayers, it all of a sudden hit me.  The vision that God wants to unite the Body of Christ.  This is far from an original idea.  Scripture makes it obvious that God wants He people united.  However, He was laying on my heart, a non-typical approach to encouraging, establishing, equipping, and validating that unity.

It was almost like a daydream.  I saw a vision of so many people God was calling to ministry.  It was a perspective of people from all over the world, having vast interests, backgrounds, cultures, influences, traditions, educations, and the lack thereof expressing a burning desire to answer His call.  People who were losing sleep over it, fasting for it, and disrupted by the focus that ministry was all that mattered in understanding their purposes in the pursuit of pleasing God with their lives.  

I saw the Heresy of Nicolaitanism, which comes from “two Greek words: niko, meaning “to conquer, or overthrow,” and laos, meaning ‘the people or the laity.’…. They tried to establish an ecclesiastical order.  This latter heresy is known as “Nicolaitanism.”  This is an unscriptural idea that causes the church to become enslaved by one man or small group of men whose spiritual life can determine the spiritual success of the church.” (Lahaye, Revelation illustrated, p. 26).  The pride of men who should be shepherds, but rather were obstructors to ministry and the unity of the church.  They were holding ministers back, pushing them down, and telling them to sit (rather than go).  They were building their own kingdoms rather than that of the Kingdom of God, which is at the root of all lack of unity. Furthermore, they should be empowering believers to serve our God in ministry.  Many of you know about what I am speaking.  The typical, pastor telling people things like to following:

Men, who have been divorced, are disqualified from pastoring a church “because they must be the husband of one wife.” 

Women can not be pastors, preachers, or teachers in the church, and to do so would be to usurp the authority of men. 

Come and submit to my spiritual covering.  And if you don’t, you are rebellious and God is not in it. 

Other Forms of Anti Unity Dividing the Body of Christ

It is important to attend a “Bible believing church.”  As if other churches don’t believe the Bible.  Very insulting to other believers.

Preaching to beware of believers who do not conduct church like the “Bible believing ones…”

Beware of any other translation of the Bible that is not the KJV 1611.

Beware of other believes who do not express their worship by strictly singing from red hymnals, and heaven forbid is someone claps or raises their hands.

And the list can go on and on…

Jesus said to the church at Ephesus: Yet this you have: you hate the works of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. (Rev 2:6 ESV).

Jesus said this to the church at Pergamum: So also you have some who hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans. (Rev 2:15 ESV).

This must be important for Christ to mention it twice in the same chapter and to say that he hates it!  

Jesus said, “You know that the rulers of the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. It shall not be so among you.

But whoever would be great among you must be your servant, and whoever would be first among you must be your slave (Mat 20:25-27 ESV).

Then I saw the Doctrine of the Believer’s Priesthood being renewed with the Body of Christ.

1Pe 2:5 ESV
(5).  you yourselves like living stones are being built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

1Pe 2:9 ESV
(9).  But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

Strong defines this Greek word for priesthood as “the priestly fraternity, that is, a sacerdotal order.”

Thayer’s Definition is:

1) the office of a priest;
2) the order or body of priests.

Rev 1:6 ESV
(6).  and made us a kingdom, priests to his God and Father, to him be glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.

Again, Thayer’s Definition is:

1) a priest, one who offers sacrifices and in general is busied with sacred rites

1a) referring to priests of Gentiles or the Jews

2) metaphorically of Christians, because, purified by the blood of Christ and brought into close intercourse with God, they devote their life to him alone and to Christ

Scofield reminds us that the greatest of rights afforded to priests is to have access to God. It was the high priest alone that entered the holy place on behalf of the people.  This access was left as a mystery to the people.  The earthly body of flesh and blood held by Christ is symbolic of the veil that separated the holy of holies from the people.  But when he was crucified, his flesh was torn and the veil over the holy place was torn apart.  This was a direct signal from God that through Christ, all believers have priestly access to Him (Heb 9:7, 10:19-22) [6].

Heb 10:19-24 ESV
Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how to stir up one another to love and good works,

With all of these ideas in mind, I realized that my calling is to empower the Body of Christ to do the work of the ministry.  To be a minister unto ministers.  So, I began this pursuit. God placed His blessing on it every step of the way.  Within a year, He sent Rodger Niemeier, NACM VP to help me carry the torch of ministering to ministers.  From there, God began adding Elders to our Fellowship, and we began growing right away.

Of course, wolves also crept in with their own desires (one of our early elders), believing that they could duplicate what God has called me to do.  A few others also tried the same.  Needless to say, it was not their calling, and it was not ordained by God because they acted deceitfully to build their own kingdoms.  They stole email addresses from our members and used them to promote their agendas. This resulted in the stirring up of gossip, attempts to invalidate God’s leaders, and the promotion of discord among brothers (which God despises, Prov. 6:19).  Needless to say, their attempts failed.

However, on the other side of things, God was bringing the NACM to the spotlight.  I was called by Good Housekeeping Magazine to be a voice for Christianity regarding the topic of overcoming difficulties. Among many other unbelievable blessings, and the amazing people God was bringing to us, I was invited by Elder Freewater to visit his Bible College in Nigeria.  There I spent 8 days fellowshipping, reviewing his curriculum, and lecturing for the students.

While I could go on and on (because it really is a long story) like that we have more than 23,000 members, the registration of our service mark, the acceptance of States permitting NACM ministers to enter jails, prisons, shelters, officiate weddings, the development of our classes, manual to ministry, and my being subpoenaed by a Tennessee court to substantiate two wedding officiants in their ministry…God never ceases to amaze me by His favor, grace, opportunities, and the high-quality people He sends to assist in continuing our vision.  It would be impossible otherwise.

In celebration of all these things, and 15 years for ministry thus far, we are presenting the NACM Fellowship Badge as a token of our vision.  For the next 2 weeks (ends April 9^th) we are offering the badge at the incredible discount from $39.99 to $16.99 (while supplies last).

15 Year Celebration

In 2024 we celebrate the NACM. For 15 years, God has graced us to unite, support, assist, train, fellowship and encourage Christian ministers around the world.

In celebration of this milestone, we offer the NEW 3D Fellowship Badge

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