American Pastors Guild
A Brotherhood of American Pastors.
Equipping America's pastors to contend with the greatest threats to the church and the nation.
When your people ask about Marxism in the classroom, or what the Bible actually says about Israel, or whether the Founders were Christians, too many good pastors fail to answer with clarity and authority, or fail to answer at all. By default, that hands the questions back to the politicians and abdicates the pastor’s role.
The American Founders assumed pastors would carry the flame of liberty forward. They knew the republic they built would only hold if the church held. The American church today is crying out for bold, clear, unapologetic spiritual leadership, and is too often left wanting.
This is why we have formed the Guild. Now more than ever, we need pastors who know the stories that matter, who can walk a congregation through the cultural moments sitting in front of them.
The American Pastors Guild exists to help you carry the weight of responsibility well.
Pastor Rob McCoy
Founding Voice of the Guild
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.
John AdamsLetter to the Massachusetts Militia · October 11, 1798
These are the commitments every Guild fellow holds in common. They define the pillars of the Guild and what it stands for in the public square.
Acts 22 · Romans 13
Preach the true stories and foundations of the republic with biblical authority, historical clarity, and modern application. This pillar is anchored in the biblical blueprint for nations and centered on the founding documents and the men who wrote them.
Jude 3
The church was put together around creeds, councils, and confessions. Today much of that has been lost, or twisted into something it was never meant to be. Now more than ever, we need pastors who understand the family tree that is the Christian Church, how denominations came into existence, why many of them are failing, and how we move into the future of the American church, tethered to history and tradition but bound first by Scripture.
Colossians 2:8
Many churches today are filled with well-meaning Christians whose minds have been infiltrated by a mixture of watered-down Christianity and competing cultural ideologies. This is happening because too many pastors have failed to identify how Marxist, humanist ideologies have snuck into our doctrine, dogma, and practice. We answer these ideologies with the truth from Scripture, leading with confidence and clarity to eradicate the ignorance and quell the panic that comes from not knowing how to name it or what to do about it.
Genesis 12:3
The American Pastors Guild stands with the Jewish people and believes the eternal promises of God for Israel are exactly that. We will be a friend to the Jewish people and will educate the church from Scripture, from accurate history, and with a clear eye on the current cultural moments shaping thought in and out of the church.
1 Peter 3:15
There is perhaps no greater threat from outside the church to the American system, the American culture, the American way of life, and the American church than the Islamification happening at warp speed. This has been allowed because too many pastors and Christian leaders are ignorant of history, ignorant of what Islam is, and ill-equipped to prepare their people for the fight we are now in. We will establish the historical record and address it theologically, politically, and evangelically. We will name the evil in our midst and equip the church to meet the moment and face it head on.
This is a Guild, a Brotherhood.
Not a Mailing List.
Every brother who wears the Guild name has walked the same road, holds the same values and convictions, and leads fearlessly in his sphere of influence.
Say it plainly: the Guild is a brotherhood, a fellowship of men. We hold the conviction the Church has held from the beginning, that the Lord calls men to the eldership and to the head of the household, and the Guild exists to sharpen them for it.
The women who carry this same weight are honored, and warmly encouraged to raise up a fellowship of their own. A Sisterhood Guild is in view.
This is a Guild, a Brotherhood. Not a mailing list.
Membership is open to ordained male ministers, senior or associate pastors in good standing of an active church. By conviction, not credential.
The way in is deliberate, and the brotherhood it leads into is worth every step.
Step One
Complete the application and affirm the five pillars. If you’re in on the non-negotiables, you’re already almost there. Every application is personally reviewed and responded to. If you are a fit, you enter as a Guild Associate.
Step Two
Once you are accepted as a Guild Associate, your annual dues of $300 are charged. As an associate you gain the course material, the resource library, and the community features you need on the path to Fellowship. At this level, you are part of the Guild and on track to becoming a fellow.
Step Three
A Guild Associate completes a four-day, in-person Fellowship retreat. Following the Fellowship, the associate becomes a fellow and the whole Guild opens: all teaching content, the brotherhood text group, monthly calls, and Israel Pilgrimage eligibility. If you are a senior or lead pastor, you take your place as a Guild Senior Fellow, the same membership with a designation set by your role.
The Annual Gathering
Part of the commitment is showing up. Once a year the whole Guild comes together in one place, associates and fellows alike. This is the one Guild occasion a man brings his wife, or a +1. It is the rhythm the rest of the year is built around.
The first gathering is set for Fall 2027. Dates to be announced; for associates and fellows.
The dues cover the cost of running the Guild. Nothing more. Our generous donor partners carry the rest. This is an investment in your own equipping, and in the brotherhood that comes with it. You won’t be paying for a subscription. You’re entering into belonging.
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Administration. Nothing more.
Carried by
Donor partners, not dues.
Most of what you get from the Guild is not a line item. It is the other men at the table.
Some of it is yours from day one. The rest opens after the Fellowship.
A public platform built by the brotherhood. Guild members are featured, promoted, and heard.
Deep, recorded instruction from men who have spent their lives in the history, the doctrine, and the fight.
Sermons, source documents, reading paths, and frameworks. The backbone most of us never had time to assemble.
Articles written by our Guild fellows and staff, curated and weighted for men with no time to waste. The Stack keeps you up to speed on what is happening in our world and helps you think biblically about what matters.
The questions you can’t ask anywhere else, answered in real time by men in the fight with you. Associates join the teaching portion from day one.
Essays in the Guild’s voice on what we’re bound to preach. Guild members can read them, and fellows can contribute editorials of their own.
A virtual room of pastors who know your name and answer when you reach out. This isn’t another group chat. It’s a brotherhood of fearless leaders supporting one another in a strong, equipping community.
Guild fellows are invited to walk in the footsteps of Jesus and the early church with your brothers, grounding your love of Scripture in the soil it came from.
In Partnership With
This is the standard, and this is how you meet it. The application is read by a person, not a funnel. If you are ready to stand in this line, begin it here.
We review every application personally. You come in as a Guild Associate.
Membership is open to ordained male ministers, senior or associate pastors in good standing of an active church. By conviction, not credential.
The pillars, the brotherhood, the Fellowship. It begins with the application.
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