...do justice, love mercy, walk humbly with God. (Micah 6:8)

About Advocacy

What is advocacy?  Why does the ELCA do advocacy?  Does the ELCA understand advocacy to be part of its mission?  For more information click here.

Scripture Passages that Guide our Work:

John 3:16-17  For God so loved the world that God gave God's only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.  God did not send God's son into the world to condemn the world, but to save it.

Matthew 22:36-40 "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the law?"  Jesus replied, "Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.  This is the first and greatest commandment.  And the second is like it: Love your neighbor as yourself.  All the Law and the Prophets hang on these two commandments."

Matthew 25:35-36, 40 "For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink.  I was a stranger and you welcomed me, I was naked and you gave me clothing, I was sick and you took care of me, I was in prison and you visited me . . . I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these . . . you did for me."

1 Corinthians 13: 4-8, 13: 4 Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant ⁵or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ⁶it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. ⁷It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

⁸ Love never ends. . . ¹³And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love.

Amos 5:24  But let justice roll down like waters, and righteousness like an ever flowing stream.

Micah 6:8  And what does the Lord require of you?  To act justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.

The ELCA Social Statements and Messages - Our Policy Base

Social statements are major documents, adopted by the ELCA Churchwide Assembly, addressing significant social issues.  Since 1991 the ELCA has adopted seven social statements.  Click on the links below to review the social statements.