A voice of hope, justice and leadership
If our advocacy is an integral part of us joining in with God’s mission to our world, what should we sound like?
Storming the US Capitol with a banner declaring that “Jesus saves” is not the type of political engagement that the Evangelical Alliance has in mind for its advocacy work. This might appear to be the understatement of the century, but in the wake of events in the US in recent months, and the conflation of religious devotion with political extremism, it is a line that needs to be drawn. We do not, to paraphrase social commentator and author Os Guiness, do the Lord’s work in the world’s ways.
The last five years have seen immense and tense political disagreement among evangelical Christians on both sides of the Atlantic over the presidency of Donald Trump; but even some of his...
The advocacy work of the Evangelical Alliance is to give a voice for evangelical Christians into the corridors of power and the places of influence in the UK. It’s to encourage evangelical...
A voice of hope
Evangelical Christians should offer a voice of hope to society. The past 12 months of pandemic, lockdown and crisis have demonstrated the need for a vision of the future and people who embody...
Our voice of hope is not naïve optimism, nor baseless predictions, but the sure and certain hope of a king who is seeking to redeem all things, of a king whose kingdom is coming here on earth....
