In every age, the Spirit calls us to inquire into the nature of salt and light for our particular time and place in history. Our work is to discern what it means to proclaim and embody the Gospel in relation to contemporary society.
Discipleship requires a new way of life-a life that embodies social witness.
The Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy engages with the grass roots in assisting the General Assembly to discern what it means to proclaim and embody the gospel in relation to contemporary society. Making a social witness begins with very individual and personal ways of growing and developing as a Christian-studying the Scriptures with prayerful discernment, deepening one's understanding of faithfulness through the church's social witness policy, connecting one's faith with others in the church community, and then expressing one's individual and collective faithfulness to the world beyond the church. The work of the churchwide Advisory Committee on Social Witness Policy is based on a number of passages from the Scriptures, The Book of Confessions, and the Book of Order. All of these passages, however, have a common theme. The gospel says that to confess Jesus Christ as Lord is to believe that God can and has overcome the powers of sin in the world.