A 12-member Call to Action Committee met April 6-8 in Nashville, to set plans to gather data from across the United States to help the church discover ways to deal with the decline in membership in the United States and growing fiscal problems. See "Call to Action seeks to increase church vitality".

The Great Commission is about saving grace—proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, the Cultural Commission is about common grace—shaping culture and building a society that restrains evil, establishes civil order, creates just laws, inspires virtue through truth, beauty, and goodness, and promotes the common good, all the while protecting the rights of the least and last. Both commissions are responses to the Great Commandment, love of God and love of neighbor, and Christian disciples are to carry them out. See "Double Agents of the Kingdom".

If you have not heard about "The Manhattan Declaration, A Call of Christian Conscience, visit www.manhattandeclaration.org to join in reaffirming the fundamental truths about justice and the common good, and to call upon our fellow citizens, believers and non-believers alike, to join us in defending them.