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LCMS Convention Workbook St. Louis, Missouri — 2026, Page 104

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regard include the webpage LCRLFreedom.org, the Liberty Action Alert (podcast), the Word from the Center, Prayer
Partner Thursdays, the Champions Advocate Weekly, and
Mom and Pop Papers.

Alignment with LCMS goals

Partnership with ADF, First Liberty, and Liberty Counsel in various efforts to offer both our two-kingdom
voice/training coupled with their legal support to the
issues that beset our churches and schools today.
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1. Mission planting: This office exists to protect the public voice, the religious liberty of our churches, missions,
schools, and universities for the sake of mission.
2. Theological education: The LCRL is building a network
of churches who are trained and deployed with a “2KG
[two-kingdom] Civics” mindset to deal with the issues in
culture and politics for the sake of the mission of the Church.
This training program, network of influence, and leadership
may continue to grow into an academic program, training the
next generation of leadership for our church as well.

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3. Collaborate to enhance mission effectiveness: The LCRL
effort will, in all its teachings and literature, emphasize why
and how “two-kingdom cultural engagement” is vital to effective missional outreach.

LCRL established and has grown the main LCRL website,
lcrlfreedom.org, the two-kingdom web resource for LCMS
churches and schools.
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Great Opportunities Seized in 2023–26
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LCRL established a growing LCMS two-kingdom citizenship voice in Washington, D.C., including the following activities.
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Regular member participation with various advocacy
groups, such as the Values Action Team of the House
and Senate, the National Right to Life, the March for
Life, the Southern Baptist ERLC group, the Religious
Liberty Network (RLN), the Religious Freedom Institute (RFI), the Heritage Foundation, and the Weyrich
Luncheon, all seeking to undergird religious liberty, the
sanctity of life, traditional marriage, and educational
freedom.

Advocacy visits on the Hill, including visits and interviews with representatives and thought leaders on the
Hill.

Creating and leading 2KG Roundtable Meetings on the
Hill bringing together political leaders, LCMS leaders,
and various supporters to enhance our witness on the
Hill.

Our growing D.C. radio program and LCRL podcast,
The Liberty Action Alert with Greg Seltz (292 programs
and counting), which both advocates for our positions
with leaders in the country and informs our congregations about issues, advocacy, and action in interviews
with thought leaders on the Hill. Guests include Sen.
Cynthia Lummis (LCMS), Sen. Steve Daines, Rep.
Robert Aderholt, Sen. James Lankford, Os Guinness
(culture), Eric Metaxas (culture), Dr. Victor Davis Hanson, (culture, politics), John Stonestreet (culture), Father Frank Pavone (life), Jeanne Mancini (life), Carrie
Campbell Severino (judiciary), Mike Berry (judiciary), Kelly Shackelford (judiciary), Mat Staver (courts,
culture), Katharine Gorka (culture), George Barna
(culture), Lt. Col. (Ret.) Allen West, Larry Elder, Tim
Goeglein (culture), George Tryfiates (education), Jamison Coppola (education), and Dr. Ben Carson (politics,
culture, education).

2026 Convention Workbook

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Challenge: While the LCRL presence has been established, the next phase of development needs to
further establish our unique voice in the cultural/
political issues of the day. Expanding our role on
committees, expanding our radio voice, and becoming a go-to resource for two-kingdom answers
to the issues surrounding liberty, life, marriage,
and education are the challenges of the next step
in advocacy.

Presently the site is populated with timely and easy-toread resources to inform and instruct our people how
“to put their temporal liberties to work for the sake of
the eternal liberties of Christ.” These include the weekly Word from the Center, Mom and Pop Two-Kingdom
Paper, Liberty Action Alert podcasts, Prayer Partner
Thursdays, and the Champions Advocate Weekly.
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Challenge: The resources, which are many and
growing, need to be more known, accessible, and
more easily investigated for use and application by
our people. We are working to index these.

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Challenge: Social media use is a necessity. We are
presently working to put our information on multiple platforms for the sake of our churches and
ministries.

LCRL established a growing Champions for Liberty Network of churches, which are trained not only in two-kingdom engagement of various issues in our culture, but are
also trained and equipped to engage this issue in service to
the mission of the Church, not as political ideologues. Under the leadership of the Rev. Mark Frith, we have digitally
uploaded our information and our lectures and have created
a “Champion’s Training Process” that empowers pastors and
laity to learn to put one’s “temporal liberties to work in service to the eternal liberties of the Gospel,” without politicizing our mission and witness.
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Rev. Frith is growing the Champions Network, making it the support organization for our D.C. presence
as well as equipping our laity to serve in their home
communities.

He has digitalized our Champions for Liberty educational process, both lecture and application, to prepare
and equip Christians for differentiating God’s preserving and saving work, thus being more effective in the
left-hand kingdom work in service to the mission of the
Church—without politicizing the Gospel, as many advocacy groups are tempted to do.

From 2019 to present, LCRL conducted over 100
Champions for Liberty Weekends with churches and
schools to frame and empower pastoral and lay leaders
to engage the seminal issues of liberty, life, marriage,
and educational freedom with a two-kingdom mind-