Creation care, stewardship & medical missions
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This document discusses creation care and stewardship from a Christian perspective. It defines creation care as caring for God's creation. Christians should care about the environment because it was created by God, Jesus redeems all of creation, and God calls us to love what he loves. The Bible says humans have a responsibility to care for creation as God entrusted dominion over it to humanity. This responsibility involves serving and taking care of the earth. The document outlines specific biblical passages that support Christians caring for the environment and calls believers to action in political, social, and lifestyle areas related to creation care and environmental protection.
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- 3. Why should Christians care about the environment? • Because it’s God’s creation! • Because Jesus lived and died and lives again to redeem all of creation. • Because God is love and empowers us to love what he loves. • Because a damaged environment harms the most vulnerable among us.
- 4. CREATION CARE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS
- 5. Biblical Concept of Creation Care Exploring Scripture regarding care & stewardship of God’s Creation
- 6. The Mission to take care of Creation (WHY-Biblical base) • The Universe God created was “very good” • Gen 1:31 “ behold, it was very good.” • God’s Glory is the goal of creation • Psalm 148 : all the creation praises God • Divine Ownership & Gift • Psalm 24:1 “The earth is the LORD'S, and the fullness thereof; the world, and they that dwell therein.” • Christ Redemption includes Creation • Col 1 :19-20 “all things reconciled by Christ” • The Vision of New Creation • Rev 21:1 “I saw a new heaven and a new earth…”
- 7. The Mission to take care of Creation (WHY-Biblical base) 1. God gave man dominion over the earth • Subdue and Rule over (Gen 1:26-28) 2. Our dominion is a cooperative, a delegated, a responsible dominion • Serve and Take Care (Gen 2:15)
- 8. Our Responsibility 1. Material universe is good in itself, for God created it good and wants us to use it in ways pleasing to Him 2. Creation belongs to God. Creation Care is part of Christian missional task in this fallen world. Christian ought to be in the forefront of caring for creation 3. The condition of environment destruction is urgent to resolve and it needs Christians involvement as salt and light. 4. Produce steward disciple (life style) not the careerist 5. Christians Involvement in political and environmental ethics 6. Prepare young generation to understand about environmental issue --Prevention is better than cure 7. Enjoy creative activities with an attitude of thanksgiving that our Creator God enables us to imitate Him in our creativity, when we see God’s glory in creation
- 9. Watch creation care video (Faraday Institute )
- 10. Creation Care and Mission • The Relationship between Creation Care and Mission • Platform for UPG
Editor's Notes
- Creation care means caring for all of God’s creation by stopping and preventing activities that are harmful (e.g. polluting the air and water) and participating in activities that further Christ’s reconciliation of all of creation to God.
- From a biblical perspective, “the environment” is God’s creation. Creation care does not just mean caring for “nature,” apart from humanity. It means caring for the entire creation: the environment and “all creatures great and small,” including humanity. As those who confess Jesus Christ to be Savior and Lord, our relationship with all of creation must be in keeping with Christ’s relationship with all of creation. When we explore what the Bible says about creation, we interpret each text in light of our relationship to Christ and his relationship to all of creation. If the Bible teaches us that Christ has created the universe, gives it life and sustains it, and has reconciled everything to God, then our actions should participate in Christ’s creating, sustaining, and reconciling work.
- We cannot truly love our neighbours without caring for the land and ecology on which they (and we) depend. We should recognise that God determined the exact places where each nation should live so that men would seek him ( Acts 17:26-27). It follows that we should be concerned when communities have to leave their homes because of ecological crisis like flooding, drought, soil erosion etc. Poor Bangladeshi farmers are often forced to pay large sums of money to middle men for extremely low paying jobs. These farmers start in debt and we perpetuate debt bondage.