The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation. itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God. Romans 8:19- 21
I wrote this blog yesterday, then had two discussions with people about Christianity and our call to steward creation, then woke up to the sound of a bulldozer moving sand on the beach, so I figured, yeah, it’s relevant:
Does living the Christian story have anything to do with environmentalism, and if so, what? Just read a very helpful article on the topic in Christianity Today with two folks who are thinking hard about the matter, Peter Harris and Eugene Peterson. Listen to Harris’ encouragement:
If you believe you’re going to be able, by technology, by political force, by whatever means, to save the planet, you may well get disillusioned and exhausted and depressed. these are genuine problems within the environmental movement.
If, on the other hand, you do what you do because you believe it pleases the living God, who is the Creator and whose handiwork this is, your perspective is very different…i do think it gives God tremendous pleasure when his people do what they were created to do, which is care for what He has made.
My heart’s desire for the new Bible study, which, yes, really exists, as confirmed yesterday in the bookstore at General Assembly:), is to get people “Living the Story.” As a community working through this study together and as individuals. , people will be called and given opportunity to think of creative ways to live out what we were created to do.
You can read excerpts from Learning God’s Story of Grace here.
