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“We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.”
― Colin Bell, Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church

“Our work is not to save the planet, or to bring about the kingdom of God by our own efforts. We are rather called to live as instantiations of the kingdom of God, members of a resistance movement against all that would destroy God’s creation, trusting in his grace for the future.”
― Colin Bell, Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church

“The Call to Action believes ‘that environmental issues represent one of the greatest opportunities to demonstrate the love of Christ and plant churches among unreached and unengaged people groups in our generation’.”
― Colin Bell, Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church

“There is no other resource for dealing with brokenness that’s as powerful as the gospel lived out creatively and effectively in the context of local culture. The gospel gives us enough hope to enter into these very difficult, seemingly hopeless situations.”
― Colin Bell, Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church

“The church is probably the world’s largest civic society organization—present in virtually every nation and every community, and having an immense impact on how people think. If the church can harness this influence to inspire people to care more for creation and to act upon this care, then the world will be a very different place.”
― Colin Bell, Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church

“A missional church is one where the whole membership is involved in some aspect of mission, so that mission is not a function of the church but its essential nature.”
― Colin Bell, Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church

“Our mission is in the context of the kingdom of God, inaugurated by Jesus Christ yet still only here in part. Our missiological task is to be agents of God’s kingdom rule—transforming not just individuals but society and also seeking the renewal and healing of creation, praying and working for God’s kingdom on earth as in heaven.”
― Colin Bell, Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church