Robert Evans

“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

“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

“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 God is not a God who discards what he has made, who is defeated by sin and evil. Our God is a redeeming God, a God who is determined to reclaim his fallen world, setting it free from its enslavement to corruption and bringing it to a final state of glory.”
― Douglas J. Moo, Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World