We care for only what we love. We love only what we know. We truly know only what we experience. If we do not know our place-know it in more than a passing, cursory way, know it intimately and personally-then we are destined to use and
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“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’.”
― Creation Care and the Gospel: Reconsidering the Mission of the Church
― 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.”
― Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World
― Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World
“We are to fulfill our calling to be caretakers of the earth, regardless of whether global warming is real, or there are holes in the ozone layer, or three nonhuman species become extinct each day. Our vocation is not contingent on results or the state of the planet. It is simply dependent on our character as God's response-able human image-bearers.”
― For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care
― For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care
“Our human vocation is to work and take care of the place where God has planted us, to serve him in our rule in creation as priests in his temple. Caring for the earth is not, in this light, a peripheral biblical theme; it is central to our identity as God’s image bearers.”
― Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World
― Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World
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