Robert Evans

“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

“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.”
― Douglas J. Moo, Creation Care: A Biblical Theology of the Natural World

“But”
― Dallas Willard, Revolution of Character: Discovering Christ's Pattern for Spiritual Transformation

“…there is no longer a need to qualify mission as “holistic", nor to distinguish between “mission" and “holistic mission". Mission is “holistic", and therefore “holistic mission", is de facto mission. Proclamation alone, apart from any social concern, may be perceived as a distortion, a truncated version of the true gospel, a parody and travesty of good news, lacking relevance for the real problems of real people living in the real world. On the other end of the spectrum, exclusive focus on transformation and advocacy may result in social and humanitarian activism, void of any spiritual dimension. Both approaches are unbiblical; they deny the wholeness of human nature of human beings created in the image of God. Since we are created “whole", and since the Fall affects our total humanity in all its dimensions, then redemption, restoration, and mission can, by definition, only be holistic (2004:166).”
― Steve Bradbury, Where Human Rights & Biblical Justice Meet: Imago Dei & Integral Mission