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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Christian Ecology Link prayer topic for today

Ideally, a new climate agreement would provide for a uniform high and rising global price for carbon emissions that would:
discourage the release of greenhouse gases and
raise money for adaptation measures, especially in developing countries, and for further emissions reductions.
All the world’s religions can play a vital part in raising public awareness of the fact that everyone will need to contribute their talents and money, and to stimulate pressure on elected representatives to shift away from carbon-based energies and to create new ways of carbon accounting.

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Important Lessons from the Bible

Why Jesus came:
"that the world might be saved through him"
John 3:17

Who Jesus is going to use to save the world:
"For the creation waits with eager longing for the revealing of the sons of God."
Romans 8:19

Our role on earth:
"The LORD God put the man in the Garden of Eden to take care of it and to look after it."
Genesis 2:15

The Five Pillars of A Christian Theology of Sustainability

1. God is the creator, sustainer and redeemer of creation.

2. Covenantal Stewardship (we have a covenant with God as stewards of the earth).

3. The creation-fall-redemption paradigm (God made a good world; human failure broke the relationships between god, man and creation; Christ provides hope for all creation).

4.Bodily resurrection(we will rise with bodies, not as spirits)

5.New Creation (a new Heaven and new Earth refers to a renewal and an earthing of heaven, not starting over).

Adapted from When Enough is Enough: A Christian Framework for Environmental Sustainability, Edited by R.J. Berry, Published by Inter-Varsity Press, 2007, Nottingham p43+