Creation care - Blogabond

Reading the new book "Kingfisher's Fire" by Peter Harris, who founded the A_Rocha organization in Portugal about 25 years ago. As Jose and I are working to establish an A_Rocha presence here in the Peruvian Amazon, I was encouraged by Peter's stories about how other groups around the world got started with little more than a few people with desire and commitment. I was also impressed by his explanation of how the Bible teaches that creation care is not just one of the good things that Christians are called to do. Understood correctly, it is at the core of what it means to worship and serve God.

Yet Christianity has become so corrupted that most Christians ignore their calling to be stewards of nature, and pay their allegiance to an economic system that is destroying the planet. Furthermore, many environmentalists - be they Christian or of another persuasion - believe that the justification for conservation is the enjoyment, health or even survival of human beings. Peter Harris suggests that the justification is about all of creation, not just people, and about our relationship with God.

Whether we interpret the stories in Genesis literally or metaphorically, to believe in creation care means to understand that everything comes from and belongs to God - nothing exists apart from God; creation is the visible expression of the unseen God and we show our love for God by appreciating and caring for his creation.

Hear the word of the LORD, you Israelites,
because the LORD has a charge to bring
against you who live in the land:
"There is no faithfulness, no love,
no acknowledgment of God in the land.

There is only cursing, lying and murder,
stealing and adultery;
they break all bounds,
and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

Because of this the land mourns,
and all who live in it waste away;
the beasts of the_field and the birds of the air
and the fish of the sea are dying.

Hosea 4:1-3

written by

cjones on October 15, 2008 from Tarapoto, Peru

from the travel blog: so-journ

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