In Genesis 1:28 God gave instructions to man for the stewardship of his creation. It says, “And God blessed them. And God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over every living thing that moves on the earth." Mankind has subdued the earth. We have made it safer more fruitful, but we have also used its resources unwisely. Can we steward better without leaving the "least of these" to suffer in poverty and need? Can we improve but understand the cost? Can we check our privilege and put the needs of others ahead of our own? While we are doing all of this temporal work, who is minding the eternal issues? Can we put the Gospel first and still steward the creation God gave to us?
RESOURCES ON CARE OF THE EARTH
The Environment and the Christian by Calvin DeWitt Green
Revolution by Ben Lowe
Redeeming Creation: The Biblical Basis for Environmental Stewardship by Fred Van Dyke, David C. Mahan, Joseph K. Sheldon and Raymond H. Brand
Under the Bright Wings by Peter Harris
Adele Ahlberg Calhoun, Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us, Revised and expanded. (Downer’s Grove, IL: IVP Books, 2015), 202–204.
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