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Lent - Day 11: Being in Charge
Written by Lucy   
Monday, 01 March 2010 00:00

The UN estimates that there are around 50 million people in the world who have been made refugees as a result of environmental deterioration, such as climate change for example which is believed to be responsible for increasing floods / landslides / increasing malaria and increasing crop failure.

In the bible (Genesis 1) God calls humans to “take charge” and "be responsible" for the earth but also to steward it. Do you think Christians have taken one part of this teaching to heart and dismissed the other? Do you think it matters to God?

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# Andy Wain 2010-03-01 11:14
My thoughts on this were radically changed by a book called 'Surprised by Hope' by N.T.Wright. In it he challenged the assumption that when Jesus comes back the earth will be destroyed and we will all go to this wonderful new place called heaven. He argued that instead the earth will be transformed into a new earth, but that the way we treat it now will effect the new earth. If we assume the earth is going to be destroyed in the end why look after it, but if it isn't...
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# Lucy 2010-03-01 21:57
Sometimes when I go somewhere beautiful I wouldn't want heaven to be anywhere else anyway. It would seem like a waste! But we've really messed some parts of the earth up haven't we? I think Christians should really become involved with conservation and environmental issues now, i believe it should be central to our faith
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# Beth 2010-03-04 11:14
Me too, I can't believe that some Christians actually believe that if our lifestyles contribute to the destruction of the earth, then it doesn't matter because it will hasten the 'end times'. GRRRRRRRRRRRRR! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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