Caring Enough to Confront - The Church and the Environment, Part 1
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🗓️ 14 October 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Is global warming true? Is the Earth our sacred Mother? Are human beings responsible for “messing up” the world? In this program, Chip considers these questions from a biblical perspective. While this issue may seem unimportant, Chip reveals that God has some pretty direct things to say about His creation and our responsibilities to care for it.
Main Points The Question: How are followers of Christ to think, act, and respond to the controversial issue of the environment?Examining the Scripture: What does God say about the environment?
- The earth belongs to God. -Psalm 24:1-2 | Implication: We are to honor God’s creation. -Genesis 1:1
- God appointed mankind “dominion” over the earth. -Psalm 115:16 | Implication: We are the earth’s vice regents. -Genesis 1:28, 2:15
- The earth/nature has intrinsic value and reflects the character and beauty of the Creator. -Psalm 19:1-2 | Implication: We must explore not exploit; enjoy not worship the earth. -Romans 1:19-21
- Mankind is placed in the middle of the created hierarchy and is uniquely responsible to God (above) and for the animals, plants and resources (below). -Psalm 8:3-8 | Implication: We are to use not abuse animals, plants, and resources to glorify God.
- God commands environmental stewardship to protect the land, animals, and vegetation for the common good. -Leviticus 25:1-12, 23; Deuteronomy 25:4; 20:19-20; Matthew 6:26 | Implication: Consumption and productivity must be governed by the boundaries of conservation.
- Christ’s redemptive work includes the earth. -Romans 8:19-21 | Implication: We must treat the earth with the same priority God does. -Revelation 21:1-4
- Recognize and focus on the 7-8 verifiable issues we can all agree upon.
- Identify the 3 root causes of our poor environmental stewardship: Greed, Ignorance, and Carelessness
- Practical steps for you and your friends/family.
Chip Ingram’s passion is helping Christians really live like Christians. As a pastor, author, and teacher for more than three decades, Chip has helped believers around the world move from spiritual spectators to healthy, authentic disciples of Jesus by living out God’s truth in their lives and relationships in transformational ways.
About Living on the EdgeLiving on the Edge exists to help Christians live like Christians. Established in 1995 as the radio ministry of pastor and author Chip Ingram, God has since grown it into a global discipleship ministry. Living on the Edge provides Biblical teaching and discipleship resources that challenge and equip spiritually hungry Christians all over the world to become mature disciples of Jesus.
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| 0:00.0 | Is the Earth our Sacred Mother? Is global warming true or not true? Are Christians |
| 0:07.8 | responsible for messing up the environment? What's the Bible say about the |
| 0:12.4 | church and the environment? That's today. |
| 0:15.0 | Welcome to this edition of Living on the Edge with Chip Ingram. |
| 0:21.0 | We are a discipleship-driven ministry on a mission to |
| 0:24.4 | encourage Christians everywhere to live like Christians. Have you ever thought |
| 0:29.0 | about these questions Chip just posed? To some, this topic may seem a bit unimportant compared to what else we've addressed lately, |
| 0:36.2 | but today as we continue our series caring enough to confront, we'll learn that God has some pretty direct things to say about his creation and our duties to it as followers of Christ. |
| 0:47.0 | So with that, here now is Chip with his talk, the Church and the Environment. |
| 0:52.0 | There are a few topics that I've ever encountered that cause as much controversy and polarizing opinions as when you say, |
| 1:01.0 | what do you think of the environment what are the issues what's the problem and |
| 1:06.5 | I've read a lot and in my research I found people that will give me amazing |
| 1:11.2 | statistics and tell me exactly who to blame and then I read some |
| 1:15.2 | more and I find there's a different group of people or multiple groups of people that will tell |
| 1:19.9 | me all those people are wrong and they give me a whole different set of statistics and I mean |
| 1:24.6 | it is like heat heat heat. In fact as I read I started to jot down sort of some major different perspectives that different groups have. |
| 1:35.2 | I mean just to get my arms around this. |
| 1:36.9 | And I'm just going to go through, these are actual perspectives people have on the environment. |
| 1:41.4 | And then as I kind of read through these I'd like you to think |
| 1:43.8 | about so what's what's mine what do I really think? One group says the real issue with |
| 1:51.2 | the environment is whether global warming is happening or not. |
| 1:56.0 | That's the deal. |
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