Why John Piper Recycles

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🗓️ 28 January 2013

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

Why should Christians care about this earth if we are waiting for a new one? Ultimately, it is because we love our neighbors.

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0:00.0	uh...
0:05.5	caster john here's a question from michael in saint paul he asks quote
0:09.4	what is the christians responsibility to creation
0:12.8	in quote in all that another common question into this discussion if the
0:16.0	possible peter says that this world is going to burn up
0:18.8	why should christians care at all about creation today
0:21.5	i like the question and um...
0:24.8	i've been tempted
0:26.2	more than once and several people have asked me to write
0:29.8	a short book on creation care maybe i'll do it someday but
0:33.4	but here's what i would say in essence
0:36.7	there are
0:37.7	the effort approaches
0:39.6	for justifying
0:41.2	serious concern care
0:43.7	for creation and not treating
0:45.8	it is trash and
0:48.0	doing things
0:49.3	with it and for it
0:51.4	that make it what god wants it to be
0:54.8	and one is to to approach
0:57.0	genesis one where we're
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