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Why Are Religious Communities
Getting Involved in Environmental Issues?
As followers of Jesus Christ, committed to the
full authority of the Scriptures, and aware of
the ways we have degraded creation, we believe
that biblical faith is essential to the solution
of our ecological problems. Because we worship
and honor the Creator, we seek to cherish and
care for the creation. Because we have sinned,
we have failed in our stewardship of creation.
Therefore we repent of the way we have polluted,
distorted, or destroyed so much of the Creator's
work. Because in Christ God has healed our alienation
from God and extended to us the first fruits of
the reconciliation of all things, we commit ourselves
to working in the power of the Holy Spirit to
share the Good News of Christ in word and deed,
to work for the reconciliation of all people in
Christ, and to extend Christ's healing to suffering
creation. (“An
Evangelical Declaration on the Care of Creation”) |
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