A Christian Approach to the Environment

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A Christian Approach to the Environment

• Bruce Duggan
• Director

BullerCentre.com
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God
creation
people
self
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creation
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Gaia Christianity
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God
creation
deep green Christianity
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God
creation
utilitarian Christianity
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apocalyptic Christianity
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individualist Christianity
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accountable Christianity
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• Who then is the faithful and wise servant?
• Matthew 24 Luke 12
• entrusting a vineyard to tenants
• Mark 12 Matthew 21
• entrusting wealth to servants
• Matthew 25 Luke 19

parables of accountability
accountable Christianity
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• Everything under heaven belongs to me.
• Job 4111
• The earth is the Lords, and everything in it.
• Psalm 241
• Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and
  the earth by your great power and outstretched
  arm.
• Job 4111

accountable Christianity
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• God said, Let the water teem with living
  creatures, and let birds fly above the earth
  across the vault of the sky.God blessed them
  and said, Be fruitful and increase in number and
  fill the water in the seas, and let the birds
  increase on the earth.
• Genesis 1 20-22

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Northeast Atlantic cod catch
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• Then God said, Let us make mankind in our
  image, in our likeness, so that they may rule
  over the fish in the sea and the birds in the
  sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals,
  and over all the creatures that move along the
  ground.
• God blessed them and said to them, Be fruitful
  and increase in number fill the earth and subdue
  it.
• God saw all that he had made, and it was very
  good.
• Genesis 1 26-31

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• If you fear the Lord and serve and obey him and
  do not rebel against his commands, and if both
  you and the king who reigns over you follow the
  Lord your Godgood! 15 But if you do not obey the
  Lord, and if you rebel against his commands, his
  hand will be against you....
• 1 Samuel 1214-15

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• Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by
  action, is dead....Was not our father Abraham
  considered righteous for what he did when he
  offered his son Isaac on the altar? You see that
  his faith and his actions were working together,
  and his faith was made complete by what he did.
• James 217-22

The world will judge our faith by our actions.