Status Updates From Green Church: Reduce, Reuse...

Salvation is not so much going to heaven when we die but about heaven coming to earth. Salvation includes a profound harmony with God, the creation, and one another.

AM Lindbergh : "Man had to free himself from earth to perceive both it's diminutive place in a solar system and it's inestimable value as a life-fostering planet. We see our planet earth with detachment, with tenderness, with some shame and pity, but at last also with love."

God loves is at least as much as the one who loves us most.

The garden is the perfect place to learn... death and resurrection all over the place.

As people of faith, it is time to rethink our throwaway mentality. Our current course of continual consumption and planned obsolescence exacts an outrageous price: The poor of the world die that the wealthy may live. We must find a new way.

No matter how much money you may have, affluence can never take the place of abundance.

Our wealth symbolizes a hidden poverty... rich in things but poor in spirit.

Going green is not a checklist of deprivations to endure, habits to change, or things to but. Going green is ultimately about respecting the well-being of every community on earth... even future generations who have yet to be born are part of our community

Matt. 6:25b. The Bible envisions a different kind of life for us: a life focused not on what we privately possess but on what we share in common.

Matt. 6:20a. The word heaven is a Jewish way of referring to God. Storing up treasure, then, means serving others and honoring God by doing so.

philopatry - love of homeland.

The Scriptures call us tone stewards of the creation; science lets us know how we are doing at it.

As we think about reducing our impact on the earth, there is no better place to turn than to the Bible for guidance. It contains the first environmentally friendly law on the books, the covenant of sabbath.

As we think about reducing our impact on the earth, there is no better place to turn than to the Bible for guidance. It contains the first environmentally friendly law on the books, the covenant of sabbath.

... get back into the creation, to be restored and reclaimed, and to reclaim our rightful role as stewards of the creation... While you are out there, pay attention. Listen. Watch. Read the Bible outdoors. Pray for the creation. Let the Spirit speak to you about how you might use your God-given talents to bring order out of chaos in your neck of the woods. And don't come back 'till dark!

"Christian education used to be grounded in camp experiences where the holy met the wild. Not anymore. The move indoors has affected faith formation, too."