Today is Earth Day (though of course every day is Earth day - an opportunity to care for God's creation and live as faithful stewards of it). Tonight at BLAST (6-8pm with dinner, worship and classes/activities) we'll focus on God's creation and our part in it. Hope you can make it!
It seems like a lot of the time when people hear "stewardship" they instantly think "money" - which is fine, since except for the Kingdom of God, Jesus talked more about money than anything else. However, our lives as stewards include how we care for and use (or abuse) God's creation - as individuals and family units, as well as a congregation.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... it's all God's, and how we treat the creation says something about how we think and feel about the Creator.
Maybe a good place for us to start is with making the connection between turning off the lights when we leave the room and honoring the One who said, "Let there be light." How might our attitudes change if we could remember that God said, "It's good" of God's creation, and that sometimes we don't treat it like it is?
There are TONS of online resources to help us be better stewards - caretakers - of God's creation- some from faith perspectives some not (remember, all truth is God's truth, no matter who says it). Here's one resource that may be helpful, from the Web of Creation at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC): Stewardship of Creation: A Thirty Day Discipline. If you're looking for a new daily devotion that will take you beyond two Bible verses and a prayer, try it out - and let us know what you think.
It seems like a lot of the time when people hear "stewardship" they instantly think "money" - which is fine, since except for the Kingdom of God, Jesus talked more about money than anything else. However, our lives as stewards include how we care for and use (or abuse) God's creation - as individuals and family units, as well as a congregation.
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth... it's all God's, and how we treat the creation says something about how we think and feel about the Creator.
Maybe a good place for us to start is with making the connection between turning off the lights when we leave the room and honoring the One who said, "Let there be light." How might our attitudes change if we could remember that God said, "It's good" of God's creation, and that sometimes we don't treat it like it is?
There are TONS of online resources to help us be better stewards - caretakers - of God's creation- some from faith perspectives some not (remember, all truth is God's truth, no matter who says it). Here's one resource that may be helpful, from the Web of Creation at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC): Stewardship of Creation: A Thirty Day Discipline. If you're looking for a new daily devotion that will take you beyond two Bible verses and a prayer, try it out - and let us know what you think.
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