Stewarding God’s Creation Is a Call to Mission
“Christian people should surely have been in the vanguard of the movement for environmental responsibility because of our doctrines of creation and stewardship. Did God make the world? Does He sustain it? Has He committed his resources to our care? His personal concern for His own creation should be sufficient to inspire us to be equally concerned. But can ecological involvement be properly understood under the heading of ‘mission’? Yes, it can and should. For mission embraces everything Christ sends His people into the world to do, service as well as evangelism. And we cannot truly love and serve our neighbours if, at the same time, we are destroying their environment or acquiescing in its destruction or even ignoring the environmentally depleted circumstances in which so many people are condemned to live.”
– John Stott
