[asa] Just Do It - Good Stewardship and Global Warming

Article today from Chuck Colson on global warming.
http://www.informz.net/pfm/archives/archive_515358.html
 
 
**Excerpt**
But for Christians, the question of global warming should not stop us from
identifying a critical worldview issue here-one on which every Christian
can, or should, agree: and that's the importance of good stewardship toward
the rest of creation. There are things we can do now to be good stewards
that do not require us to get all of the answers that are going to come on
global warming.
 
A great example of this is a long-time friend of mine named Bill Spears.
Bill is a solid Christian, a native oil-belt Texan, a conservative, and an
environmentalist wrapped up in one. Bill started a company called Energy
Education, Inc., which develops energy conservation plans for school
districts, universities, and large churches that "share a common commitment
to fiscal and social responsibility and to the wise use of financial and
environmental resources." Why? As Bill Spears says, its clients can invest
the financial savings "in the lives of people . . . not the utility
companies."
 
Take Prestonwood Baptist Church as an example, a huge church in Plano,
Texas. It worked with Energy Education to cut its utility costs by $1.1
million in one year. That's good stewardship-freeing funds to be used
elsewhere in the ministry.
 
As Prestonwood's pastor, Jack Graham, told the Journal, "Biblical
Christianity . . . has a real answer to the ecological crisis." Francis
Schaeffer, whom Graham quoted, insisted that Christians ought to be the best
stewards possible of the environment. Can you think of one instance where
Scripture praises excessive consumption or waste? I can't.

 
 
Jon Tandy
 

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