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

 Amen, Jon.  And indeed global warming, whether myth or fate, would take care of itself
if we would just treat hydrocarbon as the priceless, precious, finite resource it is. 

 -Mike (Friend of ASA)

-----Original Message-----
From: Jon Tandy <tandyland@earthlink.net>
To: asa@calvin.edu
Sent: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 11:07 am
Subject: [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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