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

MessageI read the whole article by Colson and dipped into other Breakpoint articles. Pretty useless as he is not willing to consider the arguments for global warming. All he wants is to fiddle while Rome burns and simply practice an economic argument for the use of less fuel.
The sooner all face up to the seriousness of the environmental issue and not play games like ISA and Calvin Beisner who are best described as Browns and not Greens.
I assume Colson etc don't own cars with more than 2 litre engines:)

Michael
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: Jon Tandy
  To: asa@calvin.edu
  Sent: Friday, November 02, 2007 4:07 PM
  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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