Closer To Heaven
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“Can you believe this? They’ve put a week’s lesson on the environment into our church’s lesson study guides.” 1 “They have?” Brenda reached the coffee table and found her copy of the guidebook her husband Matt was talking about. She rustled through the pages until she found the one labeled February 18-24.
Key Thought : Because God has created this world to be our home and given us dominion as His stewards, we have a responsibility to care for our environment. [Teaching plan for " Creation Care " February 22, 2012] 1. Have a volunteer read Genesis 1:25-28 .
“And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. . . .
“Hell and Destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied” ( Prov.
I am a Christian who believes that God created everything in six literal days and then literally rested on the seventh day.
The issue of the environment, and taking care of the environment, isn’t specifically and openly addressed in the Bible. Of course, there are a lot of specific issues that the Bible doesn’t address. What the Bible does do, and does again and again, is give us principles that should be applied to all areas of life, which include the question of the environment.
How, then, do Seventh-day Adventists look at the question of the environment? How do we get involved and yet seek to keep a right balance? Below is an official statement, voted by the church leadership back in 1995.
Years ago an environmentalist entered a seafood restaurant.
Read for This Week’s Study: Rom. 1:25 , 2 Pet. 3:10–14 , Gen
