| Main Menu | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
| Free Sign-Ups | ||
|---|---|---|
|
| Who's Online |
|---|
| Syndicate |
|---|
|
| Statistics |
|---|
Home
| Youth Ministry and Creation Care |
|
|
| Written by Admin | ||||
| Wednesday, 06 August 2008 | ||||
Page 2 of 2 With all of our new knowledge and technology, we have a responsibility to use it to care for Earth. And because I believe this is an issue many youth are concerned about, you have a responsibility to at least talk to them about their responsibility in creation care. Teach your youth to ask these questions of themselves:How can I live a more godly, equitable, and meaningful life? How can I help people today and in the future? How can I be less materialistic? How can I live a more charitable life? What would happen if I led a slower-paced existence? What is the spiritual prescription for depression, anxiety, and anger? How can I become a better steward of nature? I "borrowed" these questions from the personally challenging book, Serve God, Save the Planet, written by a Christian doctor who takes his stewardship of Earth seriously. As you can see from the questions, they are grounded in the basis of how to live this Christian life so you can help your youth create a biblical worldview. You can still do your core mission of teaching a biblical worldview while practicing creation care. In further study of creation care (you do study other trends, so why not study this one too) you will learn that to be a world changer all it takes is for all of us to make small adjustments to our lives. You don't necessarily have to save the polar bears in place of saving human lives. As a youth leader, your life can be a living example and you can purposely do some things as a youth group to be responsible as Christians to Earth. Some of those small things youth ministries can do are: Bringing your church and youth ministry near and direct to creation care is a youth ministry issue. Our teens are becoming more and more passionate about this. So are the ever-so-slow-adapting adults. Typical of adolescence, teens become passionate about many things that don't transfer into their adult years. However, I believe with a proper approach to creation care we can address that passion and teach lifelong habits about our responsibility to "every living thing that moves on the face of Earth." Basically we can teach about proper creation care and "kill two birds with one stone." The two birds are addressing a passion and making it a part of a biblical worldview about our responsibility for Earth for this generation and the next generations. Until the Lord returns
|
||||