Christians Helping to Perserve the Environment

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Christians Helping to Perserve the Environment

Many Christians believe that God created the World and also made man

to be its stewards i.e. To look after something that does not belong

to you. Christians who want to be good stewards attempt to protect the

World and the rest of creation, by dealing with environmental problems

e.g. a major oil of the coast of Spain, or forest fires in Australia.

Examples of these stewards are "Green Peace" who try to overt

environmental disasters and clear up others. Another example is the

"RSPCA", who work to prevent cruelty to animals.

As most Christians believe God created the Earth for people to live on

and multiply, they give thanks to their creator in many different

ways:

Well Dressing: All the wells in the village are blessed by the local

vicar in a special Sunday service. Hymns are sung and prayers said at

each well. At some, readings from the Bible are orated. Money is also

collected, from visitors, which goes to support a charity, often

connected with children.

Harvest Festivals: This festival usually takes place during September.

Offerings of fruit and vegetables are placed around the altar for a

thanksgiving service that would make sure there was a good crop for

the next year. After the service the offerings are given to those less

fortunate.

The Harvest Home festival is held at the end of September once all

harvesting of all crops has been finished. People take great pride in

decorating the churches and often keep the best of the harvest for

this festival.

The altar in the churches is decorated with vases which hold autumn

leaves, berries and flowers and special tables...

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...th and bodies since they were

also affected by the Great Flood and are destined to die. Rather, we

work hard to combat the life-diminishing effects of the Great Flood by

better sanitation, nutrition, and health care services.

We find this same activist model in Jesus Christ who not only combated

the effects of the Great Flood by teaching and preaching the good news

of salvation from sin and peace with God but who engaged deeply in the

here-and-now tasks of bringing physical wholeness to humans destined

to die. In Matthew 25, Jesus even claimed that those who would enter

his kingdom were those who ministered to people's physical needs,

needs which sprang from the effects of the Great Flood. In addition to

caring about humans' eternal destiny, Jesus obviously cared deeply

about the quality of humans' earthly existence.

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