1. CREATION CARE SUNDAY 2017

2. Creation Care Sunday

3. 1. Why Care? Because God does
Genesis 1: ‘In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.’
‘God saw that it was good.’
1 John 4: ‘God is love’ and ‘we love because God first loved us.’

4. 2. Why Care? Because Creation is GIFT …which we are part of and dependent upon

5. 3. Why Care? We are ‘Stewards’ of the World
Gen 1:28 ‘fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth.”
Gen 2:15 The LORD God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to work it and take care of it.
Lev 25:23 The land shall not be sold in perpetuity, for the land is mine; with me you are but aliens and tenants.

6. 4. Why Care? ‘Creation is part of God’s ultimate purpose
Col 1: 19,20 For God was pleased to have all his fullness dwell in him, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through his blood, shed on the cross.

7. 5. Why Care? To obey the command: to love our neighbours
‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.... and love your neighbour as yourself. (Mark 12:30-31).