Rick Warren's Wacky environmental agenda

Another Rick Warren thread

Who's Steve Camp?

 

I think it is great that Warren is encouraging believers to be obedient the biblical call to steward God's creation.

Evangelical Environmental Network : Creation Care : Scripture

 

Amen!

I'm truly surprised at the high number of Christians who don't even make an effort to recycle, believing that it isn't important.

 

Thanx for sharing . . .
it's always good to keep up with the latest news from the fruit and nut section
Poor Rick - maybe global warming has affected his thought process . . .

 

Amen!

I'm truly surprised at the high number of Christians who don't even make an effort to recycle, believing that it isn't important. </font>[/QUOTE]Recycling is a good thing. Rick Warren and his teachings, however, are not.

 

psst . . . it's not

 

Stewardship is not important? psst...it is!

1Co 9:17 For if I do this willingly, I have a reward; but if unwillingly, I am entrusted with a stewardship.

 

All I see is a man that writes something as fact without supporting it with evidence.

Take a few examples.

"A guy writes one very successful book, makes a lot of money and all of a sudden he's concerned about people with AIDS and world hunger."

This is an unfair assumption being that he doesn't know this to be fact. If Warren didn't do anything with his influence they would have problems as well. success = can't win in the baptist world.

"This is nothing but recycled (no pun intended) left wing political skubalon with biblical proof-texts attached (almost all of the scriptures he uses to justify this cause are taken completely out of context--too many to list here. I think he's still reading The Message). Global warming is a myth folks; a fabrication."

Again no support. He just makes a statement and runs with it. He may very well be right, but I would like some academic support.

These are just a few.

 

Sounds like Rick Warren has discovered an issue that many teenagers are passionate about, and had enabled them to fufil that passion through a Christian initiative. No doubt it will result in many more teens chosing his or an affiliated church over other mainstream churches. That is not neccessaraly a bad thing though, Christians should care about the environment to what they are able to do. Yet all to often people are more concerned about their own needs than the needs of others and the result is massive selfishness rather than having an attitude of wishing to help others.

 

Let's prioritize here a bit. Sound doctrine and preaching from a good translation is far more important than recycling.Rick needs to quit merchandising the saints.

 

Rick Warren preaches the Gospel. Period. End of story. He may not preach it in a manner that you like, but he preaches it.

 

Uhhh, webdog,

Perhaps you shoud take your quote in its context. It is not speaking of recycling or any other environmental effort, wacky or not.

 

Let's prioritize here a bit. Sound doctrine and preaching from a good translation is far more important than recycling.Rick needs to quit merchandising the saints. </font>[/QUOTE]Sound doctrine is important, and RW demonstrates this. Stewardship is more important than your requirements of a "good translation".

 

Uhhh, webdog,

Perhaps you shoud take your quote in its context. It is not speaking of recycling or any other environmental effort, wacky or not. </font>[/QUOTE]No kidding. The point is stewardship is important, regardless what we are to be stewards of.

 

I would say that it isn't sad but good that Christians are being obedient to scripture to steward creation instead of listening to corporate anti-environmentalist propoganda.

 

I would ask the moderators to close this thread as it is nothing more than dragging Rick Warren, a Christian brother, through the mud again. There's been enough of these threads on the BB to last a lifetime.