If you click on this website you’ll find a 20 minute video that should change the way that you think about your life and the way that you live it. It did for Jen and I. I couldn’t help but feel that this video was a truth that we Christ followers should be (and should have been) preaching and thinking about.
If you watch it and think, “Tree Huggers…” or “It isn’t so bad…” or “the world is going to end and Jesus is going to come back before it gets too bad”… please watch it again (and look at our call in Gen 2 to be stewards of the earth*) and try to focus on the effect that this has on people…God’s people. God’s children. If you knew that one of your kids was getting rich by forcing one of your other ones into prostitution, you’d probably be pretty upset. Sorry God…forgive us and give us wisdom and discipline to change our ways.
*And then think of how Jesus taught about how important it is to be found doing what we’re supposed to be doing when He does come back. Or think about how in your gut this just doesn’t feel (or look) like it’s how God intended it to be, and then think about how we as followers of Jesus are left here on earth to actually be God’s ambassadors…as if God himself was making his plea (making His case that His way is better than ours) through us. If the best we can come up with is gross mis-stewardship, undisciplined and careless living, abusing strangers, and not living out God’s mandate for creation, but we get to escape all the consequences (there is a huge element to this obviously found in grace and the Gospel) it just doesn’t feel right to me. And I don’t think that this way of thinking is congruent with a biblical world view. But we’ll see one day…
Thanks to Dan for putting this on his blog…and Rogier…some Americans are speaking up. (Don’t know if he will even see this, but after a recent post of his, this stuff should be good news.
i saw someone talking about this somewhere else too. anna is taking a nap but i’ve got it qued up to watch when she wakes up. thanks.