The Centre for Public Christianity does an array of
podcasts. They are all about
having open discussion about issues that concern us but from a Christian
perspective.
There was one podcast that intrigued me. It covered the topic of ‘climate
change’. A hot button topic bound
to polarise its audience. It is 15
mins long. A statement near the end I found disturbing. It came from the guest on this podcast,
a Christian, scientist and advocate for ‘climate change’.
Nearing the end the guest mentioned how if we act on
‘climate change’ then we still have a “glimmer of hope” of avoiding
catastrophic rises in temperature.
This Christian is saying that knowing full well who created
the climate and who maintains the climate (i.e. God). He also knows that any catastrophic world-ending event would
mean the second coming of Jesus is upon us. As Christians we are supposed to pray for this event to take
place. Yet the guest claims to be
an advocate for action on ‘climate change’ so that his children will have a
world to live in.
We don’t have a “glimmer of hope”. We have a beacon of hope and it comes in the person and work
of Jesus Christ. A Christian ought
to worship Jesus, not His creation.
Worship creation and Jesus is ignored. Worship Jesus and enjoy His creation in a responsible way,
as stewards with dominion over God’s creation.
We ought to do the right thing by the environment. No one in church would disagree with
this. Many Christians have gone
beyond ‘stewardship’ and jumped into ‘earth worship’. For these people God is put in a box while they focus on
their glimmer of hope.
Meanwhile
the beacon of hope .................is still in the box.
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