What Is A Green Christian?
As my initial foray into this new blog I thought it good to address the basic question of “What is a Green Christian?” After all, there are quite a few of us. The Facebook group, Green Christian, has 2.1k followers and more and more churches are looking to become recognised as eco churches. I would suggest that primarily a Green Christian is somebody who takes seriously God’s commandment in Genesis, “Be fruitful and multiply, and 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.”” In other words, “I have created this wonderful, diverse planet for you to live on, look after it.” I would suggest that a Green Christian is somebody who takes seriously Jesus commandment to “love your neighbour as you love yourself.” The parable of the Good Samaritan makes it clear that our neighbour is every other person with whom we share this beautiful, wonderful, amazi...