Baptist Press - FIRST-PERSON: Improving environmental stewardship while promoting the Gospel - News with a Christian Perspective: Scripture also prioritizes the value of human life in the context of creation (Psalm 8:5-8). Christians concerned about fulfilling our stewardship responsibility cannot faithfully make environmental stewardship equivalent to evangelism and missions (Matthew 28:19-20). What will it profit us if we gain the whole earth, yet lose millions of souls (Matthew 16:26)?
Yet concern for evangelism does not rule out concern for the environment. Some of the most immediately pressing environmental problems dramatically affect the lives of people in the Third World: water pollution, indoor air pollution from cooking fires, and soil erosion are among the many environmental hazards that lead to disease, malnutrition and early death.
Christians can combine environmentalism and evangelism at the point of addressing the environmental issues that inflict the greatest immediate harm on the world's poor. In so doing, they win a more sympathetic hearing for the Gospel.
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