God taught his people to “teach [God’s words] diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” (Deuteronomy 6:7).
Since “children are a heritage from the Lord” (Ps 127:3) and we are to raise them “in the discipline and instruction of the Lord” (Ephesians 6:4) it is important that we begin teaching them about the things of God, and of his grace to us in Jesus Christ at the earliest possible time. This should be a most natural thing for a Christian family, and the principle truths of the faith will be naturally taught by both explicit instruction and by example. Every aspect of home life should instruct children of all ages what it means to be a Christian, as God’s word is lived out in the home.
God taught his people to “teach [God’s words] diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.” (Deuteronomy 6:7). One of the repeated characteristics of God in the Bible is his concern for the weak and helpless, and his direction to us that we share that concern. The government is given the ordinary responsibility of protecting its citizens from harm and restraining evil, for which purpose they are said to “bear the sword,” but in cases where we witness one person doing harm to another the sixth commandment gives us the right and responsibility, according to God’s law, to defend the life of another using any means at our disposal.
The Bible is also clear that this concern for the protection of innocents and the legitimate concern for true justice does not extend to our seeking vengeance for wrongs done to us or others. Very simply, no, neither our church, Redding Reformed Fellowship, nor our denomination, the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, has any statement on climate change.
The comments of some religious leaders notwithstanding, the whole topic of climate change, with all of the questions of possible contributing causes, and even of the existence of the phenomenon, are questions of science, and not a little of opinion, and so I am not sure how much a church ought to be making definitive statements about it. In the beginning man was given dominion over the creation, which means it is his to use. We also ought to be good stewards, using it and its resources in a wise and God-glorifying way. |
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