Speaker: Jay Ewing
Title: Our Relationship with the Earth
Text: Genesis 1, Hosea 4.1-3

Big Idea: As followers of Jesus, we are called to care well for God’s good earth.

Main Points:

• A

relationship with the earth

• A

relationship with God

Key Questions

• Is our current relationship with the earth full of ‘beauty and peace’?

• How do you think God might feel about how humankind is currently caring for His earth?

• What might it mean to ‘serve and protect’ God’s creation in your life? (Gen 1.26)

• What is your place? How might you get to know it better?

Key Quotes
“Any error about creation also leads to an error about God”
-Thomas Aquinas

For Further Exploration

• Meditate on Psalm 24 this week.

• Download the App - ‘Seek’ by iNaturalist to get to know our place.

• Read “For the Beauty of the Earth” by Steven Bouma-Prediger.

• Read “Caring for Creation in Your Own Backyard” by Loren & Mary Ruth Wilkinson

• Check out arocha.ca to learn more and get involved