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Caring for God's world

This Bible study can help us explore our responsibility to care for God’s Earth

2016 Available in English, French, Portuguese and Spanish

Antônio and Edilene's organic farm. Photo: Tom Price-Ecce Opus / Tearfund

A woman walks through a field near her village in Tanzania

From: Reveal toolkit: Climate and environment

Tools that explain climate change and environmental degradation and help communities to protect and care for their environment and adapt to a changing climate

This Bible study is based on Genesis 1, Psalm 24, Genesis 1:26-28 and 2:15, Exodus 23:10-11, Deuteronomy 20:19-20 and 22:6, Psalm 8, Psalm 104 and Psalm 145.

It makes the following key points:

  • The Earth was created by God and he called it ‘good’.
  • The Earth belongs to the Lord.
  • God has blessed us and we are responsible for caring for the Earth.

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