Common Ground Christian Church

Take Good Care

Stewarding the Good Gifts of Creation

The first two chapters of Genesis tell the story of God’s intentions for creation. He had a plan for how the world would function and, upon completion of His creative design, He said that it was good. God set humankind in this space as caretakers and stewards of this good plan. Genesis 3 tells the story of how humankind rebelled against God’s good design and how the current state of creation is experiencing death and chaos. The rest of the Scriptures tell the story of God’s activity within creation to bring about redemption and restoration. In the person of Jesus, God has brought into our world the possibility of new creation and a mandate for those who follow Jesus to return to their vocation as caretakers of the good gifts of creation.

In the book, The Age of Authenticity, Charles Taylor writes, "The great challenge of the modern world and secularism is to locate authority in the self. Each of us has our own way of realizing our humanity and that it is important to live our own authentic self, resisting the authority of culture, religion, previous generations, politics or institutions."

The scriptural narrative provides a trustworthy and transcendent vision for what God intends. God alone, as the author of all things, has the authority and, therefore, we locate our identity in His vision for us and the world. The Gospel of Jesus is both an invitation and demonstration of what it looks like to submit to God’s vision for the flourishing of all creation. In this series, we explore what it looks like for us to be caretakers of God’s good creation.

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