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Doing Justice & loving Mercy:
Environmental Issue

	He has shown you, O man, what is good and what the Lord requires of you…to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
	How many Christ followers take seriously the verse on the right?  Do we ever really pause to consider how we are to tend and care for the earth?  There may be wisdom to be learned from reflecting on the following Native American quote: Humankind has not woven the web of life.  We are but one thread in it.  Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.  – Chief Seattle	The Lord God placed man in the Garden of Eden to tend and care for it…Gen 2:15

Ponder these things:

1. What attitude do you have toward your place in this web of life?  Do you feel that humans are but one thread in it….or the creators/dominators of it?
2. In what ways have you seen your own actions affecting the environment around you?  Have you cared for the web in these actions or destroyed a portion of it?
3. Do you believe God desires for Christ followers to continue to tend and care for this place?
4. In your own sphere of influence, what can you be responsible for with regards to caring for this earth?

Doing Justice & Loving Mercy
Humanitarian Issue
Reconciliation Issue