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carbon fast

40 everyday, small activities to reduce your carbon footprint
40 everyday, small activities to reduce your carbon footprint

Climate change isn't an opinion, it isn't a touchy subject and it isn't a a controversial discussion...it's a fact and we want to do something about it.

The Message translates Romans 12:1 as, "So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering."  Paul is saying that life is all about joining all of the everyday, small events together and giving them completely to following Jesus.

Question is though...what does this ACTUALLY look like!?

Take the carbon fast as an example: 40 days of everyday, small events that will help to reduce your carbon footprint.  But how does turning off a light bulb connect with our spirituality?

Our reliance on oil based products like plastic and cars contributes to climate change, which affects weather conditions all over the world, droughts and floods to name a few.  That's an injustice, we use a car or plastic cup and others get the floods.

We're all connected to the world around us.  But the things that fill our lives up make it too easy to ignore those connections.  The next bit of that Romans verse says this, "Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it wihtout even thinking.  Instead, fix your attention on God.  You'll be changed from the inside out."

Check out the carbon fast today and join us during Lent as we reduce our footprint. Click here

If you can't do any of these actions because you're not the person who pays the gas bill for example...please try to persuade someone who does.  Ta muchly :-)

 

This page was last updated on 15 April 2009


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