Creation Care And Ecological Peacemaking

In this message, Mark turns the conversation about peacemaking to creation. Exploring scriptures and quotes from theologians, this sermon seeks to move us into a restorative relationship with Creation. www.thevineaustin.org REFLECTION QUESTIONS: 1. What is your favorite landscape? 2. Why is a consumeristic relationship with nature problematic and opposite the way of Jesus? 3. What is something from the sermon that has stayed with you- either as an encouragement, confusion, or frustration? 4. Read Colossians 1:15-16, 19-20. How do these verses frame our understanding of Jesus and Jesus' mission? 5. Discuss Romans 8:19-23. How do you see mutuality and the calling for peacemakers? 6. What is a practice you are considering in response to the call to make peace within creation?