SEASON OF CREATION 2024 WEEK 6
Overview week 6
It’s a great delight to be able to include the Book of Job [Chapter 1 ] in the Season of Creation, with its profound recognition of our special, but not superior place in the whole scheme of Creation. Psalm 126 Wrestles hopefully with God and the demands of public witness. Genesis 2 will reward some very careful reading: are the ‘companion’ creatures, whom the human being is called on to give name, rustled up for this purpose, or is God’s call to give them names a special, and humble privilege for humanity of initiating relationship with Creation? Psalm 8 is a famous ‘creation Psalm’ but contains some interesting challenges about the position of humanity with other creatures, echoed as the Psalm is quoted in Hebrews 1.
The pastorally sensitive passage on marriage from Mark 10 also leads us into the implications off ‘possessive ownership’ and allows us to raise the question :” are we living with the harmful results of a human ‘divorce’ from the God-given mutual relationship of love, care, and perhaps discipline, in a framework of justice?
Guest Writers: Andrew Norman of Green Christian, EcoCongregation Staff,
Songs for Sunday: 6th October Trinity College Glasgow
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