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		<title>By: jesse</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2009 03:25:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I like how the guy above me comments with a blog post of his own!  Good post, I think we can say the same things about religion.
Peace,]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I like how the guy above me comments with a blog post of his own!  Good post, I think we can say the same things about religion.<br />
Peace,</p>
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		<title>By: Joel Hickenbottom</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:43:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was at the Earth Day Fest a year and a half ago in Ojai when the LEEDS guy brought up that &quot;the next thing is BLUE&quot;. I thought the very last bit in the BLUE article was funny:

How do I use it in a sentence?
&quot;I&#039;m totally into the environment,&quot; she says as she updates her status on Facebook, &quot;but I&#039;m the type of person who&#039;s BLUE and not only green.&quot;

Hahaha.

Wow-so that&#039;s all I was going to say until I began to fill in my personal info to submit this comment and it hit me—I wonder if the coming push to BLUE is humanity&#039;s take on the Gospel of the Kingdom. Because as you know, I&#039;ve struggled with Green from the get-go, not as a bad idea, but an incomplete one. Blue is way closer to solving the frustration in my heart about Green. At least Blue has goals and a concentrated push of the three values behind it. 

But as I was saying—maybe, just maybe, the real answer we all need, even the Church (because Gods knows they don&#039;t get it at all) is the Gospel of the Kingdom that encompasses Green, Blue, and every other spectrum of the rainbow with the promise from God himself that He will not destroy the earth again. Unfortunately, that doesn&#039;t mean we ourselves are free from destroying it. For better or worse, He has entrusted it to us to care for it because &quot;the earth is the Lord&#039;s and everything it&quot;—man, woman, animal, plant, land, water, sky.

It&#039;s great that our faith and our God is mindful of all these things. He&#039;s mindful to the concerns of the planet that is groaning and the sparrows and the blades of grass, as much as He is mindful to the my own yearnings, cries and desires in my own life. And then on top of it, the renovation He does in my heart to pursue His heart makes me love the things He loves which is the groaning planet, the sparrows and the blades of grass and my brothers and sisters around the world with their own yearnings, cries and desires. It&#039;s a cyclical faith that we live where the outflow of our relationship with Him spills out ONTO and INTO the world around us and if that is not happening in our lives, then we are missing some integral points to the whole Gospel itself.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I was at the Earth Day Fest a year and a half ago in Ojai when the LEEDS guy brought up that &#8220;the next thing is BLUE&#8221;. I thought the very last bit in the BLUE article was funny:</p>
<p>How do I use it in a sentence?<br />
&#8220;I&#8217;m totally into the environment,&#8221; she says as she updates her status on Facebook, &#8220;but I&#8217;m the type of person who&#8217;s BLUE and not only green.&#8221;</p>
<p>Hahaha.</p>
<p>Wow-so that&#8217;s all I was going to say until I began to fill in my personal info to submit this comment and it hit me—I wonder if the coming push to BLUE is humanity&#8217;s take on the Gospel of the Kingdom. Because as you know, I&#8217;ve struggled with Green from the get-go, not as a bad idea, but an incomplete one. Blue is way closer to solving the frustration in my heart about Green. At least Blue has goals and a concentrated push of the three values behind it. </p>
<p>But as I was saying—maybe, just maybe, the real answer we all need, even the Church (because Gods knows they don&#8217;t get it at all) is the Gospel of the Kingdom that encompasses Green, Blue, and every other spectrum of the rainbow with the promise from God himself that He will not destroy the earth again. Unfortunately, that doesn&#8217;t mean we ourselves are free from destroying it. For better or worse, He has entrusted it to us to care for it because &#8220;the earth is the Lord&#8217;s and everything it&#8221;—man, woman, animal, plant, land, water, sky.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s great that our faith and our God is mindful of all these things. He&#8217;s mindful to the concerns of the planet that is groaning and the sparrows and the blades of grass, as much as He is mindful to the my own yearnings, cries and desires in my own life. And then on top of it, the renovation He does in my heart to pursue His heart makes me love the things He loves which is the groaning planet, the sparrows and the blades of grass and my brothers and sisters around the world with their own yearnings, cries and desires. It&#8217;s a cyclical faith that we live where the outflow of our relationship with Him spills out ONTO and INTO the world around us and if that is not happening in our lives, then we are missing some integral points to the whole Gospel itself.</p>
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