This is a guest post by author and pastor Drew Snider. Drew is an online friend. He’s an evangelist and assistant pastor at Gospel Mission on Vancouver’s Downtown East Side…and a self-proclaimed recovering broadcaster.
New on Amazon Kindle: A Very Convenient Truth
Former Vice-President Al Gore recently held a 24-hour TV event about the current state of global warming/climate change, and his former boss, Bill Clinton, told a gathering in New York City in September that “green” industries need billions of dollars of investment in order to succeed and, presumably, save the planet.
News about global warming/climate change is invariably bad, whether it’s coming from the scientists warning us that things keep getting worse and governments aren’t doing or spending enough to fight it, or from those who deny there’s a problem, who say the economy will tank if the measures the environmentalists demand are adopted. A Very Convenient Truth – now available on Amazon Kindle — sets out to break us out of the cycle of Doomspeak, personal attacks and confusion.
A Very Convenient Truth takes the position that Christians – in fact, anyone who believes in the One True God of Israel – hold a significant trump card, which makes all that Doomspeak and the worry and fear that goes with it an absolute non-starter. The Word of God, after all, is nothing but good news: you just have to look for it. The book neither denies the issue nor takes the position of the True Believer, but as you consider God’s promise about “the land” (2 Chronicles 7:13-14), you realize that God has already given us the answers. Anyone can pursue them, they don’t cost a cent and they don’t involve serving the creature rather than the Creator (Romans 1:25).
Part of this “very convenient truth” is that there is an original environmental sin that a lot of us have a hard time recognizing, largely for the same reason that people have a hard time recognizing any sin as their own; also because the world has made the effects of that sin appear to be insurmountable. But for someone who’s in Christ, there is also another Truth: that Jesus’ sacrifice allows us to repent and get on the right track.
A Very Convenient Truth also reminds us that things that are attributed to “global warming” have actually been foretold for thousands of years and that trying to fight against these signs puts us in opposition to God’s Will – very dangerous territory, indeed.
For Christians, the book contains a challenge; God’s promises are always yea and Amen: do you believe that when it comes to the environment, too? For environmentalists, the challenge is, are you broad-minded enough to consider a different approach?
After reading the product desc and 'look inside' I get the impression that Snider is saying recycling is good and we shouldn't litter and good Christians honor God's gift of creation, but we don't need to invest billions in this cause or change our global culture because God is going to "take care of it" (if we turn to God, God will heal the land). I hope I'm wrong, if I'm wrong ignore the next part.
How do we know HOW God is going to heal the land? Supernatural wonder?
God used Cyrus the Great to return the exiled (a political maneuver), couldn't God be using Al Gore?
God can use the Church as weil as the culture, America as well as China, and God can use our political advocacy but not our fatalistic resignation.
Something to consider.
The title of this book is confrontational. You name two (Christian) democrats on one side of the issue but don't name any on the opposing side or the supposedly neutral/spiritual side (which actually favors anti-reformation).
Thanks for your comment. Since it was a guest post and not a review I'll let Drew respond.