All of us know that young people are attracted to the environmental movement.  if we don’t have a thoughtful response and reaction towards the environmentalists, we risk alienating our own Christian young people—who see the stewardship of the environment as a basic responsibility of our political and government leaders. 

Our kids want us to show up on this issue.  So, I did my own research about “green” behavior by surveying 270 TeenPact families and asking them about behaviors they had that were environmentally friendly.  One of the things we can do to counter environmental alarmists is to actually be doing something positive to help the environment.  Here is a list of “green” type lifestyle choices and the percentage of people in my database who do them.

¢Turn off lights in unused rooms—96%

And there are other things we can do:  Riding a bike, or the bus, or buying a hybrid car.  Many electric companies are offering Solar Hot Water Heaters as an option on new homes.

My point is this:  we can be strong evangelicals who care deeply about personal righteousness issues like marriage, family, life, etc. and still exhibit environmentally friendly actions.  We want the next generation of kids coming along in the church to see that we can care about the environment, and that we are doing things like mentioned above to protect the environment and be a good steward of the resources.

What we don’t want to do is force our young people over into the environmental alarmist camp where they are getting ideology that is counter to the Bible.