The Church of South India has started reading the Holy Bible from the perspective of the Earth. And this has led to the publication of a three-part ‘Earth Bible Sermons,’ full of Jesus Christ’s parables on the Earth, to be read during the Sunday service at all its parishes.
“Jesus Christ used parables to make people think. His parables are powerful means to know and transform oneself. Water, air, soil, minerals, energy resources, plants, animal life, and space are to be valued and conserved because they are the very creations of the God. Believers should live in this green reality of the Kingdom of God,” says Bishop Thomas K. Oommen, the Deputy Moderator of the church.
He said the director of the CSI Department of Ecological Concerns, Mathew Koshy Punnackad, was the brain behind the green initiative, which began about two months ago. He said the parables would inspire people to join the CSI movement for a green earth. As many as 15,000 congregations and 4.3 million people of CSI celebrate Ecological Sunday on the second Sunday of June every year.
