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Consumption and Lifestyle

This initiative explores the profound impact of consumer society on our environment and personal well-being. Highlighting the urgent need for change, it advocates for a "Sabbath lifestyle" centered on rest, renewal, and community engagement. By promoting principles such as wise consumption, ecological cycles, and community living, the initiative encourages individuals to prioritize relationships and sustainable practices that care for creation. Through education, conservation efforts, and local missions, participants can facilitate a shift towards a more harmonious and balanced way of living in today's disposable society.

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Consumption and Lifestyle

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  1. Consumption and Lifestyle Margot Hodson John Ray Initiative Sage

  2. State of the World 2004 www.worldwatch.org

  3. The Impact of the Consumer Society • Environmental damage • Exploitation: Two-Third’s World • Damage to ourselves

  4. The Cycle of Renewal • So God blessed the seventh day and hallowed it, because on it God rested from all the work that he had done in creation. Genesis 2:3

  5. Sabbath Lifestyle Principles • Rest • Life as a cycle of work and renewal • Community centred

  6. Sabbath for Rest • Work-and-spend • Downsizing • Give rest to others + wise consumption + creation care

  7. LOAF • Locally Grown • Organic • Animal friendly • Fairly traded

  8. Sabbath - Life in a Cycle of Renewal • Disposable society • Ecological cycles • Cradle to cradle

  9. Sabbath and Community • Giving time to family and friends • Shared meals and homes • Local

  10. Community MissionA Rocha, Southall • Value to whole community • Country park • Education • Arts programme • Scientific work

  11. Community Living:Sage • Practical conservation • Lifestyle discussions • Church presentations • Walks and holidays • Encouragement and support • Prayer and outreach

  12. Trust • Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these. Matthew 6:28-29

  13. Repentance • “Any change deep enough to protect life on the planet will have to be a repentance. It will have to be that concrete. No ‘deepening’ consciousness, no change in ‘perspective,’ no keeping back with the Joneses will do. We have to turn around in the places where we stand.” Lionel Basney

  14. Towards Glory • I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us. Romans 8:18

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