Posted on 05/08/2014 7:23:02 AM PDT by Gamecock
Full Title: Obama Spiritual Adviser and Megachurch Pastor Joel Hunter Launches Interfaith Initiative to Tackle Climate Change
Florida pastor Joel Hunter is launching an initiative that empowers multifaith leaders to lead and engage others on climate solutions.
The initiative, called Blessed Tomorrow, brings together more than 20 evangelical, Catholic, Protestant, Muslim and Jewish leaders who are committed to working with their congregations and communities in response to climate change.
Blessed Tomorrow empowers faith leaders from across religious traditions to both steward Gods creation and inspire their congregations, communities and other leaders to do the same, a statement says.
Faith leaders and their communities have been at the forefront of moving America forward throughout our nations history. From abolition to human rights, we have been there to answer our call to care for all of Gods creation. Blessed Tomorrow builds on that tradition by bringing together a diverse group of leaders from across the country who are committed to making an impact on one of the greatest moral imperatives of our timeclimate change, says Hunter, senior pastor of Northland, a Church Distributed, in Central Florida.
The Blessed Tomorrow website provides resources that leaders can use to inspire and empower their congregations and communities. It also allows congregations to create a Path to Positive plan, which helps congregations be better stewards of Gods creation.
You wrote: “Itll be great to see this guys congregants desert him.”
Many of them don’t even know he said this:
Joel Hunter: “Ive been in conversations with organizations ..like Hezbollah. The enemy is never as scary or threatening up close.”
HERE:
January 20, 2012 Good News in the Public Square
http://www.pastorjoelhunter.com/?p=823
“Weve developed a consumerist, self-centered culture. That feeds into pre-emptive war because we fear that theyre going to take away what I have. Or Government programs are going to take away my hard-earned dollars. There are remnants of that now, in right-wing talk radio Limbaugh, Hannity, Michael Savage - just awful.
Heres what I think the enemy is: the luxury of being simplistic, of not understanding how complex problems are and how much cooperation is required to solve them. Evangelicals went through a period where we formed homogeneous affinity groups. You cloister together and think everybody else is the enemy.
One reason Im thrilled with Obamas presidency is that he likes a broad spectrum of perspectives. Out of those he will glean a practical solution good for everyone. Hes got the intellectual capacity to handle the job.
Ive been in conversations with organizations our government cant even talk tolike Hezbollah. The enemy is never as scary or threatening up close. ...”
**The enemy is never as scary or threatening up* *
Until they they send a suicide bomber and blow you up!
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