Study Guide for the ELCA’s social message Earth’s Climate Crisis
Welcome to “Our Kairos Moment,” a study guide for the ELCA’s social message “Earth’s Climate Crisis.” In this guide you will find four sessions designed to dig more deeply into major themes from the social message. Each session is intended for a 60-minute, small-group learning experience. The study guide works best when groups can use all four sessions, but each session can be used independently with minor adjustments.
Within each session you will find learning activities, Bible studies, ideas for prayer and lessons drawn from passages of the social message. The end of each session features “Make One Change,” an activity that encourages and equips members of your group to do one thing on their own, between your meetings perhaps. The activities in “Make One Change” are simple opportunities to learn more about what we can do as people of faith to care for God’s world. If you do all four sessions with your group, by the end you should have a display of all the “changes” your group made during your time together. This can be a tangible reminder of active hope.