In saying that creation is the theatre of God's glory we mean that in the whole of the creation God bestows his life and power and reveals his glory. Human beings are indeed God's creatures, and fellow-creatures with the rest of creation. The whole stands "under the sign of the rainbow", and, redeemed by God in Christ, participates in the promised hope of fulfilment in Christ, the first-born of all creation.

Human beings, created in the image of God, have been given special powers and responsibilities in creation. It is the abuse of these powers and the abdication of these responsibilities which threaten creation. In our time, the main threats are environmental abuse, economic injustice and nuclear war. The church's task in the face of these threats is to declare in word and specific action its hope, founded in God's love, righteousness and peace.

1. "Christ is our peace."

In our world, threatened with obliteration by nuclear war, the obligation of Christians to work and pray for peace is paramount.
This involves a fundamental commitment to resolve conflicts without the threat or use of force; the renunciation of new weapons of destruction; a halt to the arms race and to the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; the promise between nations not to use available means of mass destruction in the event of war.

And we resolve as follows: "WARC calls upon its member churches and the individual members thereof to regard the question of peace as not merely a political question but as one that immediately concerns our commitment to the God of peace; to support in their respective societies by all means available to them all measures towards nuclear disarmament; to support the concerted action of the international community for disarmament; and in particular to urge the nations to take unilateral initiatives toward this end."

2. "He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee but to do justly..."

There is no peace without justice. Economic injustice is everywhere a denial of God's purpose for creation.
Economic injustice takes many forms: unfair distribution of wealth; economic systems which perpetuate inequalities and concentrate power at the expense of the powerless; the manner in which certain multinational companies operate - all of which are related to the denial to the poor of a proper share in decision-making affecting their destiny.

And we resolve as follows: "WARC calls upon its member churches and the individual members thereof to identify in their respective societies the poor and the oppressed as well as the forces which cause injustice in other countries; and to support in word and action full justice for the poor, including the recognition and redress of past injustices and the provision of open access to those decision-making centres of society that determine social and individual destiny."

3. "The earth is the Lord's, and the fullness thereof."

God, creator and redeemer, seeks justice and wholeness for all creation.
This wholeness is threatened by misuse of human power in many ways: pollution, wanton destruction of wild life and natural resources; indiscriminate exploitation of minerals; disturbance of the balance of nature; the effects of atomic wastes and nuclear testing.

And we resolve as follows: "WARC calls upon its member churches and the individual members thereof to identify in their respective societies the principal threats to the natural environment as well as the forces which cause ecological damage in other countries; to accept responsibility for resisting these threats; and to support in word and action all efforts towards responsible care and stewardship of the world of nature."