The Centrality of Caring About God’s Interests: His Creation and its Brokenness
The gospel (the good news) is about what God has done for His Creation to redeem it from its state of alienation from Him. The good news of the gospel is an important turning point in the grand story (metanarrative, if you will) which includes other turning points like His original creation, its fall, His redemptive provision in His Anointed One and the eventual consummation of all things in Christ. (We believe that this grand narrative is the context in which all other narratives are to be understood.)
Head of Christ
Antonio Allegri; Getty Museum
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We believe at this point in that narrative His concern is in seeing the redemption of His 
Creation with all that it implies. That is, as a part of His Creation He wishes to see humans reconciled to Himself through the person and work of His Son, but also redeem the other parts of His Creation, which He has subjected to the impact of corruption. (cf. Romans 8: 18 - 23)
Rom. 8:18 ¶ I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Rom. 8:19 The creation waits in eager expectation for the sons of God to be revealed.
Rom. 8:20 For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope
Rom. 8:21 that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.
Rom. 8:22 ¶ We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.
Rom. 8:23 Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
And we, who are a part of His Creation are ourselves broken and in need of redemption; there is a a profound sense in which those of us who have been redeemed by faith in His Son have the privilege and honor of acting as ambassadorial spiritual guides in this redemptive motif. (cf. 2 Corinthians 5:14 - 21)
2Cor. 5:14 For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died.
2Cor. 5:15 And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.
2Cor. 5:16 ¶ So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer.
2Cor. 5:17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!
2Cor. 5:18 All this is from God, who reconciled us to himself through Christ and gave us the ministry of reconciliation:
2Cor. 5:19 that God was reconciling the world to himself in Christ, not counting men’s sins against them. And he has committed to us the message of reconciliation.
2Cor. 5:20 We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ’s behalf: Be reconciled to God.
2Cor. 5:21 God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.