5 Jul 2010
Adoption and Theology?
I read an interesting editorial this weekend in Christianity Today (yeah, I know, it’s the 4th of July weekend – read a spy novel – well I read part of one of those too)…..
What was so interesting about it? It made a couple of points about how the church is getting involved in caring for orphans. The main reason?
Because adoption most closely mirrors what God has done for His children.
Think about it. What God did was to take children who had no hope, no future and nothing to live for and gave them everything. Everything that matters – a hope, a future and something to live for.
I’m seeing and hearing a LOT about churches who are getting more and more active in caring for orphans.
Ask yourself, should you and your church be more involved in caring for the orphans of the world?
Is God calling your church to get involved in caring for the orphans in Haiti?
If the answer to either of those is at least a “maybe” then we would love to talk to you about the ways your church can help GLA help the kids in Haiti.
On behalf of the kids, thank you.
Tom Vanderwell
Adoption and Theology from Christianity Today
……But more often, I hear people talking theologically about adoption, highlighting it as the act that most directly mirrors God’s actions toward us. I don’t hear many guilt trips or apocalyptic warnings. Instead, I hear echoes of one of J. I. Packer’s comments in Knowing God: “Our understanding of Christianity cannot be better than our grasp of adoption.” Moore helps us grasp it much better, starting here.
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I just took a foster to adopt class and it was held at a church which was just beginning a program on how Christians can begin to help the children that do not have homes in their own communities. They talked a lot about how you do not necessarily have to foster a child to help a child. The earthquake in Haiti was the beginning of my own searching for what I can do to help children in Haiti and other countries as well as children right here in my own community. Thank you for this article.
Jennifer
Jennifer
July 5th, 2010 at 12:44 pmpermalink
Jennifer,
Thank you. I think that one of the good things that we’re seeing already from the terrible tragedy is that many more people are waking up to the fact that there are many ways that people can do something for the kids of the world who don’t have a forever family. Thanks!
Tom
Tom Vanderwell
July 5th, 2010 at 4:37 pmpermalink