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    Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living Through the Rediscovery of Abba Father

    Written by Dan Cruver, John Piper, Richard Phillips and Scotty Smith

    Narrated by Jason Younger

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    One of the ambitious dreams that Reclaiming Adoption and its authors share with the Apostle Paul is that when Christians hear the word adoption, they will think first about their adoption by God. As it now stands, Christians usually think first about the adoption of children. Reclaiming Adoption sets out to change this situation by providing breathtaking views of God's love for and delight in His children - views that will free you to live boldly in this world from God's acceptance, not in order to gain it.

    Reclaiming Adoption begins by examining Jesus' Parable of the Prodigal Son because it ultimately puts God the Father's love on display - a love that embraces the younger son with uninhibited joy (Luke 15:20) and goes out to entreat the self-righteous older son to come join the celebration (Luke 15:28). The book is premised on the belief that behind the Parable of the Prodigal Son(s) is Scripture's teaching on adoption. The story of the Bible is that God the Father sent his only true and eternal Son on a mission, and that mission was to bring many wayward and rebellious sons home to glory (Hebrews 2:10) in order to adopt them into His family.

    That is the Story behind the story of the Prodigal Sons. It is the only story that gives our stories any meaning or significance.

    Dan Cruver and his co-authors are convinced that if Christians learn to first think about their adoption by God, and only then about the adoption of children, they will enjoy deeper communion with the God who is love, and experience greater missional engagement with the pain and suffering of this world. That's what this book is about. What the orphan, the stranger, and the marginalized in our world need most is churches that are filled with Christians who live daily in the reality of God's delight in them. Reclaiming Adoption can transform the way you view and live in this world for the glory of God and the good of our world's most needy.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherEChristian, Inc. Audio
    Release dateJan 1, 2011
    ISBN9781610451970
    Author

    Dan Cruver

    Dan Cruver and his wife, Melissa, are parents of a multi-ethnic family of three children. Dan is the director of Together for Adoption, an organization that provides gospel-centered resources to mobilize the church for global orphan care. Dan is a frequent conference speaker and writer. He has a M.S. in Counseling and 90+ hours toward a Ph.D. in Theology. Prior to directing Together for Adoption, Dan was a college professor of Bible and Theology and a Pastor of Family Ministries.

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    • 3/5
      Short and to the point, and pretty good. The structure of the book surprised me, as I expected to see more on our acts of adopting and the first three quarters or so is much more focused on framing a theology of adoption, with the focus on God's adopting us. That's important, so I'm glad it was there; it just wasn't how I expected the book to go.
    • 4/5
      A very encouraging and convicting study of our adoption as children of God and how that should change how we live. A good study of the concept of adoption, why it is important that we truly understand it, and how that affects us and the way we live our lives.“One way to look at adoption is to see it as God’s work to free us from the insanity and duplicity of our idolatry.” p 21The last two chapters then take that into the realm of horizontal adoption - orphan care as a mission of the church.