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Chargement... Reclaiming Adoption: Missional Living through the Rediscovery of Abba Fatherpar Dan Cruver
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. 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. ( ) The authors do a wonderful job at exploring the theology behind the believer's adoption into God's family. I recommend this book as a way to understanding what it means to be adopted into the Kingdom and then define what that means in our day to day life. The book as a whole was great, but John Piper's ending chapter made the read. He pulls all the heady doctrine and theological, nicely into the practical. 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 21 The last two chapters then take that into the realm of horizontal adoption - orphan care as a mission of the church. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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). Reclaiming Adoption believes 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), to adopt them into His family. That is the Story behind the story of the Prodigal Sons. That 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. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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