“All of the body of Christ is called to care for widows and orphans in their distress,” said Russell Moore during his December 4th talk about adoption at the Family Research Council. Moore, Dean of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary’s School of Theology, and author of Adopted for Life: The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches explained how adoption is central to the Gospel of Christ. It is so important, he said, that “The New Testament starts with an orphan-protecting act of adoption,” as Joseph “takes into his family a woman and a child, and becomes a father.”
“There is a tendency to think of reality as being simply about bloodlines and DNA,” Moore said, but “if adoption does not create something real, then you and I do not have a real gospel.” Moore, who is an adoptive parent himself, admitted he did not always understand the true nature of adoption, and used to differentiate between “real” and “adopted” children. He pointed out that “Those who think that adoption is just a means to fill a void within a family’s life do not understand what is taking place when God is calling us to care for orphans.”
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