Description: The gospel of Jesus Christ--the good news that through Jesus we have been adopted as sons and daughters into God's family--means that Christians ought to be at the forefront of the adoption of orphans in North America and around the world. Russell D. Moore does not shy away from this call in Adopted for Life, a popular-level, practical manifesto for Christians to adopt children and to help equip other Christian families to do the same. He shows that adoption is not just about couples who want children--or who want more children. It is about an entire culture within the church, a culture that sees adoption as part of the Great Commission mandate and as a sign of the gospel itself.
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Russell D. Moore is the dean of the School of Theology and senior vice president for academic administration at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. The grandson of a Mississippi Baptist preacher, he also serves as a preaching pastor at Highview Baptist Church, where he ministers weekly at the congregation's Fegenbush location. He writes and speaks frequently on topics ranging from the Kingdom of God to the mission of adoption to a theology of country music. He is a senior editor of Touchstone and also blogs regularly at Moore to the Point. He is the author of several books, including The Kingdom of Christ, Adopted for Life, and Tempted and Tried.