Dr. Russell Moore wrote a book which I highly recommend, Adopted for Life. You can read Owen Strachan’ excellent post on Adopted for life on his web site. Dr. Moore recently shared what he and his family have learned in the ten years since adopting their two sons.
Ten years ago today, my wife and I walked out of a Russian orphanage with two little one year-old boys. Suddenly, for the first time, I was a father and she was a mother. Suddenly, little Maxim was “Benjamin Jacob Moore” and little Sergei was “Timothy Russell Moore.” Everything changed, for all of us, for life.
As I’ve written in the book, God used this experience to upend my whole life. He taught me much about his Fatherhood, much about the gospel, much about community, and much about the mission of the church. But people sometimes ask me, “In the years since, what have you learned about becoming a family through adoption?”
The main thing is . . .
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