Like everything else we do in life after we come to Jesus in surrender and repentance, adoption is an act of faith. The "right" answer is that we adopt as an outworking of our faith, no more and no less. Adoption is God's will. It says so throughout the New Testament, and boy, should we be glad! That's how we were brought into the kingdom and made heirs of the Most High. Our task in the church is to walk with people as they wrestle with God's will and how it intersects with their lives. Maybe the question that we should be giving families an opportunity to wrestle with is: Why shouldn't I adopt? If we know that adoption is God's revealed will, and adoption is His plan A for both bringing us into the kingdom and caring for orphans, then why shouldn't we assume that adoption is God's will for all Christian families and then look for signs that God isn't leading us to adopt!?
Wow!
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