Church has always been potentially just one generation away from extinction. But now with a generation of under-thirty-five-year olds turning away from institutional expressions of Christianity, churches on both sides of the Atlantic must recognise that they face a challenge that is more urgent and radical ...
` ... you received the Spirit of adoption' (Romans 8:15)
The relationship between God and his people is understood in various ways by the biblical writers, and it is arguably the apostle Paul who uses the richest vocabulary.
Unique to Paul's writings is the term huiothesia, the process or act of ...
Adoption has long been a controversial subject in the United States as well as in other western countries, but never more so than in the past three decades. Why that is and how public attention affects the decisions made by those who arrange, legalize, and experience adoptive kinship constitutes the ...