{"id":932,"date":"2012-03-22T07:00:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.totellyouthetruth.net\/?p=932"},"modified":"2012-03-22T07:00:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-22T12:00:19","slug":"god-did-not-call-us-to-adoption-but-to-adoption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/?p=932","title":{"rendered":"God Did Not Call us to Adoption but to Adoption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>God has not called my family to pursue adoption, but God has called us to adoption.  Let me explain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>My brother and his family <a href=\"http:\/\/www.togetherforadoption.org\/?p=3755\" target=\"_blank\">pursued adoption because God led them to pursue it<\/a>. As a result God led my family to pursue adoption&#8211; what I call extended adoption.  Adoption does not happen in a historical vacuum, nor is adoption limited to the immediate family.  Those of us in the extended family have been called to adoption along with them.<\/p>\n<p>We support, accept, and love these children who have been adopted.  In fact, I can&#8217;t help but treat the adopted children like any other child in the family.  After all, they are Cruvers. They have the full rights and privileges of the  Cruver household &#8211; even the extended Cruver households.<\/p>\n<p>Adoption is a family affair, an extended family affair.  It is a community affair.<\/p>\n<p>God, Who is the eternal Community of Three in One, extended Himself in the Spirit to include all those who believe in Jesus, thereby establishing an extended community of persons.  (See <a href=\"http:\/\/www.togetherforadoption.org\/?p=10287\" target=\"_blank\">this video for background to what I mean<\/a>).  All those who believe in Jesus are included in the family of God with the full rights and privileges of being God&#8217;s sons and daughters.  We are born into God&#8217;s family within the confines of community.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, those adopted in a family are also adopted into the extended family, into the confines of familial community.<\/p>\n<p>God did not call us to adoption but to adoption.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>God has not called my family to pursue adoption, but God has called us to adoption. Let me explain&#8230; My brother and his family pursued adoption because God led them to pursue it. As a result God led my family to pursue adoption&#8211; what I call extended adoption. Adoption does not happen in a historical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[46],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adoption","tag-adoption-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3hM8I-f2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/932\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davecruver.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}