Saturday, December 11

The very heart of the gospel

The joyful news of the gospel is that God the Father brings us to share in the loving communion that he forever enjoys with his eternal and natural Son through the work of his eternal and natural Son in our place and in our stead. Through adoption God graciously brings us to participate in the reciprocal love that ever flows between the Father and his Son. Not only is this the very heart of adoption; it is also the very heart of the gospel.

— Dan Cruver
Reclaiming Adoption
(Adelphi, Md.: Cruciform Press, 2011), 27