Michelle

“While none of us will ever speak to anyone with Jesus’ full knowledge of people, we are to pray for the gift of discernment; and we are to give ourselves to the task of loving people well enough that we will desire to get to know them and so be able to speak with wisdom to their struggles, hurts, weaknesses, failings, and needs.”
― Jerram Barrs, Learning Evangelism from Jesus

“Churches that don’t celebrate children aren’t going to celebrate evangelism. After all, the “be fruitful and multiply” clause in Genesis is echoed in the Great Commission of Jesus (Matt. 28:16–20), a mission that also seeks to fill the entire earth.”
― Russell D. Moore, Adoption: What Joseph of Nazareth Can Teach Us about This Countercultural Choice

“Hesed love isn’t just doing love; it is the enjoyment of love. It likes to have parties.”
― Paul E. Miller, A Loving Life: In a World of Broken Relationships

“Children disrupt plans, and blessedly so. They might disrupt yours. It’s easy to resent this disruption and lash out against it, perhaps not in murder but in the anger that’s the root of murder (Matt. 5:21–22).”
― Russell D. Moore, Adopted for Life (Foreword by C. J. Mahaney): The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches