Stats are clear that the best possible environment for a child to be raised in is with one mom, one dad, living together. For sure, sometimes that doesn't work out. Divorce happens, spouses die, tragedy befalls. But the ideal is still there: children do best when raised by mom and dad.  But what if we told you that RIGHT NOW there are over 44,000 children living without a mom or dad in the US foster care system? And that the average age of these children is 6 1/2? And that children who age out of the foster care system face grave disadvantages later in life, compared to children who live with their parents? And that adoption is an incredible blessing to the adoptive parents and a powerful way to carry out your own piece of Christ's Great Commission to the church? Today on the Think Podcast, it's Worldview Wednesday with Joel and Pastor Raef, and we're going to look at adoption from a biblical perspective, and how the glorious Christian teaching on adoption collides head-on with the world's culture of abortion and death. Maybe you'll get to the end of this and still say adoption isn't for you, but you owe it to yourself at least to listen in. Let's do this.

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