BreakPoint Q&A: Adoption, Kids, and How Do We Support God's Family Structure?
Breakpoint
Colson Center
4.8 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 29 September 2021
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
This week John and Shane discuss adoption, ranging from embryo adoption to same-sex adoption. A listener asks how adoption supports God's family structure and what the role of it is in God's redemption.
Another listener writes in noticing a movement to single-parenthood in their region. The listener asks how to move forward with friends, when those friends are offended by Scripture.
Later, John and Shane consider how and when to use modern quotes in BreakPoint and when to use Scripture. John gives a listener perspective on why we use quotes so often, and how we consider using Scripture in specific situations.
To close, John and Shane explore a question asking for clarity on marijuana. John provides good context into the difference in medical marijuana and recreational marijuana.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Breakpoint podcast and our Q&A segment Ask the Colson Center. I'm Shane Morris, |
| 0:05.8 | host of the upstream podcast and one of the writers for Breakpoint. I'm joined today by John Stone |
| 0:10.4 | Street, president of the Colson Center and the voice of Breakpoint, and we're here to answer your |
| 0:14.7 | questions. All of these were sparked by Breakpoint commentaries, short courses, articles, and the |
| 0:19.9 | Colson Fellows program. If you'd like to send us a |
| 0:22.1 | question of your own, you can do that by emailing us at Ask the Colson Center at colsoncenter.org. |
| 0:28.5 | John, we got a lot of good questions today, and I want to jump right into it. The first is a question |
| 0:33.2 | that pertains to something that my sister and her husband are up to right now, which is trying to |
| 0:39.2 | adopt. |
| 0:39.8 | And this is obviously a big subject with many different facets to deal with. |
| 0:43.5 | But this is a good question. |
| 0:45.1 | I like the spirit of it. |
| 0:46.1 | And there's just a lot to discuss here. |
| 0:48.7 | So this person writes in, there was much discussion during last week's Ask the Colson Center |
| 0:53.4 | in which she talked about the importance of birth, mother, and father in raising children. |
| 0:58.4 | There have been many of us who have chosen to adopt children. |
| 1:01.1 | Where does adoption fit into the discussion? |
| 1:04.7 | Adoption is the most merciful, gracious, and hope-giving, restorative thing you can do to handle the brokenness |
| 1:12.7 | of God's created design of the family. That's the way that when something goes wrong, hope can |
| 1:18.8 | be given. There's been nothing like it. There was a wonderful article in Christianity today, |
| 1:24.6 | probably over a decade ago. That called adoption the New Reformation. |
| 1:27.9 | It's hard to overstate this. |
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