My attitude toward adoption was revealing some assumptions that had everything to do with how I was viewing the gospel.

What I wasn't seeing was that I still had this sense of flesh as being real and adoption as being good, but not quite real, which is, of course,

exactly the issue that's going on in the early church.

Welcome to the Crossway podcast, a show where we sit down with authors each week for thoughtful

interviews about the Bible,

theology, church history, and the Christian life.

I'm Matt Tully, and today I'm talking with Russell Moore.

Dr. Moore serves as president of the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention,

the moral and public policy agency of the nation's largest Protestant denomination.

He's also the author of a number of books, including Adopted for Life,

The Priority of Adoption for Christian Families and Churches with Crossway.

In our conversation today, Dr. Moore and I discuss his own family's story of adoption,

common misconceptions about adoption, and why adoption matters for all Christians, even for those who never adopt. Stick around to the end of the show to learn how to win a

copy of Dr. Moore's book. Let's get started. Dr. Moore, thank you so much for joining us today on the

Crossway podcast. Well, thanks for having me. Glad to be with you. So how thank you so much for joining us today on the Crossway podcast.

Well, thanks for having me. Glad to be with you.

So how did you and your wife first start considering adoption as a possible option for your family years ago?

Well, we did not know anybody, I think, that had actually adopted.

So we really didn't have anything to go off of. We had been through a long period of time of infertility and miscarriages.

We've been through at that point three miscarriages.

And doctors had told us, I just don't think you're ever going to be able to carry a child

to term.

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