adoption

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What is adoption? Receiving God’s inheritance

by Joel Radford

In these articles, we’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism, published in the 17th Century. Recently, we’ve been looking at the mediation Christ brings to the church. We saw that part of Christ’s mediation involves adoption, which is an act of God’s free grace whereby […]

What is adoption? Having God’s fatherly care

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in the 17th Century. In particular, we’ve been looking at the communion the church has with Christ and the mediation Christ brings. We saw that part of Christ’s mediation involves adoption, which is an act of God’s […]

What is adoption? Having the Spirit of God’s son

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in the 17th Century. In particular, we’ve been looking at the communion the church has with Christ and the mediation Christ brings. We saw that part of Christ’s mediation involves adoption, which is an act of God’s […]

What is adoption? Being a child of God by grace

by Joel Radford

We’ve been going through an old list of questions and answers contained in the Westminster Larger Catechism published in the 17th Century. In particular, we’ve been looking at the communion the church has with Christ and the mediation Christ brings. We saw that part of Christ’s mediation involves justification: being made right with God. Now, […]

What is adoption?

by Joel Radford

We have been looking at how believers in Jesus are described in the Bible. Last week we saw we are ‘justified’ before God. Another way that we will look at today is ‘adoption’: ‘he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ’ (Ephesians 1:5). But what does it mean to be adopted […]