What Happens When We Become Christians

“This is what happens when we become Christians. Christ assumes our liabilities and graciously gives us his assets.”

- Timothy S. Lane & Paul David Tripp, How People Change (Winston-Salem, NC: Punch Press, 2006), 55.

(HT:Fi)

Spotlighting The A.M.B.E.R Adoption Fund

(by: jt)

You can find a couple of encouraging spotlights here & here.

Which serves as another great opportunity for us to encourage Grace Church to seek the Lord’s leadership about making a special gift to the A.M.B.E.R Adoption Fund as part of your ‘Summer of Spreading Christ.’

Our summer giving goal for the AAF is $5,000, which will immediately be matched by two generous & God-honoring organizations (you may visit them here & here). Just think about it for a moment… $10,000 (and growing) ready to assist qualified families in the (sometimes financially burdening) joy of welcoming a precious new life into their home. If you are interested in giving toward this fund, simply mark “AAF” on the memo line of your check.

I’m especially encouraged that the A.M.B.E.R fund may be used of the Lord to foster a wider awareness among Christians that human adoption should be seen as an outgrowth of eternal adoption. Although we live in a culture where adoption is usually only considered by couples battling infertility, the Lord would be honored, and His adopting love exalted, if more Christian families would consider “growing” because of an overwhelming awareness of His adopting love for them. Siblings would be benefited, families would have multiplied joys, and most of all, eternal redemption would be mirrored for all the world to see! Because, as Amber Mathenia’s life so beautifully exemplified, Adoption Magnifies the Beauty of Eternal Redemption.