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“ We get too comfortable with this orphanage universe, though. We sit in our pews, or behind our pulpits, knowing that our children watch Christian cartoons instead of slash films. We vote for the right candidates and know all the right worldview talking points. And we're content with the world we know, just adjusted a little for our identity as Christians. That's precisely why so many of us are so atrophied in our prayers, why our prayers rarely reach the level of groanings too deep for words (Rom 8:26). We are too numbed to be as frustrated as the Spirit is with the way things are. ”

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When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. They didn't know that a strange man feeding them their first scary gulps of solid food wasn't a torturer. Life in the cribs alone must have seemed to them like freedom. That's what I was missing about the biblical doctrine of adoption. Sure it's glorious in the long run. But it sure seems like hell in the short run. . . .

~ Russell D. Moore

We don't persuade our neighbors by mimicking their angry power-protests. We persuade them by holding fast to the gospel, by explaining our increasingly odd view of marriage, and by serving the world and our neighbors around us, as our Lord does, with a towel and a foot-bucket.

~ Russell D. Moore

Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

~ Russell D. Moore

sexuality isn’t ancillary to Christianity, in the way some other cultural or political issues are. Marriage and sex point, the Bible says, to a picture of the gospel itself, the union of Christ and his church. This is why the Bible spends so much time, as some critics would put it, “obsessed” with sex. That’s why, historically, churches that liberalize on sex tend to liberalize themselves right out of Christianity itself.

~ Russell D. Moore