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This from Anthony Bradley <\/a>over at The Resurgence<\/em>:<\/p>\n

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America has nearly 115,000 orphaned kids in foster care waiting to be adopted. Some wonder how this is possible in a country with Christian families. Surely there are 115,000 missional families in America, right? Missional families, for example, embrace the redemptive mission of God and practice \u201ctrue religion\u201d in their local communities (James 1:27). Missional Christians in America could eliminate the foster care system tomorrow \u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cReligion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world,\u201d writes James (1:27). As a matter of fact, the Bible has over 40 verses mandating God\u2019s people to look after orphans and the fatherless for various reasons \u2026<\/p>\n

If your church is not cultivating an ethos that practices \u201ctrue religion\u201d it may not be missional at all. It may be dying or sinking into a consumeristic, entertainment quicksand where people come to have their \u201cfelt needs\u201d stroked. Your pastor might wear \u201ccool\u201d clothes, have a \u201ccool\u201d blog, or be in the process of trying to make God and Jesus androgynous, but God seems to care that his people are being led by capable men who lead the rest of God\u2019s people in bringing the Kingdom to their local neighborhood in all its forms.<\/p>\n

While not all Christians are gifted or equipped for taking in orphans, it\u2019s pretty convicting that 65 million American evangelicals can\u2019t rescue 115,000 kids from an unstable hell. If the pagans in our neighborhoods aren\u2019t struck by how our churches are applying the Word of God to the needy, it\u2019s possible that we aren\u2019t the real deal yet. May we all pray that our churches are soon as mature as James commends. The revolution continues . . .<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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