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Apr 25 2008

Abiding in the Father

 

One doctrine I was not familiar with growing up in a church was the reality of adoption, or sonship.  This is the reality that when one becomes a Christian, he or she becomes a son or daughter of God.  God becomes our father, our daddy.  As Christians, we are his children.

 

J.I. Packer, in his book Knowing God, explains it this way,

 

 “What is a Christian? The question can be answered in many ways, but the richest answer I know is that a Christian is one who has God for his Father.

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