We adopted, and while we didn't go into it because we saw it as a ministry...we quickly saw that God was making it one.
Through fost adopt, we had social workers coming in and out of our home and were able to see us live out our faith...good and bad days and all.
We were able to have a hand in prison ministries by writing to our dd's birth mother while she was incarcerated for doing meth while pregnant. Our hearts grew so soft towards those behind bars that we have contributed to Prison Fellowship Ministries.
Other Christians have decided that maybe God was pricking at their heart to be open to foster care and adoption.
I find your pastor's opinion about ministry interesting. Christ did not come to heal the well...I am not saying the body does not need to be ministered to, BUT to limit ministry to only the body is not what God intended...IMO.
Christ's ministry was not limited to the temple...he was out with the people. The dying, the broken, the hopeless...we are to be imitators of Christ. Not everyone is called to the same kind of ministry...we are all different parts of the same body. We need to seek God and find where HE wants us to be the hands and feet of Jesus. (Again...IMO)
Not everyone's ministry is called for the many...sometimes, God wants people that are willing to minister to the few...the ones who are easily forgotten or unseen.
If God is asking "Whom shall I send"...I know that we please Him when we say, "here am I, Lord send me."
God bless you! Adoption has been a HUGE blessing to our family!
2 Timothy 2:15
Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed and who correctly handles the word of truth.
