What does the Bible say?
Foster care is a Church problem, not a state child welfare problem. It is a Gospel issue first, not a government issue. The Church has both the duty and privilege to speak on behalf of and stand for the sake of those who cannot speak and stand for themselves because that is exactly what God has done for us through Jesus. That's the Gospel. What does God say and how does He feel about the orphans, fatherless, displaced children? Plenty…
· Isaiah1:17 - Learn to do right; seek justice. Defend the oppressed. Take up the cause of the fatherless; plead the case of the widow.
· Psalm68:5-6a – A father to the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his holy dwelling. God sets the lonely in families…
· Deuteronomy10:18 – He executes justice for the orphan and the widow, and shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.
· Psalm146:9 – The Lord protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, but He thwarts the way of the wicked.
· Romans8:15 – For you have not received a spirit of slavery leading to fear again, but you have received a spirit of adoption as sons by which we cry out, “Abba! Father!”
· Ephesians1:4-5 – For he chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will…
· Proverbs23:10-11 –Do not move the ancient boundary or go into the fields of the fatherless, for their Redeemer is strong; He will plead their case against you.
· Psalm82:3 – Defend the cause of the weak and fatherless; maintain the rights of the poor and oppressed.
· Deuteronomy 27:19 –“Cursed is he who distorts the justice due an alien, orphan, and widow.” And all the people shall say, “Amen.”
· Zechariah7:10 – And do not oppress the widow or the orphan, the stranger or the poor; and do not devise evil in your hearts against one another.
· Proverbs31:8 – Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute.
· Matthew25:40 – The King will reply, “I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me.”
“Foster care is a Church problem, not a state child welfare problem. It is a Gospel issue first, not a government issue.”