In large part, the responsibility to care for vulnerable kids and struggling families has been inappropriately placed on the backs of politicians and government employees with the expectation that they do something they were never really intended to do in the first place. As a result, a vastly broken and flawed system has emerged that is overworked, overwhelmed, under resourced and overly criticized. The government is not in the family restoring and family building business. The Church is. Kids in foster care are not the states kids, they are Gods kids and therefore as the Church they are our kids too. Our responsibility. Our burden. Our mission. Our job. Not the governments. When it comes to defending the weak, protecting the vulnerable and seeking justice in the midst of chaos and brokenness, no entity is more exceptionally equipped and clearly mandated to take an active lead than the Church. We are those who celebrate a God whose grace is sufficient in our weakness, whose promises bring peace in our insecurities and whose love compelled Him to send a Rescuer on our behalf to engage in our brokenness and fight victoriously for our justice. This is not just what we joyously celebrate within our walls at church but also what we are called to tirelessly demonstrate in the lives of those around us as the Church. Thats not the role of the government. Thats the Church. Im increasingly convinced that the appropriate posture the Church should take towards the government-run Child Welfare System is not one of indictment and criticism but one of humility and repentance. Confession that we, as the Church, have dropped the ball, passed the buck and outsourced a problem to them that was only and ever intended to be solved by us. Foster Care: Why The Church Can Stop Outsourcing Child Welfare
Posted on: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 00:30:00 +0000
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