Freed Indeed Ministries

In this episode of Freed Indeed Live, we learn about what the world calls "blended families" and why there is no such thing in Scripture as a "Step" parent, but there is such a thing as adoption. And we learn how God views adoption.

Watch here: https://youtu.be/gvVn8sPGU9Q?si=LHwtJRUpB9sBzqRH

And share this with your friends, especially children and parents in blended families, so that they too can be Freed Indeed.

St. Joseph pray for us.

Adoption and Blended Families In this episode of Freed Indeed Live, we learn why there is no such thing as a "step parent" in God's economy, and we learn what God says about adoption.Supp...

I started reading this wonderful book, Orthodox Worship by Williams and Anstall today. So far, it is an excellent read. It's very well-written, and it's written at a lay level, so you don't have to have a degree in theology to understand it.

This sentence really struck me as a beautiful and theologically rich explanation of why the Apostles continued to use the liturgical worship of their ancestors when they established Christian worship, as we see in the book of Acts.

It's interesting because when I was in University, we used to debate this a lot. I took whole classes on the book of Acts, and one thing that we would always come back to in class discussions was the topic of why the Apostles are still worshipping liturgically, and more importantly, albeit more uncomfortably for most of my classmates, whether or not this meant that we should be practicing the liturgy as well. I won't go too deeply into the varied answers that myself and my classmates had at that time.

My point is that in this one sentence, we see the question addressed perfectly. Of course the Apostles continued to worship liturgically, that was how God had revealed heavenly worship to be, and it was how God had specified that He desires to be worshipped, but on the other hand, of course they would flesh that worship out differently. Unlike say, Messianic Jews today, who try to take rabbinic Judaism and slap Jesus (or Yeshua, or Yehoshua) on top, the Apostles were able to take the worship of the Old Covenant to the whole world in the power of the new covenant. It was the same worship pattern, but it had a rich new center, not our personal sacrifices, but His once for all sacrifice, rather than the partaking of a human meal offering, we partake of that food which He alone gives, His flesh and blood! Anyway, I highly recommend this book. It's so far the best book I've seen on explaining the liturgy biblically.