Comments on: Adoption Interview with Sherrie Eldridge, author and adult adoptee

By: Craig Arend

Craig Arend — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:29:41 +0000

“We can learn all the psychobabble we want about adoption dynamics, but there is NEVER ANY peace or healing until there is a spiritual foundation of God’s Word and a personal relationship with Jesus.”

Never? Any? This is absolutist proselytization which gives Christianity a bad name. There are GREY areas in faith as much as people are unique from one another. You can not read peoples minds or hearts (1 Cor 2:11), so stop pretending to be a mind reader. This may have been YOUR individual truth, but isn’t necessarily everyone’s truth.

“The world tells us that adoption wounds are irreparable.”

What world is that?

By: The Ministry of Adoption? « 2worlds1family

The Ministry of Adoption? « 2worlds1family — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:13:53 +0000

[...] 1:27 that we are to look after the widows and orphans. But as Sherrie Eldridge, adoptee and author, says, “There are many Christians who misinterpret the Scriptures about caring for orphans and [...]

By: HLindsay

HLindsay — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 02:55:28 +0000

This article has been a blessing to me. Just this past week I had an opportunity to use my testimony as an adoptee. I believe that God allowed my experiences to help two young Christians who are adopted. Some of the things I shared with them were along the lines of what Ms. Eldridge stated, especially the usage of Psalm 139 and the example of Moses. I just used those examples in my discussion with one person yesterday. But God gets the glory. These are examples He gave me to encourage myself as an adoptee. I am grateful to the Lord for the many ways in which He ministers to our hearts. No matter what our needs may be, God has a way to help us heal and grow and become more like Him each day. Thank you for this article and your ministry to all those who find themselves involved in the adoption process.

By: Adoption, God, and Christianity « It Came from the Cabbage Patch

Adoption, God, and Christianity « It Came from the Cabbage Patch — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:34:24 +0000

[...] Sherrie Eldridge herself admits in this humorous hypocritical interview that the Bible does not “tell Christians to go out and marry off the Widows and adopt the orphans”. What it says, dear readers, is to CARE for them. Allow these children to stay within their own families. How all these Christians are getting it wrong? [...]

By: Dorothy Bode

Dorothy Bode — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:49:50 +0000

Thank you Sherri for this interview! I have read your books and as an adoptive mom, and adoptive sister I appreciate and see the relevence of the messages you have shared. I especially resonate with the reminder that not all people are called to adopt. There are so many wonderful ways to be involved with adoption that we overlook simply because we don't feel the call to adopt ourselves. Advocating, helping financially, creating opportunites, raising awareness, and encouraging those who are called are all important ways to care. Most of all PRAYING that the families that God is calling to adopt would respond to Him in His strength and that the children who are fatherless would come to know the Father and hope through him.

This was the perfect encouaging word for today ~ Thanks!

By: Mark Diebel

Mark Diebel — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 20:56:46 +0000

I love this, “The verse doesn’t say to marry off the widows and adopt the orphans. It says to care for them. This can come in the form of financial aid, mission trips, etc. I’m not saying we shouldn’t adopt, but I am saying that one must be sure that he/she is being CALLED to be a parent. We adoptees don’t like to be a ministry. We just want to be your kids.”

Care of the orphan can take many forms… parenting is one and it is indeed a vocational question.

This is great, “Look at the realities and don’t buy the romanticized view that all these kids need is love. You’ll be sorely disappointed…. Read, educate yourself, pray, talk to others!”

One can find this romanticized view just about everywhere. Educate, Educate, Educate!