True Christians are members of God's own family, because God has adopted them! Frank Allred suggests that adoption is the greatest of God's blessings because it embraces all the other blessings of the gospel.

He likens it to the hidden steel framework of a great building - unseen and sometimes overlooked, but holding everything together. As he shows, this is not some textbook doctrine only of interest to theologians. Every believer will be enriched by considering the wonders of what God has done to make us his children, the responsibilities that it implies and the glorious future that awaits us.