Thursday, January 24, 2008

Disabilities Minstry in Local Churches

I was reading Faith & Health Wire's blog and saw this post about Special Needs Ministry . This blog lists good information about special needs ministries. This one of the main issues I have with many local churches today. A church is an assembly of believers and is made up of real spiritual people. Now.. when we are talking about "spiritual Christians", we need to figure out what kind of "community" within a local Church. Many churches often treats disabilities, especially with the deaf community as 2nd or 3rd class citizens. A disabled Christian believer can enrich in a Christian community, Christians with disabilities – especially those in positions of leadership can serve as God's best examples of His power being made perfect in weakness. The Bible also teaches us to bear the burdens of someone with a disability fulfils a command of scripture (Galatians 6:2). 2 Samuel 9:3-4 tells the story of David’s kindness to Mephibosheth, the lame son of Jonathan, modeling the way the church should minister.

1 comment:

John said...

Thanks for the link to Faith & Health Wire. I hope to expand our emphasis on disability in the church. We're working on a larger project that would include a much bigger disability and faith area. Thanks for your witness.