Why and How to Serve Those with Disabilities in Your Ministries
Paul reminds us that our friends living with disability are indispensable to the body of Christ. A church without disabilities, then, becomes an incomplete church.
Too often, I have treated the Bible as a prop in the play called “My Life” rather than as the living, active Word of God. At times, I’ve been content to see Scripture as merely useful—which it certainly is—without stopping to behold it as beautiful.

Paul reminds us that our friends living with disability are indispensable to the body of Christ. A church without disabilities, then, becomes an incomplete church.
Jesus Christ did not disciple his followers through detached prompts, but through embodied presence, sacrificial love, correction, suffering, touch, communion, and covenant relationship.
The gospel tells us that God, who knows all things, is not hiding from us but instead went and stood in the very shame we’re trying to hide. All this is so that, as his Word says, “Everyone who believes in him will not be put to shame” (Rom. 10:11).
The more humans begin to think of themselves (or act) as machines, the further we drift from our true identity. Even more concerning is the possibility that society may begin to value artificial or humanoid intelligence over actual human beings.
The younger generations are hungry for a place to belong, and that is what the gospel gives us through the local church. In Jesus, we who were once far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ (Eph. 2:13).
Rooted team members Isaiah Marshall and Chelsea Erickson talked with the Fuller Youth Institute’s Brad Griffin about FYI’s recent research-based study on Generation Alpha.
