Disability and the Gospel
Digital Logos Edition
Overview
Michael Beates’s concern with disability issues began nearly 30 years ago when his eldest child was born with multiple profound disabilities. Now, as more families like his are affected by a growing number of difficulties ranging from down syndrome to autism to food allergies, the need for church programs and personal paradigm shifts is greater than ever.
Working through key Bible passages on brokenness and disability while answering hard questions, Michael offers helpful principles for believers and their churches. He shows us how to embrace our own brokenness and then to embrace those who are more physically and visibly broken, bringing hope and vision to those of us who need it most.
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- Offers helpful principles for believers and their churches.
- Shows us how to embrace our own brokenness.
- Brings hope and vision to those of us who need it most.
Disability and the Gospel tackles head-on the spoken and too often unspoken questions about disability. Well researched and at times provocative, Michael Beates digs beyond the surface in search of reconciliation among the realities of suffering, disability, and the teachings of Scripture. Disability and the Gospel is an important work that reveals not only a biblical worldview on physical disability, but gives comforting confirmation that God is indeed always sovereign, always in charge, and all purposeful.
--Doug Mazza, Former President, Joni and Friends International Disability Center
Mike Beates has been a good friend for twelve years, and I’ve observed his godly character as well as heard and read his insightful teaching. I have read Disability and the Gospel at several stages, and I recommend it highly. The church needs to be awakened to the presence of the disabled in our communities and, as Mike stresses, to the disabilities we all have as sinners in need of God’s grace. The book contains excellent exegesis, theology, and historical studies that make a powerful case. I don’t know a better place to hear God’s Word on this important matter.
--John M. Frame, Professor of Systematic Theology and Philosophy Emeritus, Reformed Theological Seminary
Why should the church embrace people with disabilities? Because they need us? Perhaps. But in Disability and the Gospel, Michael Beates reminds us that the transforming power of the gospel can only be ours when we, the able-bodies, admit our own brokenness and weakness and learn the truth that God uses the weak people of this world to confound the wise. The church has as much to learn form people with disabilities as she has to give to them.
--Dawn Clark, Director of Disability Ministries, College Church, Wheaton, Illinois
- Title: Disability and the Gospel: How God Uses Our Brokenness to Display His Grace
- Authors: Michael S. Beates, Joni Eareckson Tada
- Publisher: Crossway
- Print Publication Date: 2012
- Logos Release Date: 2012
- Pages: 192
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
- Subjects: People with disabilities › Religious life; Disabilities › Religious aspects--Christianity; Disabilities › Biblical teaching; Grace (Theology)
- ISBNs: 9781433530487, 9781433530456, 9781433530470, 1433530481, 1433530457, 1433530473
- Resource ID: LLS:9781433530487
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-03-06T20:43:26Z