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INSPIRE –
To proclaim God’s Truth about disabilities through Biblical
preaching and teaching
INFORM –
To provide professional consultation, website, seminars, literature
distribution, evangelistic techniques
INVOLVE -
To network churches, ministries, persons with disabilities,
and support organizations
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HOLY
SCRIPTURE INSTRUCTS US TO:
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Participate in the ministry of mercy
and grace toward others.
We who are strong ought to bear with the failings
of the weak and not to please ourselves. (Romans
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Engage in the ministries of evangelism and discipleship.
We proclaim Him, admonishing and teaching everyone
with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone
perfect in Christ. To this end I labor, struggling
with all his energy, which so powerfully works in
me. (Colossians 1:28-29) |
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Bear the special responsibility to value and honor
those with disabilities.
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together
in my mother's womb. I praise you because I am fearfully
and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful,
I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from
you when I was made in the secret place. When I
was woven together in the depths of the earth, your
eyes saw my unformed body. All the days ordained
for me were written in your book before one of them
came to be. (Psalm 139:13-16)
On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem
to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that
we think are less honorable we treat with special
honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are
treated with special modesty, while our presentable
parts need no special treatment. (1 Corinthians
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Work to bring the Body of Christ to completion
by including those who have disabilities.
But God has combined the members of the body and
has given greater honor to the parts that lacked
it, so that there should be no division in the body,
but that its parts should have equal concern for
each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers
with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices
with it. (1 Corinthians 12:24-26)
"Go
out quickly into the streets and alleys of the town
and bring in the poor, the crippled, the blind and
lame." (Luke 14:21) |
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Bless and be blessed when we minister to those
with disabilities.
“But when you give
a banquet, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame,
the blind, and you will be blessed. Although they
cannot repay you, you will be repaid at the resurrection
of the righteous." (Luke 14:13-14) |
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Acknowledge that God gives purpose to those with
disabilities.
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned,
this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
"Neither this man nor his parents sinned,"
said Jesus, "but this happened so that the
work of God might be displayed in his life. (John
9:1-3)
But God chose the foolish things of the world to
shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the
world to shame the strong. He chose the lowly things
of this world and the despised things-and the things
that are not-to nullify the things that are, so
that no one may boast before him. (1 Corinthians
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Teach that God's grace transforms and empowers
the disabled.
But he said to me, "My grace is sufficient
for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness."
Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about
my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on
me. That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in
weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions,
in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong.
(2 Corinthians 12:9-11)
“Come to me,
all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give
you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will
find rest for your souls.” (Matthew 11:28-29) |
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Teach that God promises His presence and strengthening
to those with disabilities.
I will lead the blind by ways they have not known,
along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will
turn darkness into light before them and make the
rough places smooth. These are the things I will
do; I will not forsake them. (Isaiah 42:16)
But those who hope in the Lord will renew their
strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they
will run and not grow weary, they will walk and
not be faint. (Isaiah 40:31) |
And the things you have heard me say
in the presence of many witnesses entrust to reliable
men who will also be qualified to teach others.
JOHN 9 MINISTRIES
INTERNATIONAL, INC.
“That All May See Him”
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