Pastor David Michael on God’s Good Design in Disability – repost
August 5, 2012 by John Knight
I’m taking a break from blogging for a few days. This first appeared in March 2010. Just the Way I Am is now in its third printing! It is available through Christian Focus.
Is Just the Way I Am simply the product of a family, particularly one young woman, who has made ‘lemonade out of lemons’ by persevering through hardship and now has a good story to tell? Or is there something much more profound, God-centered and God glorifying happening?
David Michael is the Pastor for Parenting and Family Discipleship at Bethlehem, and has been an advocate for the disability ministry at Bethlehem from before its beginnings. Here is what he has to say about God’s work in Krista Horning’s life:
Nearly a decade has passed since I first met Krista and her family. Her teen years proved to be fruitful and life-shaping. For Krista, Apert syndrome was not a curse to be endured; it was an asset to be invested.Her Maker had a plan for her life and that plan was unfolding before our eyes. Her heart had been uniquely shaped in a way that gave her special understanding, special love, and special influence with other disabled children. She volunteered her time to bless these children and the organizations that serve them.
Our church has many members, and Krista is one of them. There are varieties of gifts and varieties of service. Krista has been given her portion and she has not wasted it.
From Just the Way I Am: God’s Good Design in Disability, p. 54.
The entire Horning family is very special to me. Krista served my own son for several years before they started attending the South Campus.
But this book is not primarily about Krista – it is rightly focused on God and his good, sovereign design as evidenced in Krista’s life and the lives of all the children who are pictured.
What God is doing through young people like Krista Horning is exciting and life-giving! And I can hardly wait for more of you to see this book to better understand who our God is – great and mighty in all his ways, kind in all he does, and sovereign over all his creation.
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Pastor David Michael on God’s Good Design in Disability – repost
August 5, 2012 by John Knight
Is Just the Way I Am simply the product of a family, particularly one young woman, who has made ‘lemonade out of lemons’ by persevering through hardship and now has a good story to tell? Or is there something much more profound, God-centered and God glorifying happening?
David Michael is the Pastor for Parenting and Family Discipleship at Bethlehem, and has been an advocate for the disability ministry at Bethlehem from before its beginnings. Here is what he has to say about God’s work in Krista Horning’s life:
From Just the Way I Am: God’s Good Design in Disability, p. 54.
The entire Horning family is very special to me. Krista served my own son for several years before they started attending the South Campus.
But this book is not primarily about Krista – it is rightly focused on God and his good, sovereign design as evidenced in Krista’s life and the lives of all the children who are pictured.
What God is doing through young people like Krista Horning is exciting and life-giving! And I can hardly wait for more of you to see this book to better understand who our God is – great and mighty in all his ways, kind in all he does, and sovereign over all his creation.
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