helping people with disabilities on this edition of Truth in Love.

I'm Heath Lambert and you're listening to Truth in Love, a podcast of the Association of Certified

Biblical Counselors, where we seek to provide biblical solutions for the problems that people face.

All of us live our lives in the midst of people who have disabilities. These are our family

members. They are our friends. We go to work with these people. They go to our schools. They are in our

churches. And we want to talk on the podcast

this week about how to show love and care in a gospel-centered way to people who are

struggling with these unique challenges. Our guest on the podcast this week is Ethan Holstein.

Ethan Holstein is the teacher in the Adult Development Academy at the

Down syndrome of Louisville. He is a graduate in biblical counseling. He's one of my students, and I have a lot

of respect for this man who has a heart, both for caring for people who are struggling with

problems, and also in particular caring for people

with disabilities.

Ethan, we're glad you're with us this week, and I wonder if you can help us think through

why Christians should be concerned about helping people who struggle with disabilities.

Yeah, that's a good question.

People should be concerned about doing ministry with people with people with disabilities because just in short, they need Jesus. We see in Genesis 1 that

all people are made in God's image, and we see that in Psalm 139, all people are made

fearfully and wonderfully. But we need to keep going further. And in Genesis 3, we see that all

people are sinful. And no one does good. And all are under God's condemnation. So we need to be doing

disability ministry because people are made in God's image and they're sinful and they need

Jesus. And in Jesus' earthly ministry in the New Testament, we see that he cares for the blind

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