We believe the truly flourishing person is bright, socially adept, and healthy. But what do we do with people who have dementia or Alzheimer’s? Or what about those in our churches who have physical or mental disabilities? According to our cultural values of power, their lives have functionally ended. Yet if identity and personhood are defined not by earthly power but by God’s grace, then we are in a different position. If we lose our mental or physical capacities, a thorn in the flesh remains; but we are still capable of flourishing in dependence upon God. In fact, it is here where we can be
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