'...just as the culture works hard to bury the reality of our sin and mortality, so too often does the church. While we confess our belief in salvation by grace alone, we all get properly dressed and work quite hard to appear clean, healthy, and whole (too often for all the wrong reasons). True spirituality does not project an image of superiority or power or "togetherness." Rather, true spirituality is quite ordinary and transparent in its shortcomings and weaknesses. The Lord Jesus, in his humanity was quite ordinary and even weak. Like all of us, he was ordinarily weak as an infant in the manger and extraordinarily weak and vulnerable on the cross.'
Michael S Beates, Disability & The Gospel, p.79.
