Oh, wow! Thank you so much for posting this!
I am working toward starting a church specifically for the disabled. I just started another thread so I need to keep checking that one, but I’m going to come back to this discussion when I can.
We serve an awesome God!
If you weren't aware of it before, I highly recommend Corrie Ten Boom's short book on that very subject, Common Sense Not Needed. She also mentions it in her book The Hiding Place
"Your other activities, Miss ten Boom. What would you like to tell me about them?"
"Other activities? Oh, you mean - you want to know about my church for mentally retarded people!" and I plunged into an eager account of my efforts at preaching to the feeble-minded.
The lieutenant's eyebrows rose higher and higher. "What a waste of time and energy!" he exploded at last. "If you want converts, surely one normal person is worth all the half-wits in the world!"
I stared into the man's intelligent blue-gray eyes: true National-Socialist philosophy I thought, tulip bed or no. And then to my astonishment I heard my own voice saying boldy, "May I tell you the truth, Lieutenant Rahms?"
"This hearing, Miss ten Boom, is predicated on the assumption that you will do me that honor."
"The truth, sir," I said, swallowing, "is that God's viewpoint is sometimes different from ours - so different that we could not even guess at it unless He had given us a Book which tells us such things."
I knew it was madness to talk this way to a Nazi officer. But he said nothing so I plunged ahead. "In the Bible I learn that God values us not for our strength or our brains but simply because He has made us. Who knows, in His eyes a half-wit may be worth more than a watchmaker. Or - a lieutenant."