Rev. Marshall Lawrence explains how Christians can reach out to deaf people with the love and compassion of Christ. “Only 2% [of those who are deaf] know Christ as Savior.”
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Silent Blessings Deaf Ministries: Raising and Reaching the Deaf – Audio | Transcript
This testimony by Marshall Lawrence to the state of deaf outreach was a convicting reminder that there are tremendous ministry opportunities in our own backyard. The statistics that Marshall gives about the number of Christian fathers who do not bother themselves to learn their children’s native language are not just staggering, they’re inexcusable. I wept over this, for those children who are growing up without fathers and for those fathers who are losing their children. I wept, too, for the child that had to discover that Jesus knows sign language. Every child needs to be taught the greatness of our God. She should know that the God who created her can understand her, knows her language, knows her thoughts and her heart, that He loves her and died to be with her.
… most deaf people today will be born, will grow up, will live, and will die without ever once having seen the gospel presented to them clearly in their own language…Marshall Lawrence
We should should not pity the deaf that they cannot hear as we do; most of them do not have a problem with it. We ought to feel compassion for the deaf because a majority of them do not know Christ as their Lord and Savior, and are missing the unsurpassed joy of living life in obedience to Him and for His glory. My prayer is that no matter where God finds me, or where He finds you, that you will have His compassionate heart for the lost, that you and I will be His hands, and if the hearer is deaf, that those hands would be ready to sign the Word of God to those who cannot hear them in our language. Jesus knows sign language, but do His disciples?
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