The video continues with more individuals and their “flaws”. And have you talked to any family or adult impacted by disability about why they don’t attend church? Their responses should break your heart and help you recognize how little we know and understand disability, and how much needs to change in our faith communities. Did you know that the largest minority in the world are people with disabilities? Just in the US 20% of our population has a disability, yet how many of them do you see at your church? My guess is not many. These two messages permeate our churches and they push people with disabilities away. You see, part of the problem here is that there is a misconception in the Church, even today, that disability is a result of sin – or that people with disability need healing from their disability more than anything else. Yet the woman’s missing limb and the man’s wrongdoings just got presented as equally flawed? The following people and captions had a little of everything, making it hard to see the difference between sinfulness, disability, and illness. Yes, reckless living might be what brings you to your face to recognize the need for a savior and His amazing grace. The next person they show is a man with the caption, “Lives with guilt from reckless living.” What does a woman born with only a portion of her right arm have to do with her needing God’s grace? Wait…no… is that the kind of flawless they are referring to? Like, physically flawless? Because I did not get that from the lyrics, certainly not from the verses I assumed the song was inspired from. I thought we were talking about God’s grace here! “But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners.” Romans 5:8 When they get to the chorus, the camera changes and you see a beautiful woman sitting on a chair with the caption, “Born with only a portion of her right arm.” As they sing, the paint comes off showing the process of becoming flawless. Since the title of the song is “Flawless” my first thought was the paint is the artistic representation of being flawed, right? It’s creative. In artistic form the video begins with a white background and the band members dressed in white, yet they are covered in paint. God’s sacrifice on the cross on our behalf makes us flawless before Him. No matter what you have done, where you come from, what your past is, grace covers it all, all of it. The song, “Flawless,” talks about grace and what grace means. I’m a visual learner, and boy did they do a good job of putting my, “We’re all disabled” view into art form and make me shrink in my seat. After watching Mercy Me’s “Flawless” video I doubt I’ll again compare a sinful bend to a disability. Let me explain what I meant, some people have obvious disabilities while some of us carry disability in our hearts – selfishness, arrogance, bitterness, etcetera. Here’s a confession: I’ve said several times that when it comes to disability, we’re all disabled.
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