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Speaker: Welcome back to the Raising Autistic Disciples podcast. My name is Lara Roberts and I am on a mission to learn how my autistic son Graham learns best for the sake of the gospel.
Speaker: Today, friends, I want to start a four part series about something I've wrestled with for quite a long time. and If I'm honest with you, i'm really kind of nervous about even beginning this, but um I'm getting so many DMs that I feel like it's necessary and through prayer and study, here we are starting a four part series on autism and healing.
Speaker: I've wrestled with this topic personally being my personal conviction and where I stand on the topic in terms of how it relates to autism. And I'm, I'm, I'm, again, I'm going to be completely, completely honest with you.
Speaker: Uh, let me just use a Southern phrase. How about that? Have you ever heard someone say that they won't touch something with a 10 foot pole? You ever heard that said, it means that, that they are not going to even get near or approach a topic of conversation.
Speaker: Well, Up until recently, i just have not wanted to touch this subject with a 10-foot pole. Healing and autism. ah Publicly, that is, right? i'll I'll sit down have a cup of coffee until you answer questions and things like that. But publicly on Instagram, the Lord is helping me, through it through the Holy Spirit and time in His Word, know how to...
Speaker: steward this platform and people in my dms that ask questions and and it frankly the reason why i have not wanted to touch it is there's just way too many opinions and interpretations to decipher uh that the idea of wading into those waters is just it's exhausting i'm not going to lie okay um quite frankly i just really want to say friend read your bible Go read your Bible. Spend time with Jesus. Make your own conclusion. And then let's go on our merry way on this race toward eternity. Right?
Speaker: ah Do we have to argue over interpretations on healing? just And that's the reason why. But like I said, the Lord has given me this platform to steward this podcast to talk about issues and things like that that we're wrestling with. And so... I feel like it's time. I feel like I've i've put it off a little bit, but also I feel the Lord leading. And so um as many of you who I know listen to this podcast, if you're prayer warriors, will you please just pray about this series? That um one, I would not outpace my sanctification. i would not speak ah with authority as Lara Roberts, but only authority based on scripture. And so i'm I'm so grateful for those of you who do pray. But In this four part series, I'm i'm definitely not going to be doing any arguing. I can tell you that. Lara's tired, right? we got We got stuff going on. We got all the things. I don't, I'm not, just not, it's not my personality either. I'm just not going argue. um Mainly because I'll be talking solo. Okay.
Speaker: to myself. Um, and that would be quite, quite interesting if I had an argument, just me here sitting in this room recording, right. You know, um, can't say that will never happen that I won't, I talk to myself all the time, obviously, but, um, uh, yeah, but i I won't be doing arguing. So here's the deal. Okay.
Speaker: Here's the deal. Uh, I can't shy away from this topic any, any longer. Right. Two years ago when I posted my first video on Instagram in an effort to encourage other parents raising autistic disciples, I never would have dreamed it would be what it is today.
Speaker: I prayed and asked God to help me be a gospel influence on the internet, on Instagram as a fellow sister in Christ navigating raising autistic disciple. So fast forward to today and I can see a pattern in my DMs of you all asking questions. To which I do not have all the answers to many of them. However, there is something to be said about talking through issues we are wrestling with. And that's what I want to do with this podcast, Raising Autistic Cyples, is talk about issues we're dealing with and point us to the scriptures.
Speaker: um So this healing and autism series is that. okay um So if you're driving while listening, if you're washing dishes or sitting in car line, wherever... We're going to pray before jumping into this because this is a topic where we need every topic is, but this one and specifically. So if you're driving, keep your eyes open. But if not, would you would you join me in praying?
Speaker: Lord God, we pray to you, our Father, through your Son, Jesus Christ, who has made a way for us to come boldly before you, God. We pray by the power of the Holy Spirit working in us to help us understand your word and the truth of it.
Speaker: We know some things are a mystery that only you can know. That only you know. And that is for our good that we don't know some of them. But you have revealed yourself and your truth for us to follow after. And I ask, Holy Spirit, that you be with me as I have this conversation of parsing out what you've taught me.
Speaker: And I pray for the friend listening that their hearts would be open, not to my words or my thoughts or my convictions, but to your word. the one true source of all truth.
Speaker: Help us be good students of your word, Lord. And God, please equip us to raise autistic disciples who know and love you forever. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. All right, friend, let's jump in.
Speaker: Okay, here's why I'm splitting this up into four different episodes, autism and healing episodes. I've realized there's more than one question here. There are a bunch of questions tangled together in this conversation. Here's just a few. Can God heal autism? Should I pray for healing?
Speaker: Does my autistic child need to be healed? What do i do when another Christian family says their child was healed of autism? And what do I do when I have prayed and my autistic, my child is still autistic? You see how many questions are tangled up in this whole conversation? Those questions can can get especially complicated inside Christian spaces spaces because people have strong convictions about this topic.
Speaker: And I'm coming into this series, no I'm not coming into this series pretending like I have every one of them answered. Like I said, I don't. I'm one of you asking the same questions too.
Speaker: There are things I'm deeply certain about because I believe scripture is clear. And there are other things where I think the most faithful answer I can give is, i don't know.
Speaker: i don't know. That can be my answer to a lot of the questions. And it will be. But as good students of the Bible, we have to be okay with that. That there are mysteries that God in his wisdom has simply not revealed to us. Deuteronomy 29 says the hidden things belong to the Lord our God, but the revealed things belong to us and our children forever. There are hidden things and there are revealed things. And I think sometimes we get ourselves into a the into theological trouble when we demand certainty about something God has chosen to leave hidden.
Speaker: If God hasn't told me through his word, I don't need to fill in the blank for him. That's very dangerous if I try to. I can trust that whatever he has chosen to reveal in his word is enough for my obedience and whatever he has chosen not to reveal is safe in his hands.
Speaker: Mystery isn't a flaw in my theology. Sometimes mystery is the boundary God has given my theology.
Speaker: And what I mean by that is this. I don't have to have an answer for everything in order to have a good theology. Sometimes good theology actually means knowing where to stop.
Speaker: It means I can go as far as scripture goes. And when scripture stops, I stop. I don't need to fill in the silence with my best guess and then call my best guess biblical certainty.
Speaker: And friend, I think that's really important for this conversation because there are questions about autism and healing where I can open my Bible and say, yes, I know this is true. God has told me this.
Speaker: But there are other questions where I can make observations. I can tell you what I think. I can tell you where I've personally landed, but I need to hold those things differently. Which brings me to a word that is going to matter a whole lot in this conversation and in the series. And that word is certain.
Speaker: What does it mean for me to say that I am certain about something? Because I can be convinced of something and still be wrong.
Speaker: I can feel strongly about something or a topic and still be wrong. I can have an experience that was incredibly meaningful to me and real to me and still interpret that experience incorrectly.
Speaker: I can hear somebody else's testimony and believe every word they're telling me about what happened to them without necessarily knowing what conclusion I should draw from it.
Speaker: So when I use the word certain in this conversation and in this series, I'm not talking about how strongly I feel about something. I'm talking about what I have warrant from scripture to stand on.
Speaker: Okay? There are things God has revealed clearly enough that I can plant my feet there. Jesus Christ has all authority in heaven and on earth.
Speaker: Certain. Jesus commanded his disciples to go and make disciples of all nations. Certain. Salvation is through Christ. Certain. God hears us when we pray. Certain. God is able to heal. Certain. Christ will return and one day make all things new. Certain.
Speaker: Now, does God intend to remove my son's autism on this side of eternity? I don't know. I'm not certain. And those three words don't scare me nearly as much as they used to because my obedience does not depend upon knowing the answer to every hidden question.
Speaker: Is that clear as mud as as we go to continue? Certainly. Right. Okay. There are things i can know because God has revealed them. There are things i can believe and hold as a personal convictions. And then there are things that I simply do not know because God has not told me in his word. And I want to be really careful throughout this series, not to give you all three of those categories, not to give all three of those categories the same weight.
Speaker: Okay. So let's take that framework and actually apply it to autism and healing. This certain word, okay?
Speaker: Before we get into anybody else's testimony of an autistic kid being healed, the ones that you've probably seen while scrolling Instagram, right? Before we talk about that or even what I actually pray for my gram or before we wrestle with what someone even means when they say their child was quote, healed of autism, I want to start by simply telling you where I have landed theologically.
Speaker: And let me preface. Big preface here. Okay? You know I love a good preface. This is Lara Roberts' stance. It does not have to be yours. I'm not asking you to borrow my conviction.
Speaker: But if we're going to spend time in the next few episodes unpacking this thought and this topic of autism and healing together, I think you need, I need to tell you what I believe before I can tell you why I believe it, right? It's just kind of a natural order of things.
Speaker: So here we go. I hold two things together. I believe God is sovereign and good and I believe God can heal. I don't see those as competing truths.
Speaker: God is creator. He is sovereign over my autistic son's life and our entire family's life. And I believe the God who created human beings, who created our bodies and our brains, has complete authority over both. So if you ask me this question,
Speaker: Lara, could God heal your son's autism? My answer would be yes, absolutely. And let me be very specific about what I mean by that.
Speaker: If by healing, you mean that God... creator of all things, sovereign over all things, could alter my autistic son's neurological functioning so dramatically that he no longer met the diagnostic criteria for autism?
Speaker: Yes. God could do that. God can do that. I have no theological hesitation saying that because we're talking about the power of God.
Speaker: But, and this is where the distinction becomes really important here, okay?
Speaker: God's ability to do something and God's promise that he will do something are not the same thing. I am certain God can.
Speaker: I'm not certain God will. Certain. Remember, certain. i don't I don't know God will tomorrow or a minute from now. Okay, those are two very different theological statements.
Speaker: Psalms 115.3 says, our God is in heaven and does whatever he pleases. Daniel 4.35 says, no one can block his hand. And I think sometimes in conversations about healing and autism, we accidentally collapse them into one. We reason like this, if God can heal and God is good and I pray in faith, then surely healing is what he intends to do.
Speaker: But we just made a huge jump there. We've moved from something God has revealed about his ability to do a conclusion about his specific will in this particular situation.
Speaker: I'm going to say that one more time. we we When we say something like, if God can heal and God is good and I pray in faith, then surely healing is what he intends to do.
Speaker: But we've just made a jump. We've moved from something God has revealed about His ability to then a conclusion about His specific will in a particular circumstance.
Speaker: And I need scripture to give me permission to make that jump. And oftentimes it does not. Because God's power tells me what He's able to do. God's promises tell me what I can be certain He will do. i am certain God can. i am not certain God will.
Speaker: And those aren't always the same thing. Let me give you some examples. God was able to remove Paul's thorn. Okay, he was able to, right? God is able to do all things. So he was able to remove Paul's thorn, but he never promised he would.
Speaker: God was able to spare James from Herod, but he didn't. While he delivered Peter from prison, Jesus was able to heal every sick person at the pool of Bethesda, but John tells us that there was a multitude of sick people there and records and records Jesus healing one.
Speaker: Jesus was able to keep Lazarus from dying, but intentionally remained where he was for two more days before going to Bethany. And Jesus himself prayed, if you are willing, take this cup away from me. And yet submitted himself to the Father's will over and over and over again. Scripture shows us that God's ability to do something does not automatically mean he has promised to do it in every particular circumstance.
Speaker: Let me also, while I'm here, state a huge fact. God is not limited by neurology, genetics, developmental trajectories, or diagnoses.
Speaker: He is God.
Speaker: So for me, can God, that question, can God, is actually the easiest question in this entire conversation to answer. Yes, God can.
Speaker: But I think there's another question that Christians sometimes accidentally treat as though it's the same question. Has God promised that he intends to remove my autistic son's autism on this side of eternity?
Speaker: And my answer to that question is again, I don't know. I can't find that promise in scripture. It's not there. Now, I know some of you may immediately have verses come into your mind that you believe do promise physical healing.
Speaker: And if that's where you land, okay, that's where that's what your response, my next question you would simply be, are you reading those passages in context?
Speaker: Because biblical literacy, being good students of the Bible, matters in this conversation. For example, I get all the time, Isaiah 53, 5, by his wounds we are healed.
Speaker: It's often used as a blanket promise of of physical healing. Friends, Isaiah is talking about transgressions, our iniquities, our sin, the punishment that brought us peace. And when Peter picks up that same language in 1 Peter 2, he connects Christ's wombs to him bearing our sins so that we might live for righteousness. Isaiah is not saying, by his wombs, your autistic kid is promised must the removal of autism during his entire his earthly life.
Speaker: He ain't saying that. Okay. Now, this may be a little bit of a soapbox of mine and I can already feel myself climbing into a different episode. So here's my point. Okay. I cannot find a promise in scripture that God will remove my Graham's autism during his earthly life.
Speaker: That doesn't mean he won't. It does not mean he I shouldn't ask. It does not mean God can't. It simply means I don't know because I'm not God.
Speaker: And I refuse to turn God can into God promised unless scripture gives me permission to do that. So the distinction between God can and God has promised has been incredibly important for me. And here's why. God's ability does not automatically establish God's intention.
Speaker: One more time, God's ability does not automatically establish God's intention. God can do something without having promised me that he will do it. And if I blur those two things, I can i can very quickly get myself into some difficult theology.
Speaker: Dangerous actually. God can heal, therefore God will heal. that Nope. That's dangerous theology. God can heal, therefore God will heal.
Speaker: Don't go there, okay? God heals, therefore if healing hasn't happened, somebody did something wrong. You see where this is going? This is what that leads to. Maybe I didn't pray enough. Maybe I didn't believe in enough. Maybe I accepted the diagnosis too quickly.
Speaker: Maybe I accommodated for something I should have prayed against. Okay, wait. Okay. Time out. Wait a second. Where did God promise me the outcome?
Speaker: I'm now accusing myself of failing to receive.
Speaker: There's a passage that has helped me tremendously with this. Okay, with this distinction being made here of of don't don't jump to that dangerous conclusion quickly. And here it is. In Daniel 3, we all know it. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego are about to be thrown into the fiery furnace because they refuse to worship Nebuchadnezzar's image. And their response is so compelling to me as a 21st century reader, especially living in a Christian culture that can sometimes equate faith with certainty that God is going to give us the outcome we're praying for.
Speaker: Because listen to their faith. ah and Daniel 3. They don't deny God's power. They don't doubt his ability. They also don't presume to know what he's going to do.
Speaker: They tell the king that their God is able to rescue them. And then they say, essentially, but even if he doesn't, even if he does not, we will still what?
Speaker: We will still not worship your man-made gods, little g-gods, your image. Don't miss it. They declare before they're about to die.
Speaker: Because the flames are there, friend. They are there but they declare before they're about to die. Or they or you know they think they're about to die. God can. And even if he doesn't, those statements belong together.
Speaker: They had absolute confidence in God's ability without claiming certainty about God's intention.
Speaker: They weren't saying, if we have enough faith, God has to produce the outcome we want. Their faith was rooted in who God is, not their ability to predict what God is going to do next.
Speaker: And that's where I've landed with my son's autism and healing conversation. God, you can. And if you don't, you are still a God. You are still good. You are still sovereign. You still love my son. I still trust you and I still will obey.
Speaker: That's important because biblical faith is not certainty about my preferred outcome. Biblical faith is confidence in God.
Speaker: He is who he says he is and he can do what he says he can do. I can boldly ask. I can pray specifically. I can leave the outcome with him though. And we're going to spend an entire episode talking about what I actually pray for Graham because trusting God's sovereignty has not made me pray less, friends. If anything, it has given me the freedom to pray more honestly.
Speaker: But here's the cool part. I love this. Here's the cool part. It has also given me somewhere to put the things I don't know.
Speaker: And there's a lot I don't know. There's a lot I don't know. I don't know about Graham's, and what a Graham's adulthood would look like. I don't know what his skills, what skills he'll develop. I don't know what things are going to be difficult today that will be easier tomorrow. I don't know what God may dramatically change. I don't know whether god Graham will always meet the diagnostic criteria for autism. Remember what we talked about at the beginning, hidden things and revealed things. What does God intend to do with Graham's autism over the course of his life? That's one of the places where I have to say, i don't know.
Speaker: But there are things he has revealed. God has revealed, right? In his word. There are things God has made incredibly clear and certain. And that brings me to probably the most important sentence in this entire series. So if you have something to write this down, write this down. It's my main point. It's my thesis, right? It's the it's the stake I keep driving into the ground. Okay? So...
Speaker: I want you to also write it down. Remember, if you disagree with me this whole entire time, okay, that is totally fine. But I am saying this sentence is important, right? The sentence is important. And here it is. Okay.
Speaker: I am more theologically certain about the Great Commission than I am about whether God intends to heal my son's autism on this side of eternity.
Speaker: Okay. I am more theologically certain. There's that word. I am more theologically certain my stake is in the ground. i This is 100% about the Great Commission than I am about whether God, who knows all things,
Speaker: Creator of the universe, right? Whether God intends, that's another key word in the sentence, intends to heal Graham's autism on the side of eternity. Why? Why why am i why is that my my main point sentence thesis? Because one is explicitly commanded. The other is not explicitly promised.
Speaker: because one is explicitly commanded, the other is not explicitly promised. And just for repetition sake, I'm gonna say it one more. I am more theologically certain about the great commission, go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit, than I am about whether God intends to heal Graham's autism on this side of eternity, because one is explicitly commanded, the other is not explicitly promised. Let me parse that out.
Speaker: Because one is explicitly commanded. Okay? By explicitly, I mean I don't have to infer it. Meaning I don't have to piece verses together or wonder what Jesus meant. He said it.
Speaker: Go make disciples, Larry Roberts. Go make disciples. Who make disciples. The other, the part about what God intends to do on this side of eternity, like God removing my son's autism during his earthly life, it's not explicitly promised.
Speaker: I cannot show you a passage where God has promised me that outcome. In Matthew 28, the risen Christ Jesus says, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. And then he tells his followers, Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations. There's something I don't have to wonder about. Friends, make disciples. I don't have to know everything God intends to do with Graham tomorrow, but I do know what he has commanded me to do with Graham today.
Speaker: Okay, let's take a time I need you to say that right now with your kid's name in it. I don't know everything God intends to do with tomorrow, but I do know what he has commanded me to do with today.
Speaker: Say it right now. I don't know everything God intends to do with your kid's name tomorrow, but I know what he has commanded me do to do with your kid's name today.
Speaker: And that realization, friends, has been incredibly freeing for me because I am not required to settle the healing and autism debate before I get busy with the Great Commission.
Speaker: I can wrestle with healing and theology. I can pray. i can ask questions. I can listen to other Christians. I can study scripture. I can even change my mind about certain some things as I learn.
Speaker: But while I'm doing all of that, Graham is right here in front of me.
Speaker: My autistic son is right here in my home. And today is another day the Lord has given me to breathe and walk this earth. He's given me another day to raise an autistic disciple.
Speaker: And I intend to do just that through the power of the Holy Spirit. I don't need to wait to see whether his diagnosis changes before I can teach him scripture. I don't need to wait for communication to become easier before I teach him how to pray. I don't need to wait for some future version of my autistic kid before I start asking how this child learns so that for the sake of the gospel can teach him about God. That is the entire reason raising autistic disciples exists. I am learning how my autistic son learns best for the sake of the gospel. Because the gospel message doesn't change, but the method in which we deliver it might have to in order for learning's sake. And how my autistic son's brain is wired.
Speaker: And learning that, learning about his neurology is not evidence that I don't believe God can change it Accommodating Graham today is not making a theological declaration about what God might do tomorrow. I simply desire and want to be faithful with the child God has entrusted me today.
Speaker: So if you're listening to this and thinking, okay, Lear, but where am I supposed to land on all of this? Well, friend, i'm I'm not going to tell you.
Speaker: I want you to open your Bible because you don't need to build your theology of healing and autism from me. Don't build it from your pastor alone. Don't build it from an Instagram reel. Please don't build it from an answer Instagram reel of another family's testimony, okay?
Speaker: Go read scripture. Read the healing accounts in the gospels. Read Daniel 3, John 9, 2 Corinthians 12, Romans 8. Read Matthew 28 and the Great Commission. Study what scripture says about healing, suffering, prayer, sovereignty, resurrection, and the promises of God. And ask, what does scripture explicitly say?
Speaker: I'm certain of, right? And what has what has God actually promised? Then ask these, what am I assuming? Where am I confusing what God can do with what God has promised to do?
Speaker: And where do I need enough humility to say, i don't know. And then pray. Ask the Holy Spirit to help you. Ask God to teach you. Ask him to correct you where you're wrong. Ask him for wisdom. Ask him to help you trust him with what you cannot understand.
Speaker: With the mystery of what he hasn't revealed. And then friend, live. Live life. Trust God and live the life he's given you. Love your kid. Learn your kid. Support your kid. Pray for your kid. Disciple your autistic disciple.
Speaker: God gets the outcome. I get the assignment. And I know my assignment. Go and make disciples. That's the foundation for everything we're going to talk about in this autism and healing series.
Speaker: God gets the outcome. I get the assignment of raising an autistic disciple. So before I tell you where we're headed the next three episodes, let me give you one more preface, okay? If you've made it to all the way to the end of this episode, especially if you are autistic yourself, And you're sitting there thinking, Lara, this entire conversation is absurd. It's actually making my blood pressure go up. Autism is not something that needs to be healed. Lara, can't you understand this? Listen, I can hear you from the other side of your device listening to this. I am so sorry that I've made your heart rate go up talking about, you know, or maybe inferring that autism is something that can be healed. Frankly, here's the thing, friend.
Speaker: I understand why even putting those words in the same sentence, autism and healing can be frustrating for you. I've had conversations where autistic individuals and parents have told me that that's been downright hurtful to hear said. I get it.
Speaker: And as Graham's mom, I'm here to tell you, I agree. It hurts me when someone looks at my son and tells me that he needs to be healed.
Speaker: In this episode, you've heard where I've landed theologically. I believe God can, but God can and Graham needs to become non-autistic are two very different statements.
Speaker: I'm not living my life believing my son needs to become non-autistic. I am not waiting for a non-autistic version of my kid. I'm not discipling him towards neurotypical.
Speaker: Because frankly, I'm tired of Christians confusing neurotypical with holiness or treating neurotypical as the standard for wholeness. It isn't. The goal of discipleship is not to make my autistic son less autistic. The goal of discipleship is to make him more like Christ.
Speaker: And those are not the same thing. Now, there's a whole theological conversation underneath that statement. What wholeness means, what redemption means, resurrection means, what sanctification does and does not change. And we're going there in the next episode. So stay tuned.
Speaker: Graham is autistic today.
Speaker: I love the Graham who is in front of me today. I love that I get to be his mom. And I'm learning how his autistic brain learned for the sake of the gospel.
Speaker: Okay. So let me circle back to just one thing. Back to if you thought this this topic or this conversation was absurd. Here's why I think we need to have the conversation. Okay. If you'll just hear me on this.
Speaker: if you're if you're kind of boiling or like, this this is this is crazy that we're having to have, you know, autism doesn't need to be healed, you know, kind of thing. There are Christian parents who are genuinely wrestling with this.
Speaker: They've been told that their child needs to be healed. They've been told and had people pray over their child for their autistic kid for healing. They've heard sermons and testimonies. They've watched the Instagram reels of other families' child being healed suddenly of autism. They've wondered whether accepting a diagnos diagnosis demonstrates a lack of faith.
Speaker: Some of them, their their preacher, or their pastors, have have done oil on their kid to try to heal them. And some of them don't have biblical language to sort through what they've been told.
Speaker: So if you're already settled if you've already settled this question for yourself, I hope you'll understand why I'm willing to sit in it for a few episodes. Sometimes we have to help our brothers and sisters wrestle through a question we no longer wrestle with.
Speaker: Not so that I can hand them my conclusion for them to take, but so that we can keep pointing them back to scripture and say, let's figure out what God actually said.
Speaker: So I hope that makes sense. All right, preface over. In the next episode, I want to talk to you about what I actually pray for my gram because my answer may surprise you. Then after that, we need to talk about these one-minute testimony video reels that families who say their child has been healed of autism. we need We need to go through that. How can we think about those stories, both biblically and wisely? And wrapping up the series, I want to talk to you about what happens when you have prayed, believed, asked, and nothing changed.
Speaker: But before we get there, this week I want you do some homework. Okay? Here it is. Open your Bible. Pray. Come to your convictions from Scripture.
Speaker: Trust God with the things He has revealed in His Word. Right? That's why we read it. To understand who God is. Know God more than we did yesterday. But trust Him with the things He has not revealed. And then be faithful with what he has revealed.
Speaker: Because here's what we know. Okay? You ready for this? Here's what we know today. My autistic son is autistic today. He's probably going to be autistic tomorrow.
Speaker: But here's what I know for certain. God is sovereign today. God is good today. God is able today. And the great commission ah to go and make disciples is my assignment today.
Speaker: I'm certain of those orders. The assignment he gave me, therefore I will go and obey by raising an autistic disciple. And I'm glad you're here with me. See you in part two.
