The purpose of this paper is to argue that the Church’s service to the handicapped is necessarily correlated to the Church’s academical endeavors. This argument consists of three parts. Part one casts the Church’s academical activities in light of an explicitly Christian doctrine of Scripture, wherein the telos of Scripture is determined by the nature of Scripture. More specifically, Scripture, as God’s self-communication to his people, calls the Church towards the ultimate goal (telos) of dual love for God and neighbors, a goal which sets the proper theological context for the Church’s academic exercises. Part two zooms in on a facet of this goal as delineated in John 9:1-5, to demonstrate that even as Scripture points the Church towards this dual love, handicapped people too point the Church towards love for God and neighbors. In particular, the relationship posed between the telos of disability and the participation of the Church through Christ in service of those with disability conditions lay a theological foundation for the ethics of the Church towards the handicapped. Finally, Part three brings the arguments together by presenting the telos of love, inherent in Scripture (part one) and disability (part two), as the point of necessary correlation between the Church’s call to academia on the one hand, conceived as right interpretation of Scripture, and the Church’s call to serve on the other hand, conceived as service to the handicapped.