Martin Luther King Jr on Dissastisfaction

Want to know why Christianity is on the decline in America today?

When is the last time you heard a preacher or a priest (or any religious leader) stand tall in the pulpit and courageously, unashamedly stand for Christ and how He applies today?  Not in the sense of the saccharine “health and wealth” gospel that eradicates any mention of sin and emphasizes only sunny goodness.  Or when you have pastors and priests too afraid to say what is on their hearts for fear of the IRS.  Or when those in the pews are taught down to rather than lifted up — whether that’s in prayer, knowledge, wisdom…

Today is Martin Luther King Jr. Day… so when I heard this yesterday in the car over XM Radio (the Spectrum nonetheless) it stuck with me all day, for two reasons:


First, right at the 5:30 mark, you hear an incredible attack on materialism and its capacity to save — both capitalist and communist — where MLK Jr. goes straight after Marx and Engels in a way most folks at the Heritage Foundation would be proud to hear.   Second, at the 9:25 mark, we get to a series of  principles that MLK Jr. speaks out in terms of dissatisfaction.

What I’m saying today is that we must go from this convention and say, “America, you must be born again!”

And so, I conclude by saying today that we have a task, and let us go out with a divine dissatisfaction.

Let us be dissatisfied until America will no longer have a high blood pressure of creeds and an anemia of deeds.

Let us be dissatisfied until the tragic walls that separate the outer city of wealth and comfort from the inner city of poverty and despair shall be crushed by the battering rams of the forces of justice. (Yes sir)

Let us be dissatisfied until those who live on the outskirts of hope are brought into the metropolis of daily security.

Let us be dissatisfied until slums are cast into the junk heaps of history, and every family will live in a decent, sanitary home.

Let us be dissatisfied until the dark yesterdays of segregated schools will be transformed into bright tomorrows of quality integrated education.

Let us be dissatisfied until integration is not seen as a problem but as an opportunity to participate in the beauty of diversity.

Let us be dissatisfied until men and women, however black they may be, will be judged on the basis of the content of their character, not on the basis of the color of their skin. Let us be dissatisfied.

Let us be dissatisfied until every state capitol will be housed by a governor who will do justly, who will love mercy, and who will walk humbly with his God.

Let us be dissatisfied until from every city hall, justice will roll down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

Let us be dissatisfied until that day when the lion and the lamb shall lie down together, and every man will sit under his own vine and fig tree, and none shall be afraid.

Let us be dissatisfied, and men will recognize that out of one blood God made all men to dwell upon the face of the earth.

Let us be dissatisfied until that day when nobody will shout, “White Power!” when nobody will shout, “Black Power!” but everybody will talk about God’s power and human power

Now when’s the last time you heard a preacher or priest give a sermon or homily like this?

Been awhile, hasn’t it?  Take the time to listen to this… it’ll be the best 16 minutes you spend all day.

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