Matthew 25 Spotlights

On Good Friday 1963, Martin Luther King, Jr. was arrested in Birmingham and jailed for 8 days. While there, he read a letter addressed to him from prominent white clergymen in the city supporting the cause of civil rights but denouncing the protests and acts of civil disobedience. King responded with a letter that has been called the most important written document of the civil rights era.In Sunday’s sermon, Pastor Camille referenced King’s Letter from a Birmingham Jail in connection with Jesus flipping the tables of injustice and oppression (John 2:13-22). It is worth rereading the letter from time-to-time. The letter is fairly lengthy. Here is an early version of the full letter and an abridged version. If you’d like to listen to the letter you can hear King reading the letter here (55 minutes). If you’d like to read a little more about the events surrounding the writing of this letter you can do so here.