Just been reading an article on the 'prophetic preaching' of Martin Luther King Jr. since 'prophetic preaching' is an area of study for one of our students. In a sermon on the Good Samaritan, King Jr. engaged in what I would describe as a 'holy, revelatory, preaching performance' where the 'invisble becomes visible' as he concludes:
'One day the question will come. It'll come in your life. "What have you been doing, how have you been living?"...I choose to identify with the underprivileged. I choose to identify with the poor. I choose to give my life for the hungry. I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity. I choose to live for and with those who find themselves seeing life as a long and desolate corridor with no exit sign. This is the way I 'm going. If it means suffering a little bit, I'm going that way. If it means sacrificing, I'm going that way...because I heard a voice saying, "Do something for others." If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with word or song, if I can show somebody he is travelling wrong, then my living shall not be in vain. And then is we as a collective whole will follow this, none of our living will be in vain, for we begin in our little way to build God's kingdom right here.'
Stuart B
Recent Comments