Martin Luther King Jr. Article

Things seem to have a way of "coming together" unexpectedly. Today, I have come across this speech (The Three Dimensions of a Complete Life) by Martin Luther King Jr. in one of my political science courses. It is not something I get to read or come across often. It captured much of what I wanted to express to you and what Christ's state is about.

Excerpt:

I say to you this morning that the first question that the priest asked was the first question that I asked on that Jericho Road of Atlanta known as Simpson Road. The first question that the Levite asked was, ‘’If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But the good Samaritan came by and he reversed the question. Not “What will happen to me if I stop to help this man?” but “What will happen to this man if I do not stop to help him?” This was why that man was good and great. He was great because he was willing to take a risk for humanity; he was willing to ask, “What will happen to this man?” not “What will happen to me?”

This is what God needs today: Men and women who will ask, “What will happen to humanity if I don’t help? What will happen to the civil rights movement if I don’t participate? What will happen to my city if I don’t vote? What will happen to the sick if I don’t visit them?” This is how God judges people in the final analysis.