“But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not reca pture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of mill ions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I m eet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust…” —Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail

Bishop of the Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast Synod, of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

January 19, 2014

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