In the fall of 1956, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. gave a speech and asked his audience to imagine that St. Paul had penned an epistle to American Christians just as he had done nineteen hundred years before to believers in Rome, Galatia, and Colossae. What would he say? Since the apostle usually wrote to encourage and convict, what faults might he seek to correct?
According to the imaginary letter that King presented, Paul took particular offense at disunity in the church, including racial division. “You have a white church and you have a Negro church,” he said. “How can such a division exist in the true Body of Christ?” Such divisions are “against everything that the Christian religion stands for.”
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