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"All That We Are, We Owe"
Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Date: January 1, 1948 to December 31, 1954?
Genre: Sermon
Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry
Martin Luther King, Jr. - Education
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I. Introduction
One of the most potent facts of human life is the fact that man is basically a dependent being. This fact is revealed from the earliest days of infancy to the declining days of old age. No man ever makes it by himself. In fact it is this vey element of dependency that makes man man. for no individual becomes a personality until it interacts with other personalities. In our fickle moments we may feel that we are what we are by our own achievments, but in our sober moments we know deep down in our selves that we did not make ourselves. This is another way of saying: “All that We are, We owe.”1
Certainly this is not in accord with much of our contemporary thinking. Many modern thinkers would state our theme in the direct opposite: “All that we are, we have achieved.” There is a school of modern philosophy called existentialism which starts out with the premise that man creates himself. Says it most outstanding exponent: “It is a doctrine acco
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Grace is Reckless.
By every conceivable category, grace shouldn't exist. It shouldn't have been bestowed. It's the card in God's trick we never saw coming.
Remember a couple of years ago when that song "Reckless Love" was being played on every radio station and was included in nearly every church worship set, and a large swath of Christian commenters spent the majority of the time debating and blogging about the merits of the idea of God's love being "reckless"? I think that the entire episode is "Exhibit 1,011" of why we can't have nice things. To be clear, I am not seeking to uphold the greater, more significant errors and deceptions that have stemmed from Bethel Church's ministerial influence. But even still, arguing over the theological trappings of Cory Asbury's lyrics is playing right into the error for which Jesus scolded the Pharisees. (Matt. 23:23) Which is to say, neglecting the "weightier matters of the law" is almost always preceded by a logical view of grace.
Grace is something that is taken for granted. For many, it forms the infrastructure around which are built all of one's theological and spiritual understandings. It is the topic of constant evangelical conversation and debate. It populates the average churchgoer's vernacular to such a degree that, for so
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