"The Bigness of God"
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Author: King, Martin Luther, Jr. (Boston University)
Date: January 1, 1951 to December 31, 1955?
Location: Boston, Mass.?
Genre: Sermon
Topic: Martin Luther King, Jr. - Career in Ministry
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Int—The great danger facing religion is not disbelief in God, but a too narrow estimate of the God believed in.
- Conflict over dogmas
- White man lyching negroes
Deuto-IsaiahIsrael’s early tribal God and its implications Deutero Isaiah’s answer and text of the sermon- God greatness in nature
- The bigness of his purpose which includes all mankind.
- Not a denominational God
- Not a racial God
- Might even reveal himself in other religion. “I have other sheep that are not of this fold.1
- Step out in the bigness of God. Out of your narrowness to his bigness. You will begin to see life in a new light.
1. King refers to John 10:16: “And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold; them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.”
Source: MLKP-MBU, Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers, 1954-1968, Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center, Boston University, Boston, Mass.