Quote for the Week

The contemporary church is a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. So often it is an archdefender of the status quo. Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church’s silent and often even vocal sanction of things as they are.

But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I meet young people whose disappointment with the church has turned into outright disgust.

These words were written by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in his “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” in 1963, and yet the description stills cuts like a knife.

We may turn a blind eye to atrocities that we aren’t willing to deal with, but history will judge us just as we judge them.

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