Don't Waste MLK Day

Dear Friends:
I join with Pastor John Piper (Bethlehem Baptist Church and Desiring God Ministries) in encouraging you to not waste MLK day. Before any of you go ballistic at my suggesting this (and you know who you are!) let me give you an excerpt from the blog that gives credence to the request: "The point of this weekend is not to celebrate all that MLK was. You need not belabor his sins. The point is to lift up some magnificent things he stood for and some necessary and amazing achievements of the civil rights era in which he was a key leader. We are Christians and can see these things in the light of providence and the gospel. Let everything point to Christ and him crucified. Consider Revelation 5:9 if you wonder whether ethnic diversity and ethnic harmony are Jesus-blood issues."
Please take the time to follow the link below and especially read the excerpt from King's "Letter from a Birmingham Jail".

http://www.desiringgod.org/Blog/1026_dont_waste_martin_luther_king_weekend/
God bless,
Steve