Martie Johnson on Martin Luther King

Chaplain Martie Johnson addresses the ANC Secondary Schools student body on personal responsibility: Listen to the Audio and watch the accompanying PowerPoint

"Martin Luther King had a dream that was America and it shall be realized!  It wasn’t just a Pastor’s dream; it is the will and providence of God for humanity."

"Just observe a fruit tree. It first springs from a tiny seed as a slender shoot, and afterwards gradually grows to a stem and spreads forth branches which are then covered with leaves.

It later puts forth flowers and bears fruit, depositing therein new seeds by which it provides for its perpetuity; and it is the same with every shrub and herb of the field.

Do not all things therein, in general and in particular, proceed constantly and wonderfully from one end in view to another according to the laws of their own order?

Why then should not the primary end, which is a heaven from the human race, proceed in a similar manner?" (DP 332)

If we move, beginning with ourselves, to enact the love of god and love toward our neighbor to communicate charity, justice, equality, dignity, and love then,

“By this My Father is glorified, that you bear much fruit; so you will be My disciples (John 15.8).”

        Because, “by this all will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another (John 13:35).”

THIS IS NOT ALWAYS EASY, BUT AS FOLLOWERS OF THE LORD’S TRUTH AND GOODNESS WE MUST ENDEAVOR TO DO SO IN HIS NAME AND FROM BELIEF IN AND PRACTICE OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE.