(This sermon was originally delivered during the chapel service at Luther Seminary the day after Martin Luther King Day, Jan. 16, 2007)
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Scripture Reading: 1 Corinthians 1:10-17
Forty-four years ago, a man named Martin Luther King, Jr. stood in front of the Lincoln Memorial and uttered these immortal words: “I have a dream.”
For Martin Luther King, his ultimate dream was that blacks and whites, Jews and Gentiles, Protestant and Catholic could come together, hold hands and sing “Free at last, free at last. God Almighty, we’re free at last.”
I have a dream, too. A dream that is nearly two thousand years old, passed down through the annals of history from a Jewish convert to Christianity named Paul. It would seem to be a smaller dream than the dream of Martin Luther King’s, because this dream only calls for the coming together of a specific group of people known as Christians. My dream is Paul’s dream…a dream “that all of you be in agreement and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be united in the same mind and the same purpose.”
