King on the Law

The Kingdom Perspective · May 12, 2022 · 1m

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Hello! This is Pastor Don of Christ Redeemer Church. Welcome to The Kingdom Perspective!

The biblical and Christian understanding of the limited nature of human authority has been nowhere better and succinctly stated than by the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. In April of 1963, he had been imprisoned for protesting his opposition to the overreach of government in their laws mandating the segregation of races in the Jim Crow South. In his famous “Letter from Birmingham Jail” he was responding to mainline White clergy who had criticized his tactics in fighting these “unjust laws”…