A great social revolution is going on in the United States today. Dr. King is one of its leaders, and we appreciate his taking time out of his busy schedule to come and share this service with us tonight.
King prayed as follows:
Let us pray.
O God, our Heavenly Father—out of whose mind this great cosmic universe has been created, toward whom the weary and perplexed of all generations turn for consolation and direction—we come before Thy presence this evening thanking Thee for the many blessings of life.
We come recognizing our dependence on Thee.
We also come, O God, with an awareness:
The fact that we have not always given our lives to that which is high and noble.
In the midst of all of the high and noble aspects of justice,
we followed injustice.
We stand amid the forces of truth,
and yet we deliberately lie.
We stand amid the compelling urgency of the Lord of love, as exemplified in the life of Jesus Christ,
and yet we live our lives so often in the dungeons of hate.
For all of these sins, O God, forgive.
And in these days of emotional tension—when the problems of the world are gigantic in extent and chaotic in detail—give us penetrating vision, broad understanding, power of endurance, and abiding faith, and save us from the paralysis of crippling fear.
And O God, we ask Thee to help us to work with renewed vigor for a warless world and for a brotherhood that transcends race or color.
We thank Thee this evening for the marvelous things which have been done in this city, and through the dynamic preachings of this great evangelist.
And we ask Thee, O God, to continue blessing him. Give him continued power and authority.
And as we look into him tonight, grant that our hearts and spirit will be opened to the divine inflow.
All of these things we ask, in the name of Him who taught us to pray.
Our Father [audience also begins to pray],
who art in heaven,
hallowed be Thy name. . . .
[Audience continues prayer without King.]
You can hear some of the audio in the following clip:
And sadly, the evidence is—as illustrated by his personal lifestyle—that M.L. King rejected the good news of Jesus Christ. In seminary it’s clear he rejected the virgin birth and the divinity of Christ. King became a Baptist minister instead of a Unitarian, not due to evangelical conviction—but mainly because he knew he would have much greater acceptance and leadership in the black community—to lead them into social justice.
According to his closest associates, the night before he was murdered—he had sexual relations with 3 different women, none his wife (a pattern repeated and routine during his travels)...and it is also proven he plagiarized his doctoral thesis. The content of Rev. King’s (personal) character needs to be acknowledged, was sorely lacking. Yes, he did great things for civil rights—but we must not make him a saint, when he certainly was not.
King was not an orthodox chrstian of any kind whatsoever, as may be found by reading this article (from a friendly source!). King was a typical liberal religionist who rejected all the supernatural dogmas and retained only a secular moral code, which he quoted the scriptures to bolster and justify.
He was an unorthodox fraud. Whether or not he was a Communist is secondary.