I heard the voice of Jesus!... | Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. | 1956-68

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. personally encountered Jesus Christ in early January 1956. He does not make a public recorded mention of this until 27 January 1957, when preaching at Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, in a sermon notated by the Montgomery Advertiser, a local newspaper.
At the age of 27, on 31 Jan. 1956, the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church parsonage was bombed, ripping a hole through the house & front steps & leaving a scar in the concrete which is still visible today. His immediate family was inside the parsonage at the time of the explosion. Dr. King did not take to a pulpit to speak succinctly about his personal experience with Jesus in Jan. 1956, as Montgomery Improvement Assoc. leaders & residents were counting on him to be calm in the face of great personal harm & adversity. He spoke from the pulpit before & afterwards on the words of Jesus from Matthew 5:43-45.
At the age of 29, Dr. King was nearly stabbed to death with a letter opener on 20 Sept. 1958. When stabbed, part of the letter opener went close to the aorta, & some of the opener remained sticking out of his chest. He was operated on & recovered over a period of several weeks.
Many are familiar with the public audio recording recalling his 1956 personal encounter with Jesus from late in his sermon at Mt. Pisgah Missionary Baptist Church in Chicago, IL on 27 August 1967. Near the start of that sermon, he refers to Luke 12:13-21. Because of what Jesus Christ did on the cross, Jesus is the great physician who can heal us from all our sickness & wounds. Jesus & the Holy Spirit are the Balm in Gilead today.
““…Even though Martin Luther King Jr., came from a line of African American preachers in his family he was also influenced from what he learned while attending Crozer (Theological Seminary), a predominantly white seminary. While studying at Crozer, King would be exposed to various styles of sermon arrangements. Those styles included the Jewel Sermon, the Roman Candle Sermon, & the Classification Sermon. The Jewel Sermon involved looking at an idea from multiple angles. The Roman Candle Sermon contained a series of loosely related points. The Classification Sermon involved placing people or things into different classes or groups. A number of King’s sermons would fall into the Classification category which was common to the folk preaching that African Americans were used to. From time to time he would also show the ability to mix styles as some preachers did. Because Dr. King had a handle on an array of sermon arrangement styles he would be able to reach all audiences instead of being just able to preach to the black community…. he learned that in order to fully interpret what was written in the Bible he had to know the historical context in which the texts were written. This form of biblical interpretation enabled King to be able to relate biblical characters & stories to the to the current time setting.
Dr. King did not take sermon preparation lightly. Prior to The Civil Rights movement he spent 15 hours in preparation….”” From, “The Life & Writing of Martin Luther King Jr.,” by Terrell M. Harris, Wesley Theological Seminary, © 2010.
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