scholarly journals Doing God’s Will: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Life of Purpose by Larry L. Macon Sr. (A Book Review)

2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
Weronika Kurasz
Keyword(s):  
Saint Paul ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
God's Will ◽  
Martin Luther King

Weronika Kurasz's review of Larry L. Macon Senior's Doing God’s Will: Martin Luther King Jr. and a Life of Purpose. Saint Paul Press, 2019.

The Ebenezer Gospel

2020 ◽  
pp. 231-254
Author(s):  
Richard Lischer
Keyword(s):  
World History ◽  
Martin Luther ◽  
Baptist Church ◽  
God's Will ◽  
The World ◽  
Public Message ◽  
Martin Luther King

This chapter details Martin Luther King, Jr.’s stint as “copastor” of Ebenezer Baptist Church, which lasted for less than one hundred months. Although he did not preach at Ebenezer every Sunday, he spoke there often enough to establish “my gospel,” an evolving, sometimes volatile interpretation of God’s will for Ebenezer and the world. The Ebenezer Gospel is what the preacher King said to his people over the course of his pastorate. It is important to gather the fragments of this gospel into a coherent whole because he carried a modified version of it into world history, thus making knowledge of the Ebenezer Gospel essential to an understanding of his public message—his quest for justice, yearning for redemption, insistence on nonviolence, embrace of suffering, prophetic rage, and all else that emerged from his Sundays in Atlanta. King’s Ebenezer sermons are the religious subtext for his sermon to the nation.

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