Again, King spoke as a pastor and not a politician by lamenting how such moral disobedience on the part of the white churches would turn people, and especially young people, away from an irrelevant church. The young people were with King, and are always with those who show courage, King said: But the judgment of God is upon the church as never before. If today’s church does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authenticity, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century. Every day I
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