Good News to the Poor: Social Involvement and the Gospel Biography Martin Luther King Jr's legendary

Martin Luther King Jr's legendary speech at the March on Washington

So the ground rules are clearly laid out

The calendar pounces on our good intentions like a tiger on a rabbit

but God wants to hear your requests for your life too

In this brief book

Good News to the Poor: Social Involvement and the Gospel Biography Martin Luther King Jr's legendaryHelp them or tell them? Be like Jesus or talk about Jesus? Social action or gospel proclamation? Quite often we find ourselves gravitating toward one of those modes over the other_at times going so far as to pit word against deed, as if the two were mutually exclusive. Yet Good News to the Poor shows us how both are integrated in the biblical vision of mission so that we may become both evangelists and activists_Christians who talk the talk and who