"I Just Want to Do God's Will"

The Single-Minded Obedience of Martin Luther King Jr

January 30, 1956, while Martin Luther King Jr was speaking at the First Baptist Church, his home in Montgomery was bombed. Just a few days later he delivered a sermon to his Dexter congregation, which scholars think was based on this outline.

The heart of the sermon is the contrast between the Good Samaritan and those who passed by the man left for dead…