![]() Now that question could have easily ended up in a philosophical and theological debate. At points he wanted to trick Jesus, and show him that he knew a little more than Jesus knew and throw him off base…. One day a man came to Jesus, and he wanted to raise some questions about some vital matters of life. Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness. Here is the part of the I’ve Been to the Mountain Top speech, delievered Ap(King was assassinated the next day): I want to pave the Jericho Road, add street lights to the Jericho Road make the Jericho Road safe (for passage) by everybody….” I don’t want to pick up anyone else, along this Jericho Road I want to fix… the Jericho Road. ![]() I am tired of seeing people battered and bruised and bloody, injured and jumped on, along the Jericho Roads of life. King continued, “…you see Andy, I am tired of picking up people along the Jericho Road. I of course, like and respect the Good Samaritan….but I don’t want to be a Good Samaritan.” Dr. King told Andrew Young then, “….Andy, I think the Good Samaritan is a great individual. Coretta Scott King had just returned from Israel, and predictably people began talking about the Good Samaritan and the Jericho Road, and associating this image with Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., recounted a conversation that he and Dr. Shane mentioned King’s idea of “fixing the road to Jericho”, which it seems can be attributed to a conversation between King and Ambassador Andrew Young.Īmbassador Andrew Young, my personal hero and mentor, the global spokesman for Operation HOPE, and the first lieutenant to Dr. I started thinking about the importance of how we not only help people, but how we address the systemic issues that keep people trapped in certain patterns of helplessness, etc. I was reminded of this part of his speech by Shane Claiborne when he spoke at our staff chapel this last Tuesday. ![]() Day I want to leave you with an excerpt from one of his speeches. ![]()
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