The topics of race, racial reconciliation and social justice often elicit strong emotions, which is one of the reasons why

many pastors and churches tend to stay silent on these issues. However, on this

special Martin Luther King Jr. Day, David Platt argues that these are not topics

the church can ignore.

These issues are gospel issues, and all the more urgent today, 50 years after Martin Luther King Jr's death.

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net our worship of God is integrally connected to the way we treat our neighbor,

including those who do not look like us.

Based on Amos Chapter 5, David's sermon today exhorts us to consider our role in perpetuating racism, often without

realizing it, every follower of Christ should pray and work for justice in the culture around us.

Here's David Platt with a new sermon titled praying and working for justice racialization from Amos Chapter 5.

Well, if you have the word of this God, and I hope you do, let me invite you to open with me in the Bible to

Amos Chapter 5.

We are starting this year with 40 days of concentrated prayer.

And as I have prayed about where to go in the word during these days, I believe God has led us to two different sensitive topics that we need to address as the church in our culture with God's Word.

So we know that this weekend we celebrate Martin Luther King's birthday January 15,

1929. And the next weekend many of you know that churches

traditionally celebrate sanctity of life. So as we pray together during these

40 days it seems most appropriate for us to pray for God's justice

and mercy in a culture that is marked by both racialization and abortion.

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