Dr. King and the Dream The world considered him a protest leader, an activist, a spokesperson, a civil rights leader and the conscience of a nation. With keen and sensitive insight, he so eloquently proclaimed that our nation and the world were facing a profound social and human situation. However, some of his greatest messages were not preached from a “mountain top” to millions, but from a small pulpit back home at Ebeneezer Baptist Church. Dr. King once said, “Before I was a civil rights leader, I was a preacher of the gospel. It was my first vocation and it still remains my greatest commitment. Just a month before an assassin's bullet hit him, Dr. King returned home. For so long he had lectured and preached to others about the magnificent dreams of unity, brotherhood, hope and justice. He took his messages to the four corners of the world and met kings, queens, popes and rabbis. , and the archbishops. But now he was home for a time of reflection, reunion and rest. This sermon was different in this one, “Unfulfilled Dreams”, he preached from the eighth chapter of First Kings and spoke of its “cosmic significance”. because it says a lot about life in so few words. » It tells the story of King David, who dreamed of building a great temple to honor the Lord, the God of Israel. Although the temple was never completed, God blessed David because the dream was in his heart. In this sermon, Dr. King spoke about the broken dreams of Mahatma Gandhi who dreamed of India's independence and unity as a great nation heading towards a higher destiny. Gandhi worked for years through a nonviolent revolution in hopes of realizing his dream. But the dream was shattered because the nation Gandhi so wanted to unify was embroiled in conflict between Hindus and Muslims. President Woodrow Wilson dreamed of a League of Nations but died before his promise was fulfilled. The Apostle Paul dreamed of taking the Gospel to Spain, but he ended up in a prison cell in Rome. As I read this sermon, I remembered my own dream, that my children would never see the inhumanity I saw, never feel the injustice I felt. , nor would they taste the bitterness of bigotry that consumed this nation when I was a child.