In Montgomery, Alabama there is a Civil Rights Memorial designed by Maya Lin, the same architect who created the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. Etched into a granite table are the names of those martyred during the Civil Rights era. When you touch the names you realize there is unnoticed water flowing over the table, so calm is the water. Behind the table is a wall with a variation of this quotation: let justice surge like water, and goodness like an unfailing stream. It is attributed to Dr. King but he was quoting from the Prophet Amos. What a powerful reminder that the business of Church is not preserving the church but rather creating a more just and peaceful society as foretaste of the Kingdom of God.
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By Church Staff
