James wrote to the believers, consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. But perseverance finishes its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. It is a great honor to be back at Ebenezer Baptist church in the pulpit of its greatest pastor, doctor Martin Luther king jr. To pay my respects of perhaps his finest disciple. An american, whose faith was tested again and again, to produce a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance. John robert lewis and to those who have spoken, president bush and president clinton, madam speaker and the reverend, johns family, friends, his beloved staff and i have come here today to because i like so Many Americans, owe a great debt to john lewis and his forceful vision of freedom. Now, this country is a constant work in progress and we are born with instructions to form a more perfect union, explicit in those words is th
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. But perseverance finishes its work so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing. It is a great honor to be back at Ebenezer Baptist church in the pulpit of its greatest pastor, doctor Martin Luther king jr. To pay my respects of perhaps his finest disciple. An american, whose faith was tested again and again, to produce a man of pure joy and unbreakable perseverance. John robert lewis and to those who have spoken, president bush and president clinton, madam speaker and the reverend, johns family, friends, his beloved staff and i have come here today to because i like so Many Americans, owe a great debt to john lewis and his forceful vision of freedom. Now, this country is a constant work in progress and we are born with instructions to form a more perfect union, explicit in those words is the idea that we are imperfect a