Martin Luther King, Jr.

And so Jesus gave us a new norm of greatness.
If you want to be important—wonderful.
If you want to be recognized—wonderful.
If you want to be great—wonderful.
But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant.

That's a new definition of greatness.

And this morning, the thing that I like about it:
by giving that definition of greatness,it means that...

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.
You don't have to have a college degree to serve.
You don't have to have to make your subject and your verb agree to serve.
You don't have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve.
You don't have to know Einstein's "Theory of Relativity" to serve.
You don't have to know the Second Theory of Thermodynamics in Physics to serve.
You only need a heart full of

grace,

a soul generated by

love,

and you can be that

servant."

Excerpted from "The Drum Major Instinct", a sermon by Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Delivered at Ebenezer Baptist Church, Atlanta, Georgia, on 4 February 1968

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