King's Point

I think that the main point is this is Martin Luther King, Jr.'s reaching out to the man in Birmingham Jail. As King states in this letter, "and just as the Apostle Paul left his little village of Tarsus and carried the gospel of Jesus Christ to practically every hamlet and city of the Greco-Roman world, I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular home town" (p.180). His point is that he is personally reaching out and touching the lives of others in all of the different communities surrounding him. King is a man that believes in direct contact, and that is how he made a difference. He has stated before that, "the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly." That is a direct quote from our handout that we were given in Concepts of the Community. So i truly believe that King's main point is once again direct contact is the answer to our problems. We have to reach out and touch the lives of others to get our point across.