"I have Dream"

I was preparing to make a short speech on the 10th anniversry of an organisation that works with at risk youth. Consequently it has proved to be a very interesting week as I have wrestled with some of the quotes that I found. I have made the address, but I am still wrestling with thoughts and questions, hence it has taken me a while to get to this blog and even then, I am not so sure I have begun to grasp the concept yet.
 This is the first quote I found from C S Lewis:
If you read history, you will find, that the Christians who did the most for the present world were precisely those thought most about the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the otherworld that they have become so ineffective in this one."

This quote just leaves me with so many questions:
What does thinking about the next world look like?
How do you do this and remain living in the moment?
Is this something to do with interpreting the prophetic to get Heaven's viewpoint?
Are Bethel Church in Redding California onto something with their concepts of bringing heaven to earth, by trying to work out Heavens governmental system in a "A Culture of Honor".

While I was researching for my address I found two further speeches(that seem to be strangley linked with Lewis's thought) that were written 5 years apart by Martin Luther King Jnr. The first is the "I have Dream" Speech Washington DC, 28 August 1963.
"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out of the true meaning of its creed: We hold these truths self-evident that all men were created equal........." 

The second speech is "I have seen the Promised Land" Speech Memphis Tennessee 3 April 1968
".....Well I don't know what will happen now. We've got some difficult times ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody I would like to live a long life. Longevity has it's place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And He's allowed me to go up the mountain. And I've looked over . And I've seen the promised land. I may not get their with you. But I want to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land. And I 'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord."

Martin Luther King was Assasinated in Memphis Tennessee on 4 April 1968.

With election of President Barak Obama, the first African American Preseident in 2008, 40 years  there was a partial fulfillment of King's " I have Dream" speech. At least in our life time we have seen change.

There was obviously some intense seeking of Heaven between 1963 and 1968, something had changed in the makeup of the man and it wasn't his dream. How this works, I am not sure, but work it apparently does. I need to become more heavenly minded to be signifigantly more useful on earth. I will continue to wrestle and keep you posted.