{"id":242,"date":"2008-05-18T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-18T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/becoming-stra-1.html"},"modified":"2008-05-18T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-18T02:00:00","slug":"becoming-stra-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/becoming-stra-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Strange Fruit (p2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The English word &quot;excruciating&quot; comes from the Latin &quot;excruciare&quot; meaning &quot;out of the cross.&quot;&nbsp; It is a wrod invented specifically to describe the pain of crucifixion.&nbsp; We must never minimize the cross.&nbsp; it is the center of our faith.&nbsp; In the same way the jazz never leaves the blues behind, Christians daily carry their cross.<\/p>\n<p>The Christian life is to be excruciating, that is, out of the cross.&nbsp; We are to take our cues from what Jesus was doing on that true and in the process become strange fruit.<\/p>\n<p>In order to understand the excruciating life that we are called to I&#8217;m going to make use of John Coltrane&#8217;s spiritual stages from his album, &quot;A Love Supreme.&quot;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acknowledgement<\/li>\n<li>Resolution<\/li>\n<li>Pursuance<\/li>\n<li>Psalm<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>These will proved a prayer pattern to &quot;examen&quot; the cross.&nbsp; Notice I didn&#8217;t say &quot;examine.&quot;&nbsp; The latter is a scientific term in which we place ourselves in the role of questioner.&nbsp; I believe that when we approach the cross we should not cross-examine rather we should cross-examen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The English word &quot;excruciating&quot; comes from the Latin &quot;excruciare&quot; meaning &quot;out of the cross.&quot;&nbsp; It is a wrod invented specifically to describe the pain of crucifixion.&nbsp; We must never minimize the cross.&nbsp; it is the center of our faith.&nbsp; In the same way the jazz never leaves the blues behind, Christians daily carry their cross.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Becoming Strange Fruit (p2) - The Jazz Theologian<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/becoming-stra-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Becoming Strange Fruit (p2) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The English word &quot;excruciating&quot; 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Author of Finding the Groove: Composing a Jazz-Shaped Faith (Zondervan) and the upcoming, Strange Fruit: The Cross as a Way of Life (2011). Founder of Project 127, a ministry dedicated to seeing the day when there are no children waiting for homes in Colorado's foster care system. Robert deeply desires to see the body of Christ mobilized to serve the least of these. The poor, the down and out, the disenfranchised and disabled, those deemed unimportant and the unborn. He believes that God loves all people yet he has a special heart for the poor and the poor in spirit, the miserable and the marginalized. A Contributing Editor for Leadership Journal and Urbanfaith.com. He acquired a B.A. in Bibilcal Studies from Colorado Christian University and a Master of Arts in World Christianity (Missiology) from Denver Seminary. Robert is married to the love of his life, Barbara, and they have six energetic children (3 boys &amp; 3 girls--one bio, five adopted--two from Ethiopia). 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