{"id":248,"date":"2008-05-19T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-19T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/becoming-stra-2.html"},"modified":"2008-05-19T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-19T02:00:00","slug":"becoming-stra-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/becoming-stra-2.html","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Strange Fruit (p3)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jesuit Christians daily practice the <em>Prayer of Examen.<\/em>&nbsp; It is a simple form of prayer that seeks to develop receptiveness to the call of God for the purpose of a response.<\/p>\n<p>We need to &quot;examen&quot; the cross not &quot;examine&quot; the cross.&nbsp; Jesus&#8217; death was a supreme act of love&#8211;a love supreme, that is.&nbsp; &quot;Greater love has no one than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Coltranes stages provide a good pattern for cross-examEnation.<\/p>\n<p>Stage 1&#8211;Acknowledgement:&nbsp; We need to face the facts about the cross.&nbsp; What was God doing on the cross?&nbsp; The basic classical answers are <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Substitution:&nbsp; Jesus was absorbing our pain by taking our place.<\/li>\n<li>Reconciliation:&nbsp; Jesus was making peace.<\/li>\n<li>Christos Victor:&nbsp; Jesus was securing victory over sin, darkness and death.<\/li>\n<li>Redemption:&nbsp; Jesus was paying the price for our freedom<\/li>\n<li>Submission:&nbsp; Jesus was submitting to the will of his father<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Resolution is next&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jesuit Christians daily practice the Prayer of Examen.&nbsp; It is a simple form of prayer that seeks to develop receptiveness to the call of God for the purpose of a response. We need to &quot;examen&quot; the cross not &quot;examine&quot; the cross.&nbsp; Jesus&#8217; death was a supreme act of love&#8211;a love supreme, that is.&nbsp; &quot;Greater love&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-248","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 (p3) - 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-2.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 (p3) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jesuit Christians daily practice the Prayer of Examen.&nbsp; It is a simple form of prayer that seeks to develop receptiveness to the call of God for the purpose of a response. 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