{"id":249,"date":"2008-05-20T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-20T02:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/becoming-stra-3.html"},"modified":"2008-05-20T02:00:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-20T02:00:00","slug":"becoming-stra-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2008\/05\/becoming-stra-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Strange Fruit (p4)&#8211;Resolution, Pursuance and Psalm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution follows Acknowledgement<\/p>\n<p>Resolution:&nbsp; Jesus in his death was showing us how to live.&nbsp; Once we hear the call we must resolve to respond.&nbsp; This part of the cross-examen is a prayerful consent to embrace the excruciating life.&nbsp; May have died for the truths we have just acknowledged but what if they are not just world dying for but worth living as well?&nbsp; Resolution is the stage in which we vow to live life out of the cross and accept the invitation to the excruciating life.<\/p>\n<p>Pursuance:&nbsp; Then comes the hard part.&nbsp; Applying the cross to our lives so that we truly become strange fruit.<\/p>\n<p>Psalm:&nbsp; Each examen that folllows will end with an improvisational poem based on a classic sacred hymn of the cross.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Resolution follows Acknowledgement Resolution:&nbsp; Jesus in his death was showing us how to live.&nbsp; Once we hear the call we must resolve to respond.&nbsp; This part of the cross-examen is a prayerful consent to embrace the excruciating life.&nbsp; May have died for the truths we have just acknowledged but what if they are not just&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-249","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 (p4)-Resolution, Pursuance and Psalm - 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-3.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 (p4)-Resolution, Pursuance and Psalm - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Resolution follows Acknowledgement Resolution:&nbsp; 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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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