{"id":409,"date":"2007-03-16T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-16T00:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2007\/03\/findng-your-voi.html"},"modified":"2007-03-16T00:31:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-16T00:31:00","slug":"findng-your-voi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2007\/03\/findng-your-voi.html","title":{"rendered":"Findng Your Voice–a personal journey (p2)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After much time in the scriptures and many a sermons in which I underlined every verse my pastor preached I was ready to start experimenting, risking, and searching for my own voice.<\/p>\n

When I was a freshman in high school, I thought I was going to be an orthopedic surgeon.  I even enrolled in Latin class because someone told me that medical terms are derived from that dead language.  One day, I broke a bone in my foot at cross-country practice and wound up in a cast…for 8 months!  I saw this as the will of God for my life.  Here I was wanting to be an orthopedic surgeon and now I had the opportunity to watch one up close working my body.<\/p>\n

The Lord was at work but not as I suspected.  It was during this time of impaired mobility as I lay with my leg propped up in my bed and my Bible on my lap that the Spirit of Christ spoke to me and called me to be a pastor.<\/p>\n

Within days of this holy moment, I told my pastor about what I thought the Lord had told me.  We prayed.  He asked me if I would like to preach my first sermon at the Wednesday night prayer meeting.  I said yes.  <\/p>\n

I panicked as I walked home!  Me, preach?  What would I say?  After all, I knew what the scriptures said, but what were they supposed to say through me?<\/p>\n

That was the day that I began to experience community as jam session in which the Holy Spirit, the scriptures, a mentor and an "audience" begin to call out of someone their voice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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