{"id":531,"date":"2006-05-31T21:25:29","date_gmt":"2006-05-31T21:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/05\/ensemble-commun-3.html"},"modified":"2006-05-31T21:25:29","modified_gmt":"2006-05-31T21:25:29","slug":"ensemble-commun-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/05\/ensemble-commun-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Ensemble Community (p5)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/practicemakesperfect.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"127\" alt=\"Practicemakesperfect\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/practicemakesperfect.jpg\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> Ensemble Community has a variety of assumptions.<\/p>\n<p>When somebody shows up at a jam session it is assumed that they have an instrument and that they have spent a lot of alone time honing their chops.&nbsp; There are Jazz Standards that any good jazz musician knows by heart.&nbsp; In summary, the basic assumption of Ensemble Community is <span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">Practice, Practice, Practice!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Mastery is not expected, nor is flawlessness, but a basic understanding of the essential grooves and riffs is not only needed but expected.&nbsp; What if that was the expectation that we had of fellow Christians?&nbsp; What if we assumed that we were all Practicing Christians.<\/p>\n<p>We often hear of Jews referred to as &quot;Cultural Jews&quot; and &quot;Practicing Jews,&quot;&#8211;are we at the point that we need to make these distinctions among Christians?<\/p>\n<p>Wouldn&#8217;t it be nice to be able to assume of any Christian that you encounter that they are &quot;practicing.&quot;&#8211;that they have a basic understanding of the essential groove of God and that while perfection is not expected, you can at least jam together?<\/p>\n<p><em><u><strong><span style=\"font-size: 1.2em\">What would you like to be able to assume of everyone who calls themselves a Christian?&nbsp; What would your top three Christian practices be?<\/span><\/strong><\/u><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ensemble Community has a variety of assumptions. When somebody shows up at a jam session it is assumed that they have an instrument and that they have spent a lot of alone time honing their chops.&nbsp; There are Jazz Standards that any good jazz musician knows by heart.&nbsp; In summary, the basic assumption of Ensemble&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-531","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>Ensemble Community (p5) - 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\/2006\/05\/ensemble-commun-3.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ensemble Community (p5) - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ensemble Community has a variety of assumptions. 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