{"id":571,"date":"2006-03-11T21:52:14","date_gmt":"2006-03-11T21:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2006\/03\/jazzaneutics-p3.html"},"modified":"2006-03-11T21:52:14","modified_gmt":"2006-03-11T21:52:14","slug":"jazzaneutics-p3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2006\/03\/jazzaneutics-p3.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazzaneutics p3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"><span><a href=\"http:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/.shared\/image.html?\/photos\/uncategorized\/preaching.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"155\" alt=\"Preaching\" src=\"https:\/\/jazztheologian.typepad.com\/findingthegroove\/images\/preaching.gif\" width=\"100\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> When we read our Bibles, where do we find the meaning?<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Is the meaning of our Bibles in <strong>what the author is saying or doing?<\/strong><span>&nbsp; <\/span>If the main point of the scriptures is primarily in what is being said than the classical approach is more than adequate.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>All we need is to understand the words and listen to sermons in which the words are explained to us and then we can say that we know the scriptures.<span>&nbsp; <\/span><strong>But what if the meaning is primarily in doing what scripture is doing?<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"><span><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span lang=\"EN\"><span><u>Jazz is an interpretive art.<\/u><span>&nbsp; <\/span>The goal is to be so familiar with the originals so that one can then produce new interpretations\u2026new variations.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>If you listen to a classical piece on a CD and then go to the concert hall, you expect to hear the same song done in the same way, no matter who plays it.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Jazz is different, when you ask a jazz musician to \u201cplay that song\u201d you don\u2019t expect it to sound just like the way you remember it.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>Rather you are asking for that musicians interpretation of that song.<span>&nbsp; <\/span>So much of preaching is approached classically and we wonder why it is so boring and lifeless!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we read our Bibles, where do we find the meaning?&nbsp; Is the meaning of our Bibles in what the author is saying or doing?&nbsp; If the main point of the scriptures is primarily in what is being said than the classical approach is more than adequate.&nbsp; All we need is to understand the words&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-571","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>Jazzaneutics 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\/2006\/03\/jazzaneutics-p3.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jazzaneutics p3 - The Jazz Theologian\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When we read our Bibles, where do we find the meaning?&nbsp; 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