{"id":611,"date":"2005-11-13T08:32:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-13T08:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/jazztheologian\/2005\/11\/jazz-theology-1-3.html"},"modified":"2005-11-13T08:32:00","modified_gmt":"2005-11-13T08:32:00","slug":"jazz-theology-1-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/jazztheologian\/2005\/11\/jazz-theology-1-3.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Theology 101&#8211;with visiting professor Carl Ellis (Session 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/1600\/ce.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/photos1.blogger.com\/blogger\/3236\/922\/320\/ce.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>I have read <strong><em>Carl Ellis\u2019 book, Free At Last?: The Gospel in the African-American Experience<\/em><\/strong>, at least once a year for almost a decade now. Save the scriptures, Free at Last?, has influenced my life and ministry more than any other book. One reason is that it speaks viscerally to me when it comes to how God was and is at work in the African-American experience. Carl Ellis does a masterful job of demonstrating how it is <strong>possible to \u201cpreach \u2018the full counsel of God\u2019 through our history, the way Stephen and later Paul were able to preach through Jewish history<\/strong> (Acts 7:2-53; 13:16-41).\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-create.g?blogID=11389870#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>I had never heard of thi<strong>s. I had learned that one can share the gospel through propositions or one&#8217;s own personal history, that is personal testimony, but I had never considered sharing the gospel through the history of my people<\/strong>\u2026what a radical, Biblical idea! My primary reason for my returning to Carl\u2019s work so often has been not just for what he is saying but for what he is doing\u2014<strong>Jazz Theology.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Jazz Theology is an alternative way of approaching ministry, spiritual formation, church and the scriptures.<br \/><\/em><br \/><strong>How do you share the gospel? Propositions? Personal Testimony? Have you ever shared the gospel through the corporate testimony of your people like Stephen and Paul?<\/strong><br \/><strong><\/strong><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/post-create.g?blogID=11389870#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Carl Ellis, \u201cFree At Last? The Gospel in the African-American Experience,\u201d (Downers Grove: IVP, 1996), p38<\/p>\n<div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have read Carl Ellis\u2019 book, Free At Last?: The Gospel in the African-American Experience, at least once a year for almost a decade now. 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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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