As the Senior High youth get ready to go to the ELCA National Gathering this July, they are studying the theme – “Jesus, Justice and Jazz”!! It’s easy to figure out how ‘Jazz’ fits the Gathering because it is being held in New Orleans! As the capital of jazz in the United States, New Orleans offers the variety and free spirit that are required by the unique style of jazz. Jazz also fits a spiritual mandate of community, cooperation and freedom. Did you know that in jazz music no one carries the melody line? Each instrument at one time or another plays a few notes of the melody, but the song only comes together when all the instruments play together. It is the same with the Christian Church and community. The Holy Spirit works in and around us to make beautiful music!
Justice is not a new theme for God’s faithful people. Justice is as old as Abraham and Sarah. “Compassionate justice” is a newer way of presenting the biblical theme of justice. In this day, too many people mix the judicial understanding of justice with the Godly understanding. To say ‘compassionate justice’ is to clarify that God’s justice is not always fair and that in God’s justice we find kindness and humility. As the Senior High youth prepare to go to New Orleans, we ask that you help us to learn of – ‘Jesus, Justice and Jazz’! Play on!
(Any who would like to donate monies to help a young person afford this spiritual journey, please let me know!)
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