I am not a disciple of Donald Miller. I don’t believe Blue Like Jazz to be a book above the Bible. I don’t agree with everything he says. There is, however, so much in this book that resonates with me. My ambition is to live a life in tune with God and the notes I hear in this book complete so many chords of the song.
For example, he writes:
For so much of my life I had been defending Christianity because I thought to admit that we had done any wrong was to discredit the religious system as a whole, but it isn’t a religious system, it is people following Christ; and the important thing to do, the right thing to do, was to apologize for getting in the way of Jesus.
I read that again this week and thought:
For so much of my life I have been defending the church of Christ because I thought to admit that we were wrong on some point was to discredit the religious system as a whole. But it shouldn’t be a religious system, it should be about people following Christ. The most important thing we could do, the right thing we could do is to apologize for our arrogance and spiritual conceit, apologize for getting in the way of Jesus.
