Blue Like Jazz

Um, particularly like...

Well, for one, like, when I was reading it, it, it, it reminded me a book that's a extremely popular book from back in the day when I was, I guess, in my early 20s, uh, Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller.

Mm-hmm.

Um, how engaging it was through storytelling and, um, you know, you're being very vulnerable, but you still have, like, a good sense of humor-

A little background on Don is he is the CEO of Business Made Simple.

He's the host of the Business Made Simple podcast and is the author of several books, including the bestsellers Blue Like Jazz and, as I mentioned, Building a Story Brand.

And his latest book, which I am obsessed with, is Hero on a Mission.

He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Elizabeth, and their daughter, Emmeline.

A managed, managed ser- sermon provider.

And, uh, [laughs] after one of those, a guy says, "Hey, what are you doing?" I said, "Oh, I'm really enjoying marketing." He said, "Have you read StoryBrand?" "What's that?" "Well, Donald Miller wrote that." And I said, "Do you mean the Blue Like Jazz guy? You mean the spiritual memoirist who broke ground in the early aughts?" And he's like, "Exactly." And so that's how I, I, I actually found out about it, because I was guest preaching at a little tiny church in Seattle.

Um, but when I read it, they had the same language that I used in theater for my whole life.

Who's your character? What do they want? What's in the way of that? How, who, uh, who's gonna help them overcome that problem, and how? I, I just knew.

That same year, Many Protestants march throughout Europe from Germany to the Holy Land wearing T-shirts with the message, I apologize, so they could go apologize for the Crusades.

Some of you may remember, this was popular when I was just starting in ministry, Donald Miller's book, Blue Like Jazz, and he talked about at various Christian... not Christian, but just college campuses, they would set up confessional booths.

And when people came and said, what's this about? Am I supposed to confess my sins? There would be Christians there and say, no, we want to confess our sins to you.

And one of the chief sins is they, we want to confess the sins of the crusades.