Writing about his album Kinda Blue in “Miles, The Autobiography with Quincy Troupe” Miles Davis says: “This time I added some other kind of sound I remembered from being back in Arkansas, when we were walking home from church and they were playing these bad gospels. So that kind of feeling came back to me and I started remembering what that music sounded like and felt like. That feeling is what I was trying to get close to. That feeling had got in my creative blood, my imagination and I had forgotten it was there. I wrote this blues that tried to go back to that feeling I had when I was six years old, walking with a cousin along that dark Arkansas road. So I wrote about 5 bars of that and I recorded it and added a kind of running sound into the mix, because that was the only way I could get in the sound of the finger piano. But you write something and then guys play off it and take it someplace else through their creativity and imagination and you just miss where you thought you wanted to go. I was trying to do one thing and ended up doing something else.” (pg 234)
I imagine that the early followers of Jesus might have had a similar experience. In our passage from Acts for this week we read about how they shared the teachings of Jesus that they held in their memories. They were attempting to boldly preach the good news in the temple at Jerusalem. What they ended up doing was threatening the powers of the day. Was this their intent?
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