Blue like Jazz

In chapter fourteen in “Blue like Jazz”, Miller writes “when a person has no other persons he invents them because he was not designed to be alone, because it isn’t good for a person to be alone”(Miller 158). Miller states that God created human kind to have communities and not to be alone. Throughout Millers lifetime, he lived alone for years and discovered the only thing that it led too was self-obsession. He soon learned how wrong this action was and how he needed to change his selfish ways in order to show Gods love to others. A few main points Miller makes include, nobody will listen to you unless they like you, God will bless you and provide for you for financially serving His kingdom and lastly, how jazz music relates to Christianity. Miller argues that he saw the importance of needing to be a part of a community. He once thought, “..Christian faith, was something a person did alone, like monks in caves”(Miller 175). But he grew to understand that faith is not something you do alone. You need a Christian community surrounding you in order to grow along with God. He came to understand how wrong it was to be addicted to himself instead of caring about other people. Living alone only encouraged this behavior because the only person he had to look after daily was himself. “Jesus does not want us floating through space or sitting in front of our televisions. Jesus wants us interacting, eating together, laughing together and praying together. Loneliness is something that came with the fall”(Miller 173). This quote explains that loneliness was something that happened when sin entered the world and that Jesus did not create it. It was never his intention for people to suffer from being alone, but instead he wanted man kind to interact and spend time together. In chapter sixteen, Miller explains that all of our money is essentially Gods. “God wants us to give a portion of our money to His work on earth. By setting aside money from every check, you are trusting