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The term Jesus People is used to describe the group of originally outcasts, drug-obsessed, and all-around anti-religious who during the 1960s and 1970s turned towards the Christian faith and Jesus. They took the Bible and Jesus and began to understand it in their own lives and reformed their lifestyles for the better.
- How It Started
- The ‘Street Christians’
- Spread of The Movement
- A Hip Christianity
- A Lasting Impact
The reasons behind the rise of the hippie movement were complex: A rejection of conformity and materialism in American culture and the emergence of a drug culture both played a part. The 1960s counterculture also contained a decidedly spiritual dimension that attracted a great deal of hippie interest. The movement incorporated meditation, the occul...
Drawn by nationwide publicity, somewhere between 75,000 and 100,000 youth came to Haight-Ashbury during the spring and early summer of 1967. Many became homeless, hungry and sick, and Wise urged Pastor John MacDonald to do somethingto help. As MacDonald relates in his 1970 book “House of Acts,” he decided to tour San Francisco with Wise. He saw the...
Meanwhile, others in the Bay Area such as Kent Philpott, a Baptist seminary student, and his hippie friend David Hoyt also began to preach on the streets. By late 1968 they had opened a shelter called “The Soul Inn”in the basement of a small Baptist church in the city’s adjacent Richmond district. Wise and his friends established a Christian commun...
One of the things that attracted youth to the Jesus People was their enthusiastic use of folk, pop and rock music. While many conservative churches had traditionally frowned on “worldly entertainments,”the Jesus freaks embraced their generation’s musical tastes. Whether singing simple choruses in their gatherings, listening to guitar-strumming arti...
By the late 1970s, however, the Jesus People had run out of steam. The hippie style grew less popular among teens. New styles of music and fashion came into vogue, and the Jesus People themselves grew older and moved on with their lives. But their impact lived on in a number of ways. The success of the Jesus People and their sometimes grudging acce...
Jul 28, 2019 · Tapping into disenchantment with the swinging 60s, the Jesus People were a countercultural Christian evangelical revival that spread from San Francisco across the world.
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How did the Jesus People Movement impact Christianity in America? Covered widely by secular society and the media. Led a resurgence of U.S. evangelicalism through young people. Introduced contemporary styles of worship and a new liturgical order. Helped institutions today refocus by emphasizing three key missional theologies:
Mar 19, 2023 · The Jesus People Movement has been dubbed the last great American revival, yet the UK also felt its impact in a variety of ways. From the charismatic Church networks it birthed to contemporary worship styles, the story of the Jesus People has shaped the UK evangelical Church.
Jun 16, 2014 · My primary takeaway from God’s Forever Family is the positive spiritual potential created by stressful cultural upheaval. The Jesus Movement sprang out of the collision of mainstream evangelical Christianity, which had become tired and outdated, with the hippie counterculture of those times.
