The Jesus Movement: 40 Years Later

A panel discussion with seminary professors of New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary discussing the Jesus Movement and how it impacted their lives.

[@IamtheKingsman]

Frankly, God was so kind to rescue me. How can I, or could I abandon The Lord Jesus. I'm 73 now, have founded 15 churches, still preach occasionally, counsel, teach classes twice a week, and sing and play my keyboard besides running a transitional home for men trying to get back on their feet. Thank you Lord for saving me-I praise your Holy Name forever!

[@thealacour1147]

Amen!!!

[@benantell5452]

I got saved in 1975 in Sweden on the same wave...it never stopped. I travel and pray for people in different countries for free. God still does miracles!

[@petelarosa282]

Amen

[@vwalden8275]

Another Jesus Movement person here. Lived in one of the first Christian houses from Calvary in Costa Mesa. Went on to Multnomah School of the Bible, Portland, came from a Baptist background originally. While at Multnomah the first time, I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit, but not at Multnomah, with a group of believers who I had met in my Christian service coffeehouse duties..then went back to SoCal where Chuck, my former high school Bible teacher at a Christian high school had started Calvary. So...where is the great sweeping move of the Holy Spirit today? We used to just grab our Bibles, find another believer and say 'Let's go witnessing'. I also, like others have said here, don't feel comfortable in any churches in my area today. It seems they've become 'social groups'. I don't feel the anointing of the Holy Spirit in most churches I've been to for many years. So, I listen to KZbin sermons from pastors who really seem to have a relationship with the Lord and the Holy Spirit. I often feel alone, thank God for a Christian husband. I just don't want to go to churches that are 'Starbucks with steeples'. Even the Christian coffeehouses back then were places where people were getting saved, healed and delivered. I hope and pray I live to see another great move of the Holy Spirit. This world needs it desperately. We need to come together as the body of Christ, so much division. P.S. I remember the night the 15-year-old girl came in stoned off the beach, some of our house members had found her and brought her in. We prayed, she was saved and her life changed, and she was one of the photos inside the magazine (Life or Look?) back then. Yes, these things really happened. This was real!

[@joyjeffcoat8711]

I was part of the Jesus Movement received the Baptism in my home alone in 1975. One of the greatest things to happen to me after Salvation. I feel the same can't find Charismatic churches anymore no move of God. I have been praying for 35 years that God would let me live long enough to see another Jesus Movement. Then I found Sean Feucht he has been traveling around the U.S with another Jesus Movement.

[@LeeKobe1]

@@joyjeffcoat8711 My story is very similar. Accepted Christ in 1975. I believe God will always move when people genuinely seek Him. "Draw near to Him and He will draw near to us." (Slightly paraphrased). In our formerly, very traditional, local church, God is beginning to move. We're in a tilling process currently. New music and actual worship is slowly beginning to happen. Sadly, some folks are leaving but God is bringing new ones in. It's very exciting!

[@joyjeffcoat8711]

@@LeeKobe1 Don't know if you remember during the Jesus Movement many churches split and even among believers churches split over pre-trib and mid-trib. My step aunt and uncle went to a tiny church in Gotebo Okla and one morning the Holy Ghost hit that church. Half of the church were slain in the spirit and the others were standing not having any idea what was going on. They started speaking in tongues they were the ones seeking God and lived a Christ life. It happened like that all over the world.

[@projectdesign4675]

@@joyjeffcoat8711 those moments did happen Joy, not very often, but they did....I saw 40,000 people at Jesus Northwest 1978 utterly wrenched in the Holy Spirit in conviction, while Keith Green was exhorting...that (so I heard) was the last time God moved that way in Keiths ministry......it was Pentecost......we saw a few mini Pentecosts after that.....most were far behind us.....soon, God will move!

[@lindacooper3757]

@@joyjeffcoat8711 It's coming now ! The young people of today need so desperately to be stirred by the holy spirit !

[@nataliehieb7065]

I love this walk down memory lane!! I accepted Jesus in 1974 in a small Southern Baptist church and was baptized shortly after. The music from that time really impacted me. I still have my Maranatha music LP and other albums from Christian artists of that time. I believe that I am a member of the Jesus Movement even though I was not from the area where it started. To this day, I am still a Jesus freak! Thank you for sharing this!

[@GolerGulch]

Yes 1970 was when I too came to know Jesus because one of the Jesus People witnessed to me when I visited their coffee house. What a special time that was for so many of us.

[@IamtheKingsman]

I was one of the founders of the Jesus People Movement in Salt Lake City. You're right-Most of us grew up-we are still living for The Lord and either went back into the churches to re-evangelize them or, like me, became church planters. We did not abandon God-a lot of us have died-a lot of us struggle with our health, and are feeble. Many of our numbers have become able theologians, but all of us have, or are in the process of passing the baton on to the next generation.

[@decisionforchristwithpasto7911]

Great history and insights of the most underrated and underestimated revivals in history. It had a massive impact for decades. As its influence wanes today, it appears another fire may have begun at Asbury in 2023. May the Holy Spirit inspire us to fan the flames and see it spread across the nation and around the world. Oh how we need revival!

[@cjadream7]

It's amazing to hear seminary professors speak this way about Jesus. You will not believe how much this alone has changed.

[@nataliehieb7065]

The Jesus Movement influenced me too. I became a Christian in 1974 and listened to the music artists of that time. What an amazing time! I would like to see another Jesus movement and revival.

[@michaelsack6700]

" I would like to see another Jesus movement and revival " . Yes, this is necessary ... look, here is no other comment like this now, oh oh ! ! ! And I hope, you are really on the small way and not in wrong conditiones.

[@timothybazemore3299]

Me too in Fall 1971

[@keyshavega4744]

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[@AngeloPerfili]

@@keyshavega4744 seriously tho'....

[@marilynleslie472]

I am came to Christ in 1972; there were about 30 of us in our high school. We attended Bible studies two nights a week. We were hungry for God’s Word!

[@shirleybowers7251]

Here, as well and I'm still strong in Jesus! Just listened to Honeytree's "Pioneer" this morning. Doug Sheets had mentioned her in his "Give Him 15" message recently. So many amazing ministries born through that move of God and the prayers and lives of those saints who had gone before. What an awesome heritage we believers have in Christ and His Kingdom Covenant as well as a glorious future face to face. To God be the glory! Grace and Peace to all in His love. 🙏♥️✝️✡🇺🇸🇮🇱🎺📣

[@paulgonzales3116]

I became a Christian in June 1972 at Explo72 in Dallas. I was a found 25 year the. This week long event was an unbelievable experience and revival. Especially Friday nite the candle light event and the following day Saturday a Christian music concert. About 200,000 young and old showed up. The jesus movement transformed my life since I was a hippie on alcohol and drugs and was also suicidal. We need a movement like that again today. 50 years later.

[@pckeller7400]

The Jesus mmovement was when i feel i was saved, during that time of the move of God. Calvary Chapel and Pastor Chuck, Maranatha music, i feel the conection with.

[@michaelnewzealand1888]

Wow, that was amazing. Its so great to see these guys in suits so learned and distinguished looking but on the inside just lovely brothers in Christ who love the Lord and have experienced his power in their life. Let's keep praying for another great revival one more time before the Lord's soon return. Praise the Name of the Saviour Jesus.

[@user-pu8px9on8h]

Thank you for your commitment

[@denniscraven8438]

It has a profound effect on my wife and I too. Thanks so much for posting this. We just watched the Lonnie Frisbee documentary last night.

[@webshepherd1852]

Thanks guys! I loved hearing about your experience in the Jesus Movement!

[@ilyaangere3152]

God bless you brothers!!! I had a mini revival in my heart after hearing your testimonies!

[@thealacour1147]

Me, too!

[@brucesherborne408]

The move is still happening and Waymen Mitchell tapped into what God was doing in the Jesus people movement in Prescott Arizona and today Christian Fellowship Ministries is still impacting nations with the Gospel with some 3500 churches in 120 nations coming from that original Prescott congregation of 25 people. Pastor Mitchell always said what God had done and was doing is a work of God and not of man. Thank God that he moved and what has happened, is happening and what God is about to do in these last days.

[@LeeKobe1]

It's refreshing to see all of these testimonies of the profound depth of the Jesus movement! My story is very similar. I also feel that, like the 1960's and 1970's, the world is ripe for another amazing move of God. I've been studying Amos 9 and Acts 15, where God promises to restore Davidic praise and worship in the last days. It's happening all over the world, and has been since the 70's. Same Holy Spirit, but new wave! Hallelujah!

[@keyshavega4744]

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[@tabasca007]

loved this! thanks!

[@projectdesign4675]

What these men are talking about was real and it was a global stunner!... this out pouring was roughly from 68 - 80.....I was saved in 78 and enjoyed what seemed to be a constant immersing in the presence of Jesus Christ....it faded beginning in 1980, but I had it inside me (still do) ....I always tried (with young people) and as a youth pastor to stir it up again...and it happened, but only in small groups and not for long...well into the 90's....Jesus is sneaky....it will happen again, it will be "deeply protected", this time it will be more powerful and underground (obviously with some public exposure)......the land will soon cry in repentance!

[@pdd60absorbed12]

Late to the movement (saved in 77) and really got fed from radio ministries, reading Genesis to Revelation in a couple months, listened to early Paul Clark, Keaggy, Grant, Chris Christian. Remember driving I-5 through Seattle thinking I wouldn't trade the wealth and status of this whole city for Christ. Nothing was too much to overcome. PTL.

[@projectdesign4675]

Yes, I was saved in 78 in Portland area.....fabulous teachers and saints back then, I was just hitch hiking thru....stayed for 18 years!

[@TimOestmann]

thanks, they were really interesting to listen to

[@TK-qu1ht]

I was at Explo 72. I worked for Crusade at the time. Bless you guys!

[@alanc1491]

Praise God! This brings back such sweet memories. In Dallas the hippies hung out every weekend at Lee Park and the Jesus People were always there. Unfortunately, so were the "Children of God," handing out their pornographic tracts and inviting people to love feasts in nearby Mingus/Thurber, Texas. A friend went and said they all circled him and closed in with "love bombing," which totally creeped him out. I've always wondered how many young people they turned off from Jesus with their wicked antics. But back to the good news, I was later baptized in a horse trough at Calvary Chapel Denver. Our God is awesome!

[@rhhebert4151]

I was at Explo 72 and too am praying for revival in this country. We need a movement of Christ, of people leaving secularism, cynicism, humanism, disregard for God's word and ways, for innocent human life. I pray for the Spirit of the Lord to work in all Christians and through them to the world. Thank you for posting this. God bless you all.

[@bifflarson3751]

Hey did the Jesus movement people have any exchanges or meetings with the eastern( Hindu, Yogi,Krishna,etc.) that also seemed to capture the youth at the time? Jesus' works have always been transformational AND transcendental to me. Meditation and the Holy Spirit seem like a match made in Heaven...so to speak.

[@macpduff2119]

Biff Larson The Jesus movement, - was really a sweeping of the Holy Spirit among the least likely of society at the time. Mainly America's youth which had already tried meditation, Yoga, Zen Bhudism, drugs, sex, hedonism, rebellion, etc. - and found those experiences to be deadends. It was a generation open to every answer EXCEPT Jesus. That is what makes that powerful sweeping of The Holy Spirit so jawdropping amazing! I believe the Jesus movement phenomenae to be the 20th C Great Revival. Every century since America's beginnings, God has sent a Great Revival. It was not a "movement" of meetings and men. It was a movement of God that gave a generation - and this nation a short reprieve

[@bifflarson3751]

***** ...that's interesting. Thank you for responding. I've always found the Eastern approach to body awareness very life sustaining for the fleshly part of my existence. Circulatory, blood pressure, stress reduction, muscular tension, etc., have all been reduced by years of stretching, breathing and stillness. I never took to the mantras and deities of Hinduism and The Buddha because it just wasn't my culture. At the the time I didn't view them as Demonic as many of my Christian family does it just wasn't my goal to adopt an Eastern faith. I was introduced to Yoga as a health benefit while my meditation was on Biblical Scripture and probing the deeper levels of the Word thru prayer fasting and the Jawdropping Holy Spirit you spoke of. Early Morning(Dawn) prayer and meditation over these many Years with the Holy Spirit has truly been a blessing in my Life. More than I could ever have imagined.

[@macpduff2119]

Biff Larson The Holy Spirit enters the life of every believer and we experience the results as we spend time with Him (prayer, meditation, etc). He guides us, develops us, and enables us to live a mature Christian life. It would be impossible to be a Christian without God's Spirit living within us. That in itself is a miracle, so I don't want to sound like I'm downplaying that ministry of The Spirit. But, witnessing the unexpected wholesale sweeping into the Kingdom of God of an alienated lost American generation was indescribable. I was one of those unexpected converts. I felt like I was dragged kicking and screaming into a Kingdom that I didn't believe existed and wasn't interested in it if it did exist. For me it was a Saul of Tarsus moment, that was repeated millions of times among my age group. One morning I woke up an antagonistic atheist, and by that afternoon, I was reading bible verses - and the meanings were jumping off the pages. Not only was I converted, but Jesus downloaded the needed software in my spirit so I had insight/knowledge I didn't get from books or seminary. I was not unique. What happened to me was happening all over the country among the Hippies and Flower children.

[@linjicakonikon7666]

I was 18 in 1971, caught up in all this delusional stuff. I'm 69 and believe the REAL Gospel. God will reconcile ALL to himself. I left the church and it's heresies years ago. I'm glad God has saved us for himself. No Endless bewilderment about what constitutes "saving faith

[@balticseam]

Thanks for sharing, a god report. Personally I and many other young people in Sweden, Scandinavia and Finland had similar experienses at the same times. I have found out that a common thing with the move in the Usa was praying grandmothers and other conserned Christians that come together. They were worried about what was going on in the youth world with drugs etc. They prayed and acted started youth coffe-houses, reached out to the streets. Soon a counter-movement filled with Gods love begun.

[@jerseycowboy1]

Back in Jersey we called these bible studies Coffee houses we held services at fire stations or anywhere we could find. It was a start of my relationship with Jesus. I remember black lights were popular and many of us had black light Jesus Posters and such.

[@ChiliMcFly1]

We baptize with water but he will come and baptize in the Holy Spirit, Amen.

[@KoolKatRecordingStudios]

Yes, I also got Born-Again during that Time, except I was sent to South Korea as a Soldier with The US Army, amongst MANY Others In South Korea, both American Soldiers there & South Korean Citizens& Thats where I Got Born-Again While The Outpouring Of The Spirit Of God was Occuring In Both South Korea & The USA Similtaneously; REVIVAL Brothers!

[@tanglediver]

The Jesus Movement; 2100 years later.

[@decisionforchristwithpasto7911]

Btw, the fabulously genius Wittenburg Door was birthed out of the Jesus Movement and Chick tracts became very popular during that time.

[@jennifermuller9714]

please pray for Tyler Dougall that he would know the truth and be set free and get saved

[@shirleybowers7251]

Dear Jennifer, just prayed for Tyler. Thanks for sharing. God bless you. 🙏♥️✝️✡🇺🇸🇮🇱🎺📣

[@programamobtv3576]

Esse movimento tem sido um guidaste para nosso programa de evangelização MOB . Emocionante ver a repercussão que ele teve; muitos edificados, salvos em Jesus; chorando!

[@terrylenstra818]

I liked the comment "with a fire you will always have some wildfire"

[@LuvinJesusynot]

One remarkable thing about so-called, 'Jesus Movement' was the way that the Lord called us out of the muck and mire of the world, and out of denominationalism. Its so sad that that most went back to that sin. The result is seen in the saltlessness of the cities. Judgment is first on the house of the Lord. and by the way, Lonnie and Chuck were not the originators of any 'movement' but all glory goes to the Holy Spirit who sovereignly moved on people born after the 2nd W. war.

[@projectdesign4675]

Yes, the moves of God are untraceable.......even tho many ascribe names, you can never corner anyone ministry as its origin!

[@carolgoering6585]

Don't forget, someone told you about Jesus. Go out and share that good new with others!

[@christianp.a.ferraro9272]

Where in Melbourne FL?

[@shirleybowers7251]

Oh, and "Fishnet" in Front Royal, VA. And "Creation" in Pennsylvania. Could go on and on. So thankful to our Lord Jesus for all his goodness. Maranatha! 🙏♥️✝️✡🇺🇸🇮🇱🎺📣

[@wildbillhackett]

No mention of The Glass Harp (with Phil Keaggy) circa 1970

[@williampyle8635]

THERE are BACK..part two.

[@carolgoering6585]

Don't forget the I Found It campaign.

[@carolgoering6585]

In the early 60's Ray Stanford started a Christian youth group in Miami called ranch . There were hundreds of kids that went to his youth group. The kids grew up and Ray started a Bible College (Florida Bible College). The kids from Ray's ranch graduated from Ray's Bible College and went on to start their own ranch's around the nation. 1000's came to know Jesus from the start of that youth group in Miami. I trusted Christ at "ranch" called Kibbutz in St. Louis. The man that founded Kibbutz was a graduate of FBC and had trained with Moishe Rosen the founder of the Jews For Jesus. Many Jewish teens came to know Jesus as their Messiah. Many from Kibbutz also went on to Bible college (including myself) and are in some sort of ministry today.

[@nathanprophet7010]

In 1972 I had been saved since 1968. But as there was no one teaching me and as I was hungry to know and be close to God, I began to read the New Testament, and a Hindu book on becoming a yogi. In the yogi book a chapter discussed a lad who approached the yogi master to join the "path". This yogi rejected the boy saying he was too tainted by the world. He was told to come back in his next life. I was very disturbed by this. I remembered reading in Matthew " come all you who are weak and heavily burdened and I will give you rest.... and I will in no way cast you out". I became concerned of not being good enough for the yogi master myself. So I turned totally to Christ. Because He said He'd not turned me away. I'm still with Him. PTL!!!

[@sergiollyra]

Q linda história!!!!! ☆ Jesus vive

[@smoothestones1]

It's funny to see former Jesus people as profs. It would be fun to see pics of them in their hippie/Jesus people days. People ask what happened to the Jesus freaks. We grew up. duh Also, it's refreshing to hear about others who were in the movement cuz you only hear about Calvary Chapel and a few others. The church went outside. That's a good assessment of the Jesus movement.

[@utubehound69]

It's sad right? CC is gone Ecumenical.

[@Rosstc88]

The other side - dudes who stayed the course - me I backslid a # of times from the late 1960's up until late 2011 _ God is good!

[@RioSul50]

Come Alive Jesus 75

[@AZtrueflow18]

why did the jesus movement die out

[@hazzachannel1]

WE HAVEN'T, STILL OUT THERE !

[@christianp.a.ferraro9272]

Jesus movement part 2 revival is coming

[@hazzachannel1]

am in it. lol JESUS IS STILL REACHING OUT.

[@macpduff2119]

hazza harris Of course Jesus continues to save. What is being referred to is the Great Revival of the 20th C. America - when God's Spirit reached out and saved the generation born during and after WWII from going over the Abyss.

[@keymankeys1960]

Christian,P.A. Ferraro Brother I pray , hope and long for the rival of the Jesus movement , all we cared about was JESUS , love and leading people to Jesus .

[@eileenmcgrath4457]

I wonder if any of these Baptist men received the gift of glossalalia (speaking/praying in tongues)?

[@nextbreathdotorg]

Jesus Christ Superstar was NOT blasphemous!!

[@jensandersen7011]

Neither is The Life of Brian.

[@Pfsif]

Alternative title; From Disciple to Pharisee.

[@jensandersen7011]

Je$u$ people.

[@happyhippyhaven]

The Jesus movement was a splinter group with the hippy cult. I found myself moving into that splinter group. We changed the face of the church body. The older people including the strangely died hair left, giving us room to take a building and fill it with the love we spoke of as hippies. I have moved on to become an athiest believing in the words of John Lennon in "Imagine".

[@kevinharris777]

Despite any movements or personal journeys, the issue here is who Jesus is. Is he who he claimed to be? I hope you'll look directly at his claims. If true, then Jesus is the only way to the unity that John Lennon imagined in that song!

[@chuckstranahan5600]

@@kevinharris777 "Imagine there's no heaven" sung in soft, melliflous tones, is a proclamation of deceit, a colossal lie from the Father of Lies. Buy into it and you're captive to the deception. We know better, deep in our souls. There is a hereafter - this life isn't all there is. Jesus gives us hope, truth, love, peace, forgiveness, and the promise of heaven. So sad that John Lennon missed it.

[@kevinharris777]

@@chuckstranahan5600 Well, he certainly missed it in the message of that song, but there are some good reports that Lennon became a Christian not long before his death. I hope so!

[@vdep3]

Thank you for your testimony. But, please pay attention to your weight... The sin of gluttony is so prevelant in America and not spoken about due to being socially unacceptable... Wake up church.. it's a slippery slope you're sliding down! ❤️