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Jesus Revolution

Riders

Riders

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It's coming out this year. It's about the charismatic movement of the '70s and also the Christian communes of the seventies. Let me know if it's any good.
 
Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Riders said:
It's coming out this year. It's about the charismatic movement of the '70s and also the Christian communes of the seventies. Let me know if it's any good.
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If it's like Godspell or JC Superstar. Might have a chance.


Only problem is the word charismatic , and we all know what Jesus Camp brought to the table with that crazy Becky as their featured star if it goes that route.
 
Windwalker

Windwalker

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Hah. It looks cool. It's got the actor who plays Jesus in the series The Chosen. What looks interesting about it to me is that's my generation, and there was this whole "Jesus is cool" movement going on back then when I was around 13 or so.

My introduction to Jesus was at Jesus Christ Superstar in the local theater. And then there was the whole Doobie Brothers, "Jesus is just Alright" song on the radio. Plus other popular songs of the day that made Jesus a "thing" for the young folks, without it being this "preachy" garbage of the different evangelists. It was in its own way a subculture.

They had the Jesus People church in the Twin Cities, and the like. I think this movie is to kind of bring to light some of that early hippy Jesus movement that was happen back then.
Very interested in see this touching on that time.

 
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Viker

Viker

Häxan
Windwalker said:
Hah. It looks cool. It's got the actor who plays Jesus in the series The Chosen. What looks interesting about it to me is that's my generation, and there was this whole "Jesus is cool" movement going on back then when I was around 13 or so.

My introduction to Jesus was at Jesus Christ Superstar in the local theater. And then there was the whole Doobie Brothers, "Jesus is just Alright" song on the radio. Plus other popular songs of the day that made Jesus a "thing" for the young folks, without it being this "preachy" garbage of the different evangelists. It was in its own way a subculture.

They had the Jesus People church in the Twin Cities, and the like. I think this movie is to kind of bring to light some of that early hippy Jesus movement that was happen back then. Revolution to Revival: How the Jesus People Movement Turned North Central From Cynicism Into Awakening

Very interested in see this touching on that time.

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Hippies. Hippies for Jesus. :rolleyes:

:p
 
Windwalker

Windwalker

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Viker said:
Hippies. Hippies for Jesus. :rolleyes:

:p
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Exactly what it was. That's when the charismatic movement really started. It was youth counterculture who found an alternative to the destructive drug culture through an experiential form of religion, hence some of the pentecostal experience broke free from denominational separation and found its way into mainstream churches. That's what the charismatics were.

Heck in its own right, it was like what was happening with Eastern religion coming into the West through the Beatles. It was just the "mysticism" of the Pentecostals breathing some life into the dead formal religions of mainstream Protestant churches. It was safer in some ways than to venture too far from the religious shores of home, off into the Eastern religions from another culture.

What the charismatics look like today is of course just what happens when the cutting edge becomes mainstreamed. It becomes the thing that needs to be broken free from itself. Jesus breathed new life into Judaism, which became a movement, which then became its own religion, which then needs new life breathed into it, which then bred a new movement, which then became mainstreamed, which then needs new life breathed into it, and on and on the cycle goes. :)
 
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Twilight Hue

Twilight Hue

Twilight, not bright nor dark, good nor bad.
Kenny said:
Looks pretty good.

Chosen is amazing!
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If I was still a Christian, I'd agree.

There used to be a Christian theater where I used to live and went to when I was young. The movie sounds perfect for that venue.
 
Kenny

Kenny

Face to face with my Father
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Valjean said:
Exactly! It was Hippies recognizing that Jesus -- as depicted in his teachings -- was one of them; same peace, love, equality rhetoric.
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I have a friend who is a product of that movement in California. Amazing how many lives were transformed in that movement.
 
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