Today’s Catch is the introduction to John Fischer’s new book, Countercultural Christianity, a gift to all who are participating in the Catch Ministry’s “I’m Younger Than That Now” Annual Campaign.

At the beginning of the Seventies, a small group of musicians shook Christianity to its core. They burst on the scene seemingly unknown to each other yet all with the same message. The message was about Jesus and how His gospel related to the deep, unresolved needs of their generation for love, meaning, community, peace and justice. These “Jesus Freaks” melded the freedom of the Sixties and the Jesus of the Gospels into a new way of looking at Christianity.

Fifty years later, the people who rallied around that message are now members and leaders of a new church that has gained cultural significance as a moral and political force in society — an issue-oriented message that has overshadowed the gospel message that once rallied Jesus Freaks around Christ.

What has happened to their voices? Are they forgotten remnants of a long lost spiritual renewal or are they speaking with new relevance as older, wiser pioneers peering into a new frontier?

These are people with very distinct views of Christianity. They epitomize the best of the best of a movement that blew fresh air through the Church and society in general.

This book is a new way of looking at a time and a generation that laid the groundwork for today’s Christianity.

It will be embraced by people whose lives were marked by the social and religious upheavals of the Sixties and Seventies. This book will also be welcomed by those in their twenties and thirties who are currently undergoing similar societal stresses and asking many of the same questions.

Countercultural Christianity is a book that seeks to change the current social and religious debate by reminding readers that the present suburban Christianity is a child of the Jesus Movement that was celebrated in the marketplace and parent to a Christianity yet to see the light of Twenty-first century day.

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