Category Archives: Jesus Movement

Pioneering in the 21st Century

Posted on May 4, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Just what is pioneering in the 21st Century? Hasn’t everything already been mapped and charted? What frontiers are left? 

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Pioneers, then and now

Posted on May 3, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) At the beginning of the ‘70s, a group of us shook Christianity to its base. We burst on the scene seemingly unknown to each other yet all with the same … Continue reading →

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No resting on your laurels

Posted on April 29, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) 11. Young people showed up gifted and ready to go. In the early 1970s I was working with high school kids at a church in Palo Alto, California when the … Continue reading →

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For the love of the Word

Posted on April 28, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Series: Characteristics of the Jesus Movement for Today 10. There was a very literal interpretation of Scripture.   I have hidden your word in my heart     that I might not … Continue reading →

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Give them what we had

Posted on April 27, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch. Series: Characteristics of the Jesus Movement for Today 10. There was a very literal interpretation of Scripture It was a beautiful spring day in Palo Alto, California in 1970, and … Continue reading →

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Playing it forward

Posted on April 25, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Series: Characteristics of the Jesus Movement for Today 9. It shook Christianity to its roots (which is the meaning of “radical”). At the beginning of the 1970s, a small group … Continue reading →

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Urgent

Posted on April 22, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Series: Characteristics of the Jesus Movement for today 8. It was urgent. For whatever the reason, be it the soon-expected return of Christ, or simply the passion of getting the … Continue reading →

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The Church has left the Building

Posted on April 21, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Series: Characteristics of the Jesus Movement for today 7. It got the attention of the wider culture and was initially perceived curiously as something outside institutional church structures. Millennials, to … Continue reading →

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Out of control

Posted on April 20, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading today’s Catch.) Series: Characteristics of the Jesus Movement for today 6. There was no one in control.  The wind blows wherever it pleases. You hear its sound, but you cannot tell where … Continue reading →

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Be ready

Posted on April 19, 2022 by jwfisch

(Click here for a video of John reading this Catch.) Series: Characteristics of the Jesus Movement for today 5. It was believed to be the end times and that the return of Christ was imminent. Two men walking up a … Continue reading →

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