At the beginning of the Seventies, John, along with several others, shook Christianity to its base. 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. The “Jesus Freaks” (as they were called then) melded the freedom of the sixties and the Jesus of the gospels into a new way of looking at Christianity. They epitomized the best of the best of a movement that vitalized the Church and blew fresh air throughout our culture.
Do you sense it? There’s a revolution in the air — a spiritual revolution. You sense it most among the young people — the millennials, those between 18-29 who are not interested in the issue-oriented Christianity they grew up with. Christianity has been too long defined in terms of what you are “for or against.” If you are against something you perceive as wrong, you are making a stand for what is right. We no longer want to set ourselves up against culture. We and the millennials want to define ourselves in terms of what we are for. We want to rise up in the culture.
I can’t wait to see your videos. “It is nothing short of a miracle that I am doing this in a bathing suit,” Linda wrote along with hers from a swimming pool in the Dominican Republic. “I am a recovering compulsive eater who had huge body issues and I am also recovering from the legalism of a very strict Pentecostal church, which I still love in many other ways … so, take what you like and leave the rest.” How beautiful is that? We like it all, Linda!
John Fischer The Catch 