John Fischer The Catch

He>i is more than a clothing brand from a company in Haleiwa, Hawaii, it is a logo that captures the statement in John 3:30 that He (Jesus) is greater than I (John). “He must become greater; I must become less.” How true. We need more of Jesus and less of everything else. This is the cry of the Jesus Movement made even more true today.

By “everything else” I mean just about everything one could think of in relation to Christianity or religion that has little or nothing to do with Jesus, or that takes away from attention upon Him.

We are seeing a lot of these things today. Today we are focusing on things that lead us away from Jesus like celebrity, morality, political power, empire-building, worship music (that worships itself or its performer(s), social action (not done in the name or the power of Jesus), Bible study (for its own sake), numbers (for the sake of success), and success (for the sake of numbers).

No wonder John announced that Jesus must become greater.

John announced when he was introducing Jesus to the people, we are looking to Jesus and watching everything else become less.

Instead of celebrity, we are making it clear that Jesus Christ is Lord, and there is no other.

Instead of morality, we are claiming God’s grace over our own immorality and passing that grace onto others through Christ’s death for us all on the cross.

Instead of political power, we have renounced earthly power in all forms and are claiming the power of Christ through His Holy Spirit.

Instead of building empires, we are building caring communities through our calling as the body of Christ.

Instead of worshiping worship, we are worshiping Jesus in simple ways that do not lift up anyone or anything but Him.

Jesus is greater than you, me, and everything else.

FIVE DAYS AND COUNTING!

Creating a New Song of Deliverance and Hope

Featuring:

Paul Clark, Nancy Honeytree, Barry McGuire, Glenn Kaiser, Randy Stonehill, John Fischer, Noel Paul Stookey and Ingemar Olsson.

You do not want to miss seeing and hearing these who have consistently lived within their prophetic message over these last 50 years. Come and hear what they have to say about a new movement for a new generation!

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Live Streaming on February 11, 2023 at 4pm Pacific

This is the most important question for those who witnessed or were influenced by the Jesus Movement and are now 60 and older. How can I sing a new song of deliverance to those who have no hope if I insist on remaining comfortable among those who do?

One of the most troubling developments that followed on the heels of the Jesus Movement was the development of a Christian subculture that quickly served to isolate believers from the very world that Jesus came to save. Suddenly it became more important to protect ourselves and our children from the evil, humanistic views of the secular culture than to truly care about delivering those who were trapped by those views and philosophies with the love of Jesus. It started out as a subtle shift, but it had a huge effect on the welcoming aspect of the gospel.

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Our Catch today comes in the words of Paul Clark, who, in response to yesterday’s Catch wrote the following. This is an important message to all of us.

In 1976, after 6 years of following Jesus and 5 years of non-stop touring, I stopped to catch my breath and take inventory of what I was doing.

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In the early 1970s I was working with high school kids at a church in Palo Alto, California when the Jesus Movement started. In a matter of weeks, our attendance went from 30 to 300. And they didn’t come to youth group to socialize or play volleyball. They came with their Bibles and wanted to study the word. They were hungry for truth.

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Sunday morning early noon

I wandered in a chilly room and sat

Unnoticed

There were lonely people there

Who listened to a man who didn’t care

Or show it

He just talked about nothing

I could not understand

I stood up and I cried

Listen to me

Don’t you see

You’re not speaking

Openly

I need someone who will help

Set me free

          by John Fischer from the song “Cold Cathedral”

My 1969 album, The Cold Cathedral, considered by many rock historians to be the first contemporary Christian album on record, featured a song about a young man walking into a church and pleading for someone to care about him. It captured what many of us as young people were experiencing as the irrelevancy of the church to what we were seeking about the world around us and our place in it. It connected with a generation that was looking for spiritual answers to a chaotic world, but finding that the institutional church was not prepared for their questions or long hair and jeans.

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A fresh new thing is happening in our earth — the earth in which God’s Son paid the price for our lives. And it shall bear fruit, even greater than has taken place in the past. For Christ’s forerunning ways shall make manifest no longer a stereotype, but a prototype of His Kingdom, because the door that He has ordained shall be walked through with liberty and authority, and a new song — a song of deliverance and hope shall be heard — a song that will bring testimony of His glory, and a song that will cause those that have no hope to hear and run towards Jesus and not away from Him.

God has ordained us to be the testimony of His overwhelming love and wisdom. This wisdom will be manifest in and through all that will break the yoke. The sound in the earth of His glory and righteousness shall be heard in future generations to the last one. All who hear it will love with new freshness as He draws them by His spirit. This is the hour of fresh beginnings. Let anticipation bring faith, and faith shall express God’s heart. And the days ahead shall bring even greater fruit than before. “I am that I am,” and I am yours, says the Lord.

COMING SOON

Barry McGuire, Noel Paul Stookey, Randy Stonehill, Nancy Honeytree, Paul Clark, Ingemar Olsson, and Glenn Kaiser, come together to talk about the Jesus Movement and about bringing it forward to today.

Don’t miss this special opportunity coming February 10!

Before Christian music was contemporary and Christian radio played it …

Before tours and contracts,

Before careers and airplay,

Before Perrier in the dressing room,

Before Christian promoters, producers, and roadies,

Before Christian busses and semis and record execs,

Before Christian was an adjective,

Before worship was music,

Before Moral was a Majority and Christian was a Coalition,

Before Christianity became political,

Before we knew what we were doing… there was Jesus music.

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