John Fischer The Catch

I just spent a hour with my “riding on the coattails of the Millennials” son. (He is our mid-life crisis.) For over an hour, he taught me about twitter. And I can honestly say that after an hour, I learned … well, I learned … actually, I’m not sure what I learned. Okay, I did learn that if you click on the little blue circle with the plus sign in the middle, you can post a tweet. That’s if you can find the little blue circle with the plus sign in the middle. It’s not on every page you go to in twitter.

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And when I came to you, brethren, I did not come with superiority of speech or of wisdom, proclaiming to you the testimony of God. For I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified. I was with you in weakness and in fear and in much trembling, and my message and my preaching were not in persuasive words of wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power, so that your faith would not rest on the wisdom of men, but on the power of God. (1 Corinthians 2:1-5)

If I told you we were going to change the world with a message about someone who died which we would deliver without any finesse and with great fear and trembling, you would tell me to go find another strategy. Yet that is exactly what Paul, the great apostle and founder of the church did. And the original Jesus Music artists all would agree. The message of Christ on the cross and the power of the Holy Spirit to drive it home are the two most important things about the Jesus Movement then and now.

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The early songwriters, musicians and performers were the unwitting prophets of the Jesus Movement. Unwitting, because, by and large, they were unaware of the importance of their role in this movement. Ask them. They will tell you they were just doing what they had to do. The song was laid on their heart. They had to write it. And once they wrote it, they had to sing it; and once they sang it, they had to talk about it. Thus, not only were they the prophets of the movement, they were, in effect, the preachers (though most of them would deny that).

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Last Friday I had the privilege of interviewing Randy Stonehill and you now have the privilege of watching it. And it is a privilege. Randy is so quirky and unpredictable that he’s just entertaining to be around. In this interview Randy talks about his conversion experience in Larry Norman’s kitchen upon their first meeting, and about the Jesus Movement, and what we can learn from it for today.

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