The Jesus Movement of the 1970's was a sovereign move of the Holy Spirit among the youth culture throughout all parts of western civilization, especially here in the United States. It wasn't simply a fad that somehow "caught on", with lots of young people just thinking it was a cool thing to do. It began completely independently in widely separated areas among people with no connection at all to each other. All over, these young people were having radical life-changing encounters with Jesus Christ, Himself. Some of them experienced this in the context of a local church or ministry. Others were brought into this experience by their recently-enlightened friends, or maybe even by the simple words of total strangers. In homes, churches, & coffeehouses they all began gathering together in groups with other young people who'd had similar experiences, to better understand just what had happened to them and to learn more about Jesus from the Bible...
