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The '''Jesus Movement''' or "Jesus Freaks" was a movement in the late 1960s and 1970s of former [[hippie]]s, [[drug]] addicts, [[occult]] and [[eastern religion]] practicioners, [[rock and roll]] musicians, etc. becoming born-again [[Christian]]s.  The movement stressed personal conversion to Jesus and outreach ministries in places the conventional churches paid little attention to at the time, such as coffee houses in inner cities.  One of the important churches of the movement was the [[Calvary Chapel]] of Costa Mesa, [[California]] founded by [[Chuck Smith]], which later grew into a major Christian [[denomination]].<ref>http://www.one-way.org/jesusmovement/index.html</ref>  The new young Christian converts were often disparaged as "Jesus freaks" by non-Christian hippies and supporters of the [[New Left]].

The '''Jesus Movement''' or "Jesus Freaks" was a movement in the late 1960s and 1970s of former [[hippie]]s, [[drug]] addicts, [[occult]] and [[eastern religion]] practitioners, [[rock and roll]] musicians, etc. becoming born-again [[Christian]]s.  The movement stressed personal conversion to Jesus and outreach ministries in places the conventional churches paid little attention to at the time, such as coffee houses in inner cities.  One of the important churches of the movement was the [[Calvary Chapel]] of Costa Mesa, [[California]] founded by [[Chuck Smith]], which later grew into a major Christian [[denomination]].<ref>http://www.one-way.org/jesusmovement/index.html</ref>  The new young Christian converts were often disparaged as "Jesus freaks" by non-Christian hippies and supporters of the [[New Left]].

Excerpts from an article in The Endeavour <ref>''Jesus People Caught Many By Surprise'' - Part I</ref> (April 1995), state,

Excerpts from an article in The Endeavour <ref>''Jesus People Caught Many By Surprise'' - Part I</ref> (April 1995), state,

While members of the Jesus Movement became, for the most part, conventional conservative Christians in their [[theology]] after conversion to Christ, they kept the external trappings of their hippie and [[counterculture]] backgrounds, including long hair and rock and roll music.  In a few cases some of the early Jesus Movement groups tried living communally, much as some secular hippies had tried.  In place of the two-fingered [[peace sign]] the Jesus Movement used a raised index finger, signifying "One Way".  Two songs very popular within the movement were "I Wish We'd All Been Ready", by Larry Norman about the [[rapture]], and "Pass It On", a [[hymn]] sung in many Jesus Movement churches.

While members of the Jesus Movement became, for the most part, conventional conservative Christians in their [[theology]] after conversion to Christ, they kept the external trappings of their hippie and [[counterculture]] backgrounds, including long hair and rock and roll music.  In a few cases some of the early Jesus Movement groups tried living communally, much as some secular hippies had tried.  In place of the two-fingered [[peace sign]] the Jesus Movement used a raised index finger, signifying "One Way".  Two songs very popular within the movement were "I Wish We'd All Been Ready", by Larry Norman about the [[rapture]], and "Pass It On", a [[hymn]] sung in many Jesus Movement churches.

The movement was not without its pitfalls.  Two of the major evangelists in the movement, [[Lonnie Frisbee]] and [[Mike Warnke]], are controversial. Frisbee (abused and sexually molested as a child), fell into [[homosexuality]], and died of AIDS in 1993,<ref>http://www.atu.edu/lfa/Brucker/Amst2003/presentations/14JesusMovement.pdf</ref> while Warnke was charged with (among other things) deception over claims he made regarding him being a former Satanic high preist.<ref>http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss098/warnke_index.htm<</ref> ref>http://www.watchman.org/occult/warnke.htm</ref> made Two well-known [[cult]]s, the [[Children of God]] and [[The Way International]], recruited their members among converts within the Jesus Movement.  But most of the Jesus Movement converts held rather conventional Christian beliefs but merely did not feel at home in the conventional churches and identified with a counterculture style.

The movement was not without its pitfalls.  Two of the major evangelists in the movement, [[Lonnie Frisbee]] and [[Mike Warnke]], are controversial. Frisbee (abused and sexually molested as a child), fell into [[homosexuality]], and died of AIDS in 1993,<ref>http://www.atu.edu/lfa/Brucker/Amst2003/presentations/14JesusMovement.pdf</ref> while Warnke was charged with (among other things) deception over claims he made regarding him being a former Satanic high priest.<ref>http://www.cornerstonemag.com/features/iss098/warnke_index.htm</ref> <ref>http://www.watchman.org/occult/warnke.htm</ref> made Two well-known [[cult]]s, the [[Children of God]] and [[The Way International]], recruited their members among converts within the Jesus Movement.  But most of the Jesus Movement converts held rather conventional Christian beliefs but merely did not feel at home in the conventional churches and identified with a counterculture style.

In 1971, Time magazine overall described the growing Jesus Movement positively, reporting (in part),  

In 1971, Time magazine overall described the growing Jesus Movement positively, reporting (in part),