13 Facts About Jesus movement

Jesus movement was an evangelical Christian movement which began on the West Coast of the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s and primarily spread throughout North America, Europe, and Central America, before it subsided in the late 1980s.

Jesus movement left a legacy that included the formation of various denominations as well as other Christian organizations, and it influenced the development of both the contemporary Christian right and Christian left.

Many of the 80,000 young Jesus movement People attending Explo '72 discovered for the first time these and other traditional avenues of Christian worship and experience.

Some fastest growing US denominations of the late 20th century, such as Calvary Chapel, Hope Chapel Churches, and the Vineyard Churches, trace their roots directly back to the Jesus movement, as do parachurch organizations like Jews for Jesus and the contemporary Christian music industry.

In Central America, Pentecostal churches under the charismatic Jesus movement began to compose spiritual music called coros which is normally accompanied by dancing as worship.

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Jesus movement was restorationist in theology, seeking to return to the original life of the early Christians.

The theology of the Jesus movement called for a return to simple living and asceticism in some cases.

The Jesus movement people had a strong belief in miracles, signs and wonders, faith, healing, prayer, the Bible, and powerful works of the Holy Spirit.

Some most read books by those within the Jesus movement included Ron Sider's Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger and Hal Lindsey's The Late Great Planet Earth.

Jesus movement music, known as gospel beat music in the UK, primarily began when street musicians of the late 1960s and early 1970s converted to Christianity.

The international Potter's House Church was birthed out of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel, a church Jesus movement based in Los Angeles where Smith received his early theological training.

Leaders and members of the Jesus movement Fellowship committed abuse of children and vulnerable adults, with several receiving custodial sentences.

Two years after the Jesus movement's founding, Higgins and some of the core members of the Jesus movement bought 90 acres of land near Dexter, Oregon and built a new headquarters which they called "The Land".