Grooving for God…Fifty-five years this summer, as the Woodstock Festival in upstate New York became a symbol of the counterculture movement, another groundswell was occurring: the Jesus Movement. In 1970, teenager Greg Laurie was baptized after a bunch of “Jesus freaks” introduced him to the Savior. The lost kid whose mom had been divorced seven times finally felt part of a family.
Laurie, now pastor of a megachurch and author of Jesus Revolution, says the Millennial generation is ripe for an-other major faith movement. During a time of division and unrest that mirrors the late ‘60’s, people are long-ing for what’s “real” and relational, he writes.
Our “weary, chaotic, selfie-saturated culture” needs “a big, ravishing, tran-scendent, and transformational vision of who God really is,” adds Laurie. “That’s what happened fifty-five years ago. It can happen again today.”
