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  Jesus Movement - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Jesus Movement was the Christian component of the Hippie Movement, composed of the Jesus People or Jesus Freaks.
Jesus People had a strong belief in the miraculous, signs and wonders, healing, demonic possession and exorcism, and a rejection of the excluded middle.
The Jesus People USA, JPUSA, who are a ministry/commune on the North Side of Chicago, has been a source of much underground in the Christian world, releasing much of it on their GRRR Records.
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 Potentials: Commune vs. Community - www.ezboard.com
USA the location of the group used years ago to determine between Jesus People Europe and so forth and so on.
Being to able to bless people greatly either those in service for the greater good or to those people such as the homeless women and children, the street people and the like and others who have been affected by various aspects and sub-ministries the commune has been able to offer.
In the case of the Jesus People, except for an ill-attempt at reconciliation in 1993 there has been not one attempt at a public reconciliation or apology, but we are past this phase as clearly time has told us that the Jpusa leadership really wants no part of a reconciliation.
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 christianhousing.org - Find a Christian to room with, rent from, or rent to.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Jesus People also tended not to engage in long-range planning or social action as a result of apocalyptic expectations, causing some critics to suggest that persons involved were often shirking social responsibilities.
Most Jesus People I have met are aware that much of the Bible is ambiguous and requires interpretation, that context is crucial to understanding passages, that the Bible does not contain all answers (although it does contain all necessary answers), and that careful study of the Bible and commentaries is necessary for full understanding.
Most people appear to arrive for a visit (if from out of town, as between half and two-thirds of the members are), go home, and then write to the commune expressing a desire to commit to the community for a period of anywhere from a few months to, preferably, a year.
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 Jesus People USA: Exodus from commune ignites battle for souls - News about religious cults and sects
Much of it was poured into Jesus People's highly respected charities, the rest covered living expenses for the group's 500 members, and all the leaders lived in the same poverty as everyone else.
Religious scholars and former members, citing the number of former Jesus People members who fail to thrive in the outside world, contend that the commune does more harm than good by conditioning its followers to depend on someone else to pay their bills, assign their employment and housing, be their conduit to God.
Because Jesus People USA traditionally has appealed to people who are lost, addicted or simply unable to find a sense of purpose for their lives, Taylor says, it should be no surprise that some members leave just as disillusioned as when they joined.
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 Jesus People USA - Meet our Family
Jesus People USA-Full Gospel Ministries (JPUSA-FGM) is an evangelical Christian community based in Chicago, Illinois.
Anyone wanting to join the community must be at least eighteen years old and profess a born-again experience with Jesus Christ, as well as a continuing personal relationship with Jesus as Lord of his or her life.
Every member is assigned a room in one of the JPUSA buildings; single people share a room "dormitory-style" with other singles of their own sex, while married couples of course have a private room.
www.jpusa.org /covenant.html   (3087 words)

  
 jesus people usa information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jesus People USA is a Christian community of about 500...
Jesus People USA is a Christian community of about 450 people, located in a poor neighborhood in Chicago called Uptown.
Jesus People USA - the community I served with for 24...
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 jesus people usa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jesus People USA - Jesus People USA is a Christian community of about 450 people, located in a poor
Jesus People USA Visitor Comments - "I am a teenager that grew up at Jesus People USA (JPUSA) in Chicago.
Jesus People USA - Jesus People USA has gone from the young Jesus Freaks of the 70's on a travelling
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The following information is based on an interview with Jesus People USA member Lyda Jackson.
Jackson is the volunteer coordinator at Jesus People USA.
Demographics: Jesus People USA Evangelical Covenant Church, also known as JPUSA, has approximately 500 members, 450 of whom live communally.
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 Jesus People USA
Jesus People USA is a Christian community in Chicago.
We began as an independent ministry in 1972, and in 1989 we joined the Chicago-based Evangelical Covenant Church.
We have been privileged to function as a resource to the church, a haven for people in need, a learning experience for many whose journey has taken them in our doors and out to serve elsewhere.
www.jpusa.org   (195 words)

  
 Poynter Online - God, Ethics, and Journalism
When it is met poorly -- and that too often is the case -- the result is exactly the opposite: an inaccurate, unbalanced, unfair story that is disrespectful to followers of the faith involved and insulting to the intelligence and fairness of even neutral observers.
Significantly, though, the photojournalist assigned to the Jesus People story, Alex Garcia, is. This became important during the reporting of the story.
As Scharnberg got into the story, however, the music ministry receded in importance and two other aspects of Jesus People USA came to the fore: its communal nature and the behavior of the group's leaders in disciplining members and administering the organization's finances.
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Jesus People USA: since 1971, a Christian community on the North Side of Chicago, home of Resurrection Band, Cornerstone magazine and Cornerstone Festival.
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 Controversial Groups --- Jesus People to Wicca
The Jesus People USA community has responded by opening their community to even greater public scrutiny, including making public the correspondence dealing with the allegations; the community also dedicated a double issue of its magazine to examining the book's claims.
Peoples Temple: Born in east central Indiana on May 13, 1931, James Warren Jones married Marceline Baldwin in 1949, moved to Indianapolis in 1951, and soon became a self-taught preacher who promoted racial integration and a veiled communist philosophy within a Pentecostal framework that emphasized faith healing.
By 1975 Peoples Temple was a formidable force in the left-liberal political surge in San Francisco, and the Temple began to reap political rewards.
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 Jesus People USA - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jesus People USA is a Christian intentional community in Uptown, on the North Side of Chicago, Illinois.
It was founded in 1973 out of the Jesus Movement, and is one of the few remaining communes from that movement.
This page was last modified 22:35, 16 June 2005.
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 Cornerstone Florida 2005 :: Artist Bios   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Jesus People USA community has been cranking out edgy Jesus Music for thirty years now.
As the group celebrates thirty years of intentional community living, a feat not all that common to be sure, it is fitting that a project like Glenn Kaiser and Friends' No Greater Love is the latest release from their own Grrr Records label.
Though folk-guitars, harmonic vocals and tambourines were the stock-in-trade of most Jesus People in the early seventies, the recorded output of JPUSA always favored overheated Marshall amps and chipped glass vocal strains.
www.cornerstoneflorida.com /reviews.cfm?ID=17   (425 words)

  
 Jesus People USA :: Hallelujah Palooza
This is the 21st year that the Jesus People USA, a Christian commune and ministry in Chicago, has presented the event.
Music is central to the Jesus People's practices; Cornerstone's director, John Herrin, played drums for a pioneering Christian rock group called the Resurrection Band.
After warning the crowd he'd have to tell his wife about the airborne underwear, he tells the crowd that their vision of Jesus as a "rugged individualist" is a 20th-century conception unique to America and inexorably shaped by television.
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 A Review by The Phantom Tollbooth
Last year Jesus People USA's Grrr Records packaged together these two recordings from 1988 and 1990 onto one CD to help those fans who were not fortunate enough to pick these up when they first slipped out to the dancing faithful.
The looseness is particularly evident in the vocals, and first came to my notice on the harmonies in "What Will Ye Do." Some people may actually like this loose quality to the vocal harmonies, and it is not unusual on folk recordings, but it is an area where the band has grown and developed.
Before the head-bangers moshed to reels and dirges, Jesus People USA community members Tony Knogh and Pat Peterson spent years mastering the British Isle folk sound with their friends.
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 Cornerstone Magazine - The Voice of Jesus People USA
Jesus was materially poor on earth and taught His disciples to live day by day.
On the individual level the model of authority is Jesus, the Jesus who washed the feet of Peter, His disciple, the Shepherd who gave His life in exchange for that of the flock.
This is Jesus' prayer for us, that we may be one even as He and His Father are one.
www.cornerstonemag.com /features/iss123/mof2002.htm   (3389 words)

  
 Weblog: Chicago Tribune Investigates Jesus People USA - Christianity Today Magazine
Instead, the special report on Jesus People USA (JPUSA) is an awful strange read for folks familiar with the story.
"Jesus People USA, a controversial Chicago-based sect … stands as one of the last surviving religious communes of an American generation," reports Kirsten Scharnberg.
Some splintered spiritually, concluding that walking away from Jesus People USA was akin to walking away from God." But wait a second.
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 Adherents.com
As the ministry grew, a church building was purchased for Sunday services and, with fifty charter members, Jesus People Church begun.
Currently, all over the world people are experiencing the miracles of TaeUlJu through the New Age Expos held in the US and England.
The Jews for Jesus movement is very much a fringe phenomenon and has justly been condemned by all faithful Jews as trying to introduce Christianity to Jews through the back door, so to speak.
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 Jesus - Who is Jesus? Is Jesus Christ a Liar, a Lunatic or really Lord and
The First Church of Jesus Christ, Elvis which includes evidence that Elvis and Jesus are the same (for those who haven't figured it out for themselves).
Jesus' message is one of love and compassion, yet there is nothing loving or compassionate about factory farms and slaughterhouses, where billions of
The Society of Jesus was founded in 1540 by St. Ignatius Loyola, a Basque nobleman and soldier, who found God in all things.
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 The Official Glenn Kaiser Website
We beliee in the preexistence and full deity of the Lord Jesus Christ, who through the Incarnation became man without ceasing to be God, being at the same time both God and man, fully human and fully divine, in one Person.
We believe in the historic Virgin Birth of Jesus, the prophesied Messiah of the Old Testament, His sinless life, His death on the cross for our sins, His bodily resurrection from the dead, and His ascension into Heaven, according to the Scriptures.
We believe in the Second Coming of Jesus Christ, in which He will personally and visibly return from heaven to judge the living and the dead, and although no man can know the day, hour, or year, His return is imminent.
www.glennkaiser.com /content.cfm?Spiritual_ContentID=23   (230 words)

  
 THEOOZE - Articles: Viewing Article
Their claim to fame in modern pop culture may be a little festival—20,000 attendees a year little—called Cornerstone, but a week of rock 'n' roll is just another offering of service for the Jesus People USA.
The idea of people living together, lifting each other up in a combination of grace and accountability, doing works for the Lord that they never could have done without the help of one another, that idea still thrills me.
Some people definitely could benefit from living in a communal environment, but others would be driven crazy by it.
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 Jesus People USA
I still support the ministry of JPUSA and the people who run it, and I appreciate the positive input they have had in my life, career, and personal development.
on JPUSA ("Jesus People USA: An Examination of an Urban, Communitarian Religious Group").
Though I know the people behind these pages as personal friends of many years, I cannot in good conscience promote this means of self-expression.
www.student.northpark.edu /pemente/jpusa.htm   (1285 words)

  
 Jamsline Biography: Glenn Kaiser   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Jesus Movement hit the Midwest soon after, and by autumn of 1971, a local community of these young and radical Bible-toting believers had yet another in their number.
Most Sunday mornings, visitors at Jesus People USA Covenant Church hear a song or two they can only hear in that congregation, unless they attend the annual Cornerstone Festival, another of JPUSA's outreaches where Glenn can often be heard leading worship.
Covenant is a VERY cool community of people serving the poor and the culturally disenfranchised in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood and beyond.
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 Jesus
Ex-Masons for Jesus - Men leave the Masonic Lodge - Freemasonry is incompatible with Christianity.
Jesus Radicals is a source of discipleship for the church at large.
baptize converts in the name of Jesus, not in the name of the Father, Son, acknowledged Jesus as the Messiah will be saved in the end times.
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 Jesus People USA -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Jesus People USA -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
It was founded in 1973 out of the (Click link for more info and facts about Jesus Movement) Jesus Movement, and is one of the few remaining communes from that movement.
The community organizes the annual (Click link for more info and facts about Cornerstone Festival) Cornerstone Festival.
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 usa people and more   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
As I logged on to Unlimited, Lillian was smiling and greeting the fans before singing the National Anthem.
After the singing, the cheers, and standard 'USA, USA' chant, the ECW music started and the crowd cheered.
Jesus People USA: since 1971, a Christian community on the North Side of Chicago, home of Resurrection Band, Cornerstone magazine and Cornerstone...
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 CT Classic: Jesus' People - Christianity Today magazine - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
The busload of young people turned out to be the Jesus People Traveling Team, USA, a group of countercultural communal Christians traveling the country by bus, doing street witnessing, holding concerts at churches with their Jesus rock group, Resurrection Band, and passing out copies of Cornerstone, a hip evangelistic tabloid.
Many on the "Jesus bus" had relatives in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois, Cameron recalls, so they drove north to visit over Christmas 1972, expecting to return to their work in Gainesville after the holidays.
Some of the members from the Jesus People of Milwaukee days, Trott recalls, came out of their experience "shell-shocked" and bruised.
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