 Good afternoon everybody and welcome to Unfiltered. Pastor David, welcome. How are you doing John? We just came off a great weekend. We had our men's conference, we had Sunday services and looking forward to our Wednesday night services and then it's just amazing to see the work of the Spirit here at work at our church and there's just amazing things going on from all the different ministries and so we're coming off a great weekend and we have many more weekends to come but you know thinking of that pastor I started thinking about the Jesus movement and I wanted to ask you you know because something was posted recently on social media and people were beginning to identify themselves with the Jesus movement because they were around during that time and you know there's been little bits of pockets of revival and different things coming on. Is there a new Jesus movement going on? Well that's an interesting way to put it. It's interesting that somebody would identify with the movement because they were alive when that movement occurred. There were things related to that that I think that would actually be markers of something that God was doing that had become unique. So if somebody got saved we'll say at a Baptist church or whatever you know whatever fellowship it may be you know and it was during the era of what was called the Jesus movement then that's simply revealing the fact that God's Holy Spirit was moving everywhere which is what the Jesus movement actually is you know my own pastor Chuck had said that Jesus never stopped moving and so that's a fact and so you know on one hand there was a special thing that occurred. Some are now calling it the Jesus revolution but the way I have always looked at it is it was a Jesus movement. It was a revolution. There was Jesus people. There were Jesus freaks. Jesus music. It was all about Jesus and so from that perspective the Jesus movement has never stopped whether somebody got saved in a Baptist church or a Methodist church or whatever fellowship in AG. Jesus was moving but on the other hand as an example I was part of the hippie kind of culture that was that was what I identified with and would have considered myself and still to this day would consider myself that. So I was a hippie kind of kid but if I as a hippie kid said that you know I identify with Woodstock because they played music that I liked I probably would be kind of exaggerating. I could say I liked the different groups almost every one of the groups that I'm familiar with who played at Woodstock were were groups that I listened to you know the Santana and and you name it Jen you just name it you know Jimi Hendrix and all those are those are people of my era that I liked but I could never say I was part of the Woodstock experience outside of saying I liked the music that was played at Woodstock which was in general from the east coast to west coast and everything in between so if somebody is identifying themselves as a person in the Jesus movement because they got saved during that time I'd say well there's some truth to that obviously the spirit of God was moving and that person was was saved in that time and so there was a move of the spirit and obviously as a believer in Christ you're part of that movement but if you're specifying a certain experience of some sort then if you if you weren't there you know if you weren't at one of the churches that were springing up at that time that were products of you know the spirit's movement like Calvary Chapel Coast of Mesa you may be stretching it a bit. Now does that why would and it's not answering why why is it in which on your in your feedback why would people find that important to identify themselves as I was a part of it because therefore I was born again in it or I find that interesting John I think maybe it's because we're we're living in a time when if somebody's on the stage doing some music there's going to be several people on the floor who are singing along with the musician I think they just like to be part of something and so they're identifying with something bigger than themselves I think that there's an I understand that you know I want to be known as something who is part of that why because that's something popular right now when I want to be popular along with that I just think it's an over-identification and and it's just something we have to be aware of you know I just think we have to be careful not to over identify with with a you know like I had a Calvary Chapel or this or that and so I have my preferences I'm trying to find a way to say what I'm thinking you know I got saved I was a hippie I went to Calvary Chapel that's where I got my my foundations and everything that became my ministry came out of that so I can say that but others you know we're not part of that and and yet the Holy Spirit was moving in their life too and so I just think that's that's beautiful you know and I think that's great but if somebody's saying yeah I saw the Jesus revolution and though I lived in in Iowa at the time I was a Jesus freak well maybe you were maybe you won't weren't I don't know I don't know why that would be important to you what really matters is you got saved you know and that's at the end of the day that's really that's important is can that be considered a bandwagon yeah I would I would I have a normal way of looking at it saying yeah let's let's ride the wave of what was popular and let's be popular too I feel sorry for for for someone who has that kind of need I really do I don't see the need you know if you're a believer in Jesus Christ and isn't that all that matters anyone's in Christ he's a new creation absolutely and so the Jesus movement has been going since Jesus walked the face of the earth the birth of the church by the spirit he never stopped moving and so but let's not pretend you know I I didn't go to Woodstock and I'm not going to pretend that I didn't I could watch the movie 15 times and speak about all the lines in it and know I remember when the rain in the mud and this and that that's because you see that kind of thing in in a film but then when you speak to somebody who says yeah do you remember sliding down the hill on those you know on that cardboard or whatever you know and and well I wasn't really there I just saw those things in film it kind of makes you into what well was called a poser you know and we we don't need to be that we're in Christ and that's that's all that matters amen well pastor thank you for sharing because I my hope is that people don't over identify themselves with something that they weren't truly a part of it and think think and that's their identity in Christ when it's no movement it's Jesus Christ Himself it's always Jesus John and and we just happen to have a tradition that came out of of something that has been referred to as the movement but they were great works of God before and I pray that God does new fresh things in the future amen you know and so let's be part of the movement of Jesus period amen well pastor David thank you so much for sharing thank you guys for tuning in we do have services tomorrow uh Wednesday evening at 7 p.m. and pastor you're taking us through Romans chapter 7 chapter 7 we look forward to having that it's been a a good study and a great opportunity to invite your friends and family to come out and join us then we have our services on uh Saturday excuse me Sunday at 8 30 and 10 45 look forward to having you guys come and join us registration for Israel the link is up now at our website you can go there and register for 2024 trip it's going to be great I'm looking forward to it already it's going to be fun thank you guys again for tuning in pastor thank you again so much God bless you guys we love you