The Jesus Movement

I remember an amazing thing that happened in the mid 1960's. It was the Jesus movement. It sort of popped out of the hippie movement, which had begun earlier. I think it was a genuine move to the Holy Spirit, but had little guidance and never really became a true work of the Lord. Many people were attracted to it because of the love and peace lifestyle already in the hippie movement, the emphasis on not being materialistic and they just thought Jesus was cool: with the sandals and long hair. (they really didn't get it!) They understood nothing about really being a disciple of the Lord or that he requires us to crucify the flesh and die to self! It was just sort of a cool thing to do: Dress "down", talk softly(as if you're holy), carry your bible, don't do drugs (not always the case), ok to still like rock and roll, and be non- materialistic.
I remember large groups of Jesus people who actually looked the part of how first century Christians may have looked! It was really pretty amazing; to bad it was really a work of man and didn't really have what is took to continue. Sort of a "pop culture" thing or a fad. Perhaps this helped birth the true charismatic movement; I don't know. I think some of us involved in the Jesus movement became Charismatics. I fact I now this happened. So then, we could say that God used this movement to help begin the Charismatic renewal. That's a blessing!