As Youth, Eschatology Sponteneity , Vigor, Freshness
N~W. Ssrvi~aof the Southern Imptias Cnnvsncion 460Nashv~lle, James TennesseeRobertson 37219Parkway Telephone (615) 244-2355 W. C, fields, Director produced by Baptist Prers Jim Newton, Assistant Director I - 7-. F 3 (Third in a Series) , r 1"I,. .-i, [!AY :-, i<" * t f -r Baptism of the Spirit '6 HiSTO;(?(,,',L L -1, c,+~,%."*.~a +,- .i Could Tear It Asunder by the Baptist Press . \ h+ The movement is Jesus. Its theme is love, The credit is almost always given, not to some charismatic leader, but to the Holy Spirit. From coast to coast, as a team of reporters for Home Missions and Baptist Press question- ed participants in the spiritual phenomenon, the youth unhesiatingly credited every good action to the Holy Spirit. The manifestations of their belief varied from the jabber of speaking in tongues and raised hands ans swaying bodies, to a quiet movement through the dry plains of nearly dead churches. Some youthful Christians who are "turned on to jesus" reject, however, the emphasis in speaking in tongues among other youth groups, Ironically, right here might come the theological battles of the movement, both over tongues, or "the baptism of the Spirit" as it is usually called, and over free expression of one's faith. Because of differing views on "~!cesolalia" (another name for speaking in tongued, some youth groups denied they were a part of the "Jesus movement, " as the media have labeled this national spiritual phenomenon. "No, we're not part of it, " one person wodd say. But another, referring to the first individual's group, would counter: "Yeah, they're in the movement', but we're really not part of the Jesus freaks.
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