Hijacked by Jesusنموونە

The Jesus Movement

To become part of the Jesus movement is to become “infected” by Jesus. It is all about being transformed by His Spirit from head to toe – a Jesus-hijacking in other words! By the way, a Jesus-hijacking is not about new theological ideas that you have to get into your head, or new memes. A meme? Well, broadly defined, a meme is a sticky idea that behaves exactly like a virus. Just like any deadly virus, memes move through an entire population, taking hold of each and every person it infects. Memes are contagious. But a Jesus-hijacking is not just a set of infectious ideas or new knowledge. Actually, it is about infectious people who have been touched by the story of Jesus. People who have been hijacked by His grace spread His goodness around like wildfire – let’s call them infectious grace distributors. They constantly infect other people with the right virus – grace. They are highly contagious and beautifully dangerous. They cause wonderful chaos everywhere they go. They set wildfires of mercy alight that spread from person to person, and to the rest of God’s creation. 

Infectious grace distributors are ordinary people who constantly ooze grace, beauty and kindness. They cause all kinds of change just by being present. Once they have crossed your path, nothing remains the same. Their presence has that special electrifying power to automatically move people in different directions. Grace distributors change the way others process information and how they think, act and live. Grace distributors are sticky because the story of God’s grace got stuck on them. 

Jesus spreads grace in the shape of ordinary human beings who listen to the gentle whisper of His voice and obediently follow in His footsteps. He tears down man-made barriers when people step out of their comfort zones and humble themselves before Him and others. The magnetic pull of unexpected graceful behavior from those that you don’t expect to bow before others – that’s what a grace-hijacking is all about.