Wired to Worship: A 7-Day Devotional Inspired by the Jesus Music Film and BookSample

The Weak Things and the Jesus Movement

They were the unlikeliest source of a spiritual movement—Countercultural, rebellious, disillusioned by a tragic war and corrupted political leadership, resistant to authority. Caught up in the sex, drugs, and rock and roll of the ’60s and ’70s, many found themselves at a spiritual dead end. When an unconventional church in California accepted these seekers, a movement shook up the established church. They rejected the empty ideas of the countercultural and embraced the fresh grace of the gospel of Christ. 

Paul reminded the Corinthian church of the often surprising ways God moves in history, the places the Spirit blows that confound the experts and stun observers. This was the case with the Jesus movement. Unshaved and unkempt, refugees from the upside-down and turbulent societal revolutions, few saw this ragtag group as the next great place for spiritual revival. And yet it is here where God birthed something new. 

Today it is easy for us to lament what we see around us: division, spiritual disunity, a global pandemic, racial tension, and economic upheaval. If we are not careful, cynicism can grow encrusted around our hearts. But we should ask ourselves, what might God be birthing new at this moment? 

He might be birthing it in the unlikeliest of places, with the unlikeliest of people, in the unlikeliest of moments. We often look to the stars, celebrities, and powerful but instead should look among the messy and vulnerable, the weak and the weary. God does his best work among people of whom the world is not worthy.