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Something is bringing thousands of runaways, dope users, and rebels to their knees to acknowledge Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and ultimately to change their lives. This book is the story of the Jesus movement, with some particulars about a few of the Jesus people, their conflicts with their families, their teachers, their parole officers, and most of all with themselves; Their long journey through drugs and illicit sex; And finally, their discovery of Jesus who changed the pattern of their lives. - Preface. There's only one way to say it. The Jesus People are coming! If they haven't come to your town, hang on, they'll be there. Before they are through, metropolis and hamlet alike will have witnessed what Look magazine has called "a massive, fundamentalist, Christ-as-personal-Savior revival," or a fresh burst of old-time, Bible-toting, foot-stamping, witness-giving religion. - Epilogue. The Jesus People Are Coming by Pat King is written from a Seattle vantage point. It focuses on the work of Linda Meissner, who came in the summer of 1968. (The book was written before she and many of her followers joined the Children of God.) The conversion of a hippie who was a friend of the author climaxes the first part of the book, which is then followed by several dramatic testimonies. The major problem historically with the book is the assumption that the Jesus people are all extensions of Pentecostalism with the gift of tongues as their ID card. This is simply not so. In wide areas of the Jesus movement no special point is made of tongues. The movement is bigger than any one theological point or denomination. - Christianity Today, Book Briefs section, Jan 7, 1972.