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Pop Culture: Elegy for a Jesus Freak

"These are the ultimate Jesus Freaks—the people who are willing to die for their faith."—Toby McKeehen of dc Talk

by Wendy Murray Zoba | posted 12/06/1999 12:00AM

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When I was 16 and a new Christian, my Jesus Freak-ness expressed itself in trappings from the hippie culture—parting my stringy hair in the middle and getting "high on Jesus." I boldly went into shopping malls and opened little yellow booklets to complete strangers, introducing them to "God's wonderful plan for your life."

"At youth group, we're really starting to understand the urgency of telling people they have to decide—that they can't sit on the fence," my son Ben says. "With Columbine and [Wedgwood], we realize we might not be here tomorrow—or they might not be. We better say what we've got to say now."

Which is why he told me that day what song he wanted played at his memorial. It is why I am asking myself if I am still a Jesus Freak.

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