Results: The Rise of "Jesus People"... In Name, If Not Numbers?

April 2023 saw the release of the movie Jesus Revolution. The film depicts the conversion of Greg Laurie, now a pastor, as it occurred amid the wave of hippies in the late 1960's-early '70's in Southern California becoming Christian, specifically at & through Costa Mesa, CA's Calvary Chapel. Though in previous surveys and comments of mine I've called such believers Jesus hippies, they were at the time of this movement being active commonly called Jesus people. Before reading this question, heard you ever heard of Christian hippies from that era being called Jesus people?

Pop/country singer Anne Wilson's sings of "join(ing) the Jesus people" in her current radio hit, "Living Water." Had I not later discovered she recorded the song for the Jesus Revolution soundtrack, I'd have merely thought she was tunefully contemporizing a historic term. Since it's a bit less multisyllabic than the still seemingly popular "Christ followers" or "Jesus followers" as a synonym for "Christians" as a plural noun, I still like "Jesus people" as a descriptor, regardless its past associations. You?

I don't know when he recorded it relative to Wilson's song or the movie mentioned earlier, but country singer-songwriter/radio host' Randy Finchum's current single is entitled "Jesus People." I've questions about Finchum's theology (Jesus does the saving, not His people!, yes?), or at least his grammar, but enjoy his use of a minor key arrangement to deliver a serious message, though with a bouncy groove adjacent to jazz. Are you attracted to music in minor keys?

I could be wrong, but I can see "Jesus people" coming back into vogue as a group name for biblically faithful folk; especially as leftist and liberal commentators and "news"-casters denigrate, disparage and demonize so-called Christian nationalism, a desire among some for at least one alternative to the C-word in question may be on the rise. If so, it would parallel those converted hippies' desire to identify more with Jesus Christ than the name of the faith that arose from Him. Does this theory make sense to you?