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'''Living Word Fellowship''' (LWF) was a [[millenarian]] [[Pentecostal]] [[Christian]] group based in the [[San Francisco Bay area]], founded in 1970 by Bobbi Morris. It encouraged its members to "Get high on [[Jesus]]." Most of its members were young adults who had been involved in the [[counterculture of the 1960s]] and had used [[marijuana]] and [[psychedelic drug]]s, and about one-third of them had participated in radical political protests. In LWF, they replaced their counterculture lifestyles with a culture characterized by [[Moral absolutism|moral authoritarianism]] and Pentecostal worship practices such as [[speaking in tongues]].<ref>Tipton, Steven M. (1982) ''Getting Saved From the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change'', [[University of California Press]], Berkeley, California, {{ISBN|0-520-03868-1}}. pp. 1–94.</ref><br />
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In the 1982 book ''Getting Saved From the Sixties: Moral Meaning in Conversion and Cultural Change'', Steven Tipton, a [[sociologist]] of [[religion]], profiled LWF, a [[Zen Buddhist]] meditation center and [[Werner Erhard]]'s [[Erhard Seminars Training|est]] as representing three different styles of response to the experience of cultural change in the 1960s.<ref>Warner, R. Steven (1984) "Making Sense of the Sixties" (book review). ''American Journal of Sociology'' Vol. 89, No. 5, Mar., 1984.</ref><br />
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* Stephen J. Hunt (2008). "[http://www.glopent.net/pentecostudies/online-back-issues/2008-vol-7/no-1-spring/hunt-2008 Were the Jesus People Pentecostals? A Review of the Evidence]". ''PentecoStudies'' vol. 7, no. 1, 2008, p. 1–33. {{ISSN|2041-3599}}<br />
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