Explo '72
explo evangelistic conference sponsored campus crusade christ planned directed paul eshleman explo called visible event jesus movement came associated even though primary attendee directly involved movement held various location dallas texas june june nightly gathering cotton bowl goal gather high school college student together train personal evangelism vision toward world evangelism encourage attendee seek form christian service career attendance daytime conference estimated white background fewer black attendee international representation country middle class high school college student daily schedule included evangelism class seminar daytime handson exercise afternoon nightly event cotton bowl feature band well known preacher pro player various sporting team billy graham spoke six occasion event including final event public eighthourlong christian music festival saturday june dubbed christian woodstock event drew estimated attendance newsweek described crowd militant christian featured artist love song larry norman randy matthew archer andrae crouch disciple child day johnny cash kris kristofferson festival held huge open swath land north downtown dallas cleared construction woodall rodgers freeway excavation highway linking interstate u would forever obliterate festival site portion event recorded released album jesus sound explosion included album performance artist diverse johnny cash andrae crouch disciple willa dorsey speer family armageddon experience many conservative christian group critical explo ecumenical involvement protestant roman catholic ministry use rock music event attracted jesus movement fringe group including child god christian world liberation front longterm impact explo difficult measure obvious lasting effect influence jesus music would later commonly called contemporary christian music least one critic credit event spawning entire christian music industry david hill scott writing may edition christianity today documented effect explo pope john paul ii cardinal poland future pope heavily influenced toward evangelistic effort joe losiak polish american student attended explo introduced concept roman catholic official poland excerpt various magazine commenting event love song remembrance event extended resource calomeni joe sandy stubblefield june marching exlpo christian life – issn hill bob august nation beginning dallas christian life – issn photo feature explo christian life august issn