The phrase/idiom "to have a come to Jesus meeting"

[DynamoKev]

Prompted by something else.

www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=come+to+jesus&r=f

I had never heard this phrase, but others were dismissively asserting that it's commonly understood - so unscientific survey time -

YABU - I have heard this/understand it/use it
YANBU - I have not heard thsi before

Expressions in the Urban Dictionary don’t necessarily make sense. I think that's the point. “My bad” comes to mind.

@LetItGoGo

Is it a football boot throwing occasion?

Huh?!

I have never heard it before.

@Janegrey333

I think it’s sacrilegious to people who are Christians. I can’t imagine other faiths accepting that usage.

If their faith was being mocked, I mean.

Upthread, I was agreeing with everything I quoted except "It's disrespectful to Christians" (I don't know and the only people I've ever heard use it are/were Christians) and "for Peter sake" (unless they mean Peter from the bible, but I still don't know if it is).

I've heard an elderly christian woman say Gosh!, Golly!, Crikey!, etc are disrespectful words because they were gotten from the words 'God' and 'Christ' but she was talking to fellow Christians who use those words, not everybody else. She was telling them off for saying such things which are clearly people trying not to swear, she said.

I know it as 'meet Jesus', as in, 'that child needs to meet Jesus and learn some manners' - that is, discover that they are not the centre of the universe. I don't use it, find it a bit American (though have plenty of other Americanisms in my daily speech - 'step on the gas' being one).

More familiar with a 'come to Jesus moment' but yes, i would know what it means. I know a lot of management consultants though.

God I feel obtuse, I still don't understand what it means!

Is it essentially a very serious moment? Or is it life changing? Or is it a near death experience?

Oh lord

This elderly christian woman incident was here in the UK but everything else I've heard has been from Americans, including "You need Jesus" or "He/She needs Jesus" to say someone needs to sort their life out or change their ways.

I've not heard of it. If someone suddenly changed their minds on something significant, I might say they "had an epiphany". This sounds a bit like it incorporates some form of persuasion... A forced epiphany!

I've never heard the expression. I read the title in active and, along with the reference to co-dependent (dependent would have been a more appropriate word in my opinion), assumed that it was about addiction and the OP was thinking that religion might help.

The football boot throwing allegedly, possibly occured when a manager was angry with a player.

It's the sort of vague reference my family of football fans would recognise.

Addiction analogy might explain it.

Yes, but come to jesus moment, rather than meeting.

Seems to be more commonplace in America.

I've come across it a couple of times... Only ever on here!

I think it's more frequently moment, not meeting.

A moment when you 'lay it all down', surrender, realise you've messed up, pivot to transcendent change.

That would be a really serious meeting where people are going to be either held accountable or make themselves accountable to a boss who will be welcoming or judgemental but in either case formidable and things won't be the same afterwards.

Never heard of it.
It does rather sound like a phrase for utter wankers to use.

I've heard it a bit on here, but never in real life. I looked it up the first time I came across it here (a year or so ago?), having never seen it before. It seems to be slowly becoming one of the MN phrases (like the description of mood 'stabby', 'get to the far side of fuck [...]', 'clutches pearls', etc.) that go in and out of vogue.

I haven't heard it before as an idiom. I am a Christian and, like pp upthread find it offensive (as well as exclamations of God!; JC! and the like, which make me wince and recoil). I wish people wouldn't. JC was never heard as an expletive in public, at least, until about 1970 from my experience.

@user234987653

Never heard of it. It does rather sound like a phrase for utter wankers to use.

Had this image of you dusting your shoulder after you wrote that. Must have felt good, didn't it?

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Never heard it until I went to work for Americans. My American boss uses it all the time. He's Jewish and his wife is Christian, they don't seem to think anything of it.

Disrespectful