"come-to-Jesus meeting"

[Mullins, Bill]

ProQuest Hist Newspapers has a 12/2000 NYT example.

Factiva has numerous examples, the earliest being:

FATAL NEGLECT Terri Rahn / To keep her kids, she tries to end patterns
of past
Paul McEnroe;
23 July 1989 p. 01A
"Crossing her means facing her wrath in what she calls a "Come to Jesus"
meeting. "



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> "Fox News Live" about 90 minutes ago:
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> "Basically it is a come-to-Jesus meeting between John Evander
> Couey and authorities to see whether he knows anything about
> the disappearance of Jessica Lee Lunsford."
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> New to me, but many earlier exx. on the Net.
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