come-to-Jesus meeting



come-to-Jesus meeting

1. A spiritual meeting in which participants are encouraged to repent their sins and accept Jesus Christ as their savior. I've told her that I am an avid atheist, but she still insists on me attending one of her come-to-Jesus meetings.
2. Any meeting in which a frank, often unpleasant, conversation is held so as to bring to light and/or resolve some issue at hand. Boys, we're going to have a come-to-Jesus meeting about the drugs I found in the house, and if no one tells me the truth, then you're both going to get a whooping. The boss called us in for a real come-to-Jesus meeting about our sales for this quarter.
See also: meeting

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
ÁSvaldr-Ancient Scandinavian
JoŽEYAW-zheSlovene
HildegardHIL-de-gahrt (German)German, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Ancient Germanic
SylviaSIL-vee-ə (English), SUYL-vee-ah (Finnish)English, Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Finnish, German
Shreya-Indian, Hindi, Marathi, Bengali, Gujarati
Gerda (1)GER-dah (German), KHER-dah (Dutch)German, Dutch