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. Only after surviving a horrific car accident was I willing to go with my parents to their to come-to-Jesus meeting. I always get a lot out of the homily when I attend a come-to-Jesus meeting.

2. Any meeting in which a frank, often unpleasant, conversation is held so as to bring to light 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. A: "He seems to be focusing more on his studies these days." B: "Yes, well, we had come-to-Jesus meeting last semester and told him we were going to stop paying his tuition unless he started applying himself."