![]() Movieguide® previously reported on the upcoming movie, THE JESUS REVOLUTION: “In the church, restoration, revival, revolution for us is getting back to God’s original template of the early church that turned their world upside down.” “What a difference a few years make and what a difference a spiritual awakening means and that’s what happened, God sent this awakening, this revival. There was a Time Magazine cover in the late 60s, it was a Black cover with red letters with an ominous statement, ‘Is God Dead?’ A few years later that cover comes out, ‘Jesus Revolution,’” Laurie continued. “When things are really dark, God sends a spiritual awakening. Government, young people have all them answers. “Back in the late 60s there was a lot of talk of revolution, The Beatles even had a song ‘Revolution,’ and the idea was you know overthrow the We called it the Jesus movement and I think actually Time Magazine understood something even we didn’t understand, this was a revolution,” Laurie said. “Time Magazine dubbed it the ‘Jesus Revolution’ back in the day. The Erwin brothers upcoming biopic, THE JESUS REVOLUTION, is based on Laurie’s miraculous conversion and the 1970 spiritual movement in California. “I don’t even remember getting up and walking there, just boom, I was there and I prayed this prayer and I asked Christ to come into my life and that was in 1970 and that was the day that my life changed radically.” Laurie soon found himself on stage, accepting Christ into his heart. “It was one statement that jumped out at me, when he said Jesus said, ‘You’re for me or against me.’” “This new thought occurred to me: ‘What if they’re right and what if it’s all true and what if you can have a relationship with God?’ I’m sort of contemplating this and this guy named Lonnie Frisbee, this hippie evangelist stands up and he begins to speak and he really got my attention,” Laurie said. But soon he was hanging on the words that pastor Lonnie Frisbee spoke. At first, Laurie listened from a distance. ![]() Laurie said that one day, he decided to listen to one of their on-campus meetings. “I was very cynical because of the life I’d lived but yet I wanted something more and I looked at them I, thought these people are crazy, but the problem was I knew a couple of them and I used to party with them and I’d seen the change that had happened in their life so I couldn’t dismiss them.” “I realized now it wasn’t that she was the most beautiful girl I’d ever seen but I saw Jesus in her and it was like a light to me,” he added. I went, ‘Oh no.’ I literally thought, ‘What a waste of a perfectly cute girl.’” “I wanted to meet her and as I was waiting for a break in the conversation she had a textbook for class and a notebook then I saw she had one of those black books with gold pages and ribbons. ![]() “I’m walking across the campus and I see this girl that’s kind of attractive and a friend of mine was talking to her and I thought I’d walk over and talk to them,” he recalled. Little did Laurie know, God had a plan to rescue him from his hopeless life amid what the New York Times had labeled, a “Jesus Revolution.” ![]() “I said to them, ‘The last thing you’ll ever see is Greg Laurie becoming a Jesus Freak… famous last words,” he said. Laurie said that his group of friends at Corona Del Mar High School warned him that the students at his new school, Harbor High School were “Jesus freaks.” Shortly after his traumatic experience with drugs, he switched high schools. “I thought, ‘I don’t want to do drugs anymore, I hate this, I hate this life I’ve chosen.’” “I looked in the mirror and I saw my face melting and I saw my skull exposed and I was so scared,” he told Cameron. However, after a “bad trip” Laurie said that he went from smoking Marijuana everyday and doing LSD to quitting drugs. Laurie recalled how he sought for relief from his difficult childhood and being raised by an alcoholic mother, in drugs. The senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship, Greg Laurie, recently sat down with actor Kirk Cameron to discuss his testimony, and the “jesus revolution” of the 1960s and 70s. Greg Laurie Shares Testimony: ‘My Life Changed Radically’ Published: DecemPhoto from Pastor Greg Laurie’s Instagram
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