'Jesus Revolution': The True Story Behind the Faith-Based Surprise Hit
The Big Picture Jesus Revolution, the surprise indie box office hit, tells the story of the real-life “Jesus freak” movement through the eyes of youth minister Greg Laurie . The Jesus movement of the late 1960s and 1970s was primarily based in California. It essentially tried to blend some of the beliefs and practices of the hippie counterculture with Evangelicalism. This blend led to some unsurprising conflicts .
The Jesus movement is also credited with launching and popularizing the Christian rock music industry. The nascent genre simply added Christian-themed lyrics to a popular sound, thus making religion more appealing to a generation of youths that found Gospel music to be too old-fashioned. Eventually, Frisbee’s Shiloh Youth Revival Centers would peter out of existence in the late 1980s, along with the rest of the Jesus movement. Frisbee would tragically die of AIDS in 1993, at the age of 43.
The film also accurately portrays Greg Laurie’s introduction to Frisbee. Laurie first heard Frisbee speak on a high school campus in California. This sparked Laurie’s conversion to Christianity, and he soon began attending Chuck Smith’s Calvary Chapel. In 1973, Laurie founded the Harvest Christian Fellowship, a megachurch that still exists today and counts around 15,000 people as its members.
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