>> Kayleigh: PASTOR GREG
LAURIE WENT FROM BEING A YOUNG
HIPPIE FROM A DYSFUNCTIONAL
FAMILY IN THE 1970s TO
EMBRACING AND GIVING HIS LIFE TO
CHRIST FOR IT HE FOUND HIMSELF
AMONG MANY OTHER YOUNG HIPPIES
THAT WE’RE DOING THE SAME THING.
HE ULTIMATELY DECIDED TO FOLLOW
THE TEACHINGS OF PASTOR CHUCK
SMITH AND PREACHER LONNIE FRISBY
WHO LATER BAPTIZED HIM.
>> I BAPTIZED YOU IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON AND
THE FATHER, AND OF THE SON AND
OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AMEN.
>> BEAUTIFUL.
IT GIVES ME CHILLS.
NOW HE AND A STORY ARE THE
BRAND-NEW SUBJECT OF A MOVIE
THAT IS A HIT MOVIE CALLED THE
JESUS REVOLUTION.
PASTOR GREG LAURIE JOINS US NOW.
THIS IS JUST IT’S ON AMAZON,
IT’S THE NUMBER ONE, IT’S
FEEDING TOP GUN.
IT’S INCREDIBLE TO WATCH THAT
BAPTISM SEEN.
WHAT MAKES IT SO POWERFUL?
>> I THINK BECAUSE IT’S A REAL
STORY, IT WASN’T A BIG BUDGET
FILM LIKE SOME OF THESE OTHER
FILMS LIKE AVATAR OR TOP GUN OR
WHATEVER, BUT IT RESONATES WITH
PEOPLE BECAUSE IT’S A MESSAGE OF
HOPE AND IT’S A TRUE STORY OF A
TIME IN AMERICAN HISTORY WHEN IT
LOOKED LIKE CULTURE WAS
COLLAPSING AND PEOPLE WERE JUST
TURNING AWAY FROM GOD AND
TURNING AWAY FROM EVERYTHING AND
MANY THOUGHT IT WAS PERHAPS THE
DEMISE OF OUR COUNTRY.
PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT SEXUAL
REVOLUTION, THEY WERE TALKING
ABOUT A POLITICAL REVOLUTION AND
GOD SAID JESUS REVOLUTION.
IT WAS TIME MAGAZINE THAT COINED
THAT PHRASE IN AND MANY WAYS IT
WAS A REVOLUTION THAT CHANGED
THE DIRECTORY AND TRAJECTORY OF
AMERICA.
>> WE HAVE THAT TIME MAGAZINE
COVER AND THIS IS THE ONE FROM
1973, BUT THERE WAS ONE BEFORE THAT THAT YOU TOLD ME ABOUT, LET
THAT THAT YOU TOLD ME ABOUT, LET
ME KNOW ABOUT THAT TIME COVER.
>> THIS WAS TIME IN AMERICAN
HISTORY WHERE WE REMOVED PRAYER
OUT OF SCHOOLS, AND IT’S
INTERESTING THAT LITERALLY THREE
YEARS LATER TIME MAGAZINE HAS A
COVER STORY WITH THE OMINOUS
WORDS IS GOD DEAD AND THEN FOUR
YEARS AFTER THAT, THIS
PSYCHEDELIC IMAGE OF JESUS AND
IT SAYS JESUS REVELATION SHOW IT
SHOWS HOW BLEAK THINGS WERE AND
IT SHOWS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A
SPIRITUAL AWAKENING TAKES PLACE
IN AMERICA.
I WANT TO SEE THAT GENERATION Z
IS VERY INTERESTED IN SPIRITUAL
THINGS I JUST READ AN ARTICLE
RECENTLY THAT SAID THAT OVER 50
PERCENT ARE VERY INTERESTED
IN JESUS AND KNOWING MORE ABOUT
JESUS.
THIS WAS NOT A RELIGIOUS WEB
REVOLUTION, IT WAS JESUS
REVOLUTION WHERE PEOPLE WERE
TURNING TO GOD AND HAVING AN
ENCOUNTER WITH HIM.
THAT’S WHAT HAPPENED TO ME.
I WAS GOING TO WRONG WAY FAST,
BUT MY LIFE WAS TURNED AROUND
BECAUSE OF RELATIONSHIP WITH
JESUS CHRIST AND HE STILL IN THE
LIFE-CHANGING BUSINESS.
>> I HAD THEIR TREMENDOUS HONOR
OF HAVING HONOR DINNER WITH YOU
AND YOUR BEAUTIFUL WIFE, KATHY.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT STOOD OUT
TO ME IS YOU’VE MET PEOPLE WHERE
THEY WERE, AND THEY JESUS
REVOLUTION, THE CHURCH CAME TO
THE PEOPLE, WASHING THEIR FEET
UP THE HIPPIES AND WELCOMING
THEM THE WAY THAT JESUS WOULD
HAVE DONE PERJURE WITH US WHY
THAT IS SO IMPORTANT.
>> I THINK THE CHURCH HAS AN
OPPORTUNITY RIGHT NOW IN CULTURE
IN OUR JOB IS TO BRING HOPE, OUR
JOB IS TO BRING HOPE, OUR JOB IS
TO BRING PEOPLE TO THE LORD.
WE HAVE THE BIG EVENT WERE DOING
AT THE HONDA CENTER IN ANAHEIM
THAT I WANTED TO CALL THE
HARVESTER, WE’VE BEEN DOING IT
FOR 30 YEARS OVER THE YEARS I’VE
BEEN ABLE TO SPEAK IN PERSON TO
500,000 PEOPLE AND WE HAVE SEEN
THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS, 500,000
MAKING A PROFESSION OF FAITH IN
WE KEEP PREACHING TO THE NEXT
GENERATION BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE
SEARCHING FOR ANSWERS TODAY IN
OUR CULTURE.
>> THAT IS SO TRUE AND ONE THING
YOU SAID TO ME, YOU ARE