Lonnie Frisbee

When I read and saw the ownership of CCLI, it both made me angry.

It made me... super bummed out like I mean just and it also made me truthfully think maybe I'm looking at this wrong right like surely CCLI is not owned by Blackstone and by CSAC that I've got to be looking at that wrong so I'm just at that point reading everything I can and I end up texting a friend who is in Nashville and within kind of the the administrative industry of music and I'm like is it owned by by Blackstone he's like yeah so at that point i you know it that hurt my brain hurt my feelings i was like this is horrible um that that part i found to be really fascinating i also found the story of lonnie frisbee to be be um really sad and at the same time kind of cover not covered up but they just don't talk about it within the calvary circles um Because it's not a fun thing to talk about.

One of the main guys that you had within this movement and started it, snowballed it, walked away from it, went into living a homosexual lifestyle and died of AIDS.

It's a super sad story.

But Julie, I never knew any of this.

And what happened to Jesus Movement is, and this is public information, Lonnie Frisbee, who actually led to the explosion of Calvary Chapel and the Vineyard Movement.

You

know, he was the one who was the spark.

Mm.

And we went there to see Lonnie, who was the hippie preacher.

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Uh, if you saw the movie The Jesus Revolution-

Yeah

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Lonnie Frisbee.

And for me, it- Tommy's exactly right.

I got at my house right now is on movements What is that book about?

It's about people that God had to lead great movements of revival of people like Full Gospel Businessmen, the Jesus people with Lonnie Frisbee, and go through their life and the movements, what happened, good and bad, so we can learn from it.

So if God gives you a movement to lead, you can lead it more effectively.

So it's exciting.

And, and, and I came to find out later who they were.

Now, you mentioned Lonnie Frisbee.

So the Jesus Movement, there's another movement.

Yeah.

... because it was run by hippies.

Uh, God always picks who he wants to lead things, and that's sometimes not who we would pick.

Lonnie Frisbee was a young man in California that found the Lord in a very interesting way.

He actually was tripping the night he found Jesus.

What is that book about?

It's about, about people that God had to lead great movements of revival, of people like full gospel businessmen, the Jesus people with Lonnie Frisbee, and go through their life and the movements, what happened, good and bad, so we can learn from it.

So if God gives you a movement to lead, you can, uh, lead it more effectively.

Ooh.

So it's exciting.

Well-

Especially Lonnie Frisbee.

He's the hippie preacher that God picked.

but far enough away where people wouldn't think I was becoming one.

And there's this guy named Lonnie Frisbee, and you saw the Jesus Revolution film.

He's played by Jonathan Rumi, who also plays Jesus in The Chosen.

And when I met Jonathan, I said to the director, this guy has to be Lonnie.

And then I ended up at a church called Calvary Chapel where the Jesus movement was in full swing.

And that's when my life began to radically change.

Tell me about Lonnie Frisbee, the person.

Yeah.

I'm just encouraging people that, like, "Look, if you can find it in history where God has done it before, you can believe in a present day that God will do it again." And not only would God do it again, but the Bible says the reign of the latter is greater than the reign of the former, which means everything that you have honored with what God has done in a previous generation is not your ceiling, it is your floor to believe for what God could do through men and women who would say yes to what he desires to pour out in the earth.

And so as this pastor's dropping me off at the hotel, he says, "While you were preaching, I got stirred up." And he says, "Y- you, you, you don't know this, but while you were telling the stories of the Jesus people movement and, and guys like Lonnie Frisbee who got born again, and, and, and, and God used them as great evangelists in their generation." He goes, "Russell, you don't know this, but after I moved to LA, somehow, some way, I, I became friends with some of Lonnie's family members.

And they knew that I honored the revival history stories as well.

And a number of years ago, th- they gave me something v- very precious from Lonnie's estate.

The Jesus Revolution started with some hippie In Joshua Tree, wherever he went, I don't know and I don't care.

tripping on acid or whatever he was high on in wherever he was, a homosexual, Lonnie Frisbee, started what people think is the Jesus Revolution.

What was birthed out of that? Some dude named Chuck Smith, who created a legion of Calvary chapels, knowing that Lonnie Frisbee was a homosexual, allowed him in that church until Lonnie left the church.

I was going to say village people.

The Vine, thank you, Lord.