This movie is based on a true story, that I only recently learned of and know almost nothing about.

From the description and movie trailers, it seems to have pretty high production values and looks pretty good.

Opens in select theaters today.

https://jesusrevolution.movie/

Description from the website:

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In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is searching for all the right things in all the wrong places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the doors of Smith’s languishing church to an unexpected revival of radical and newfound love, leading to what TIME Magazine dubbed a JESUS REVOLUTION.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=8vmHFvnjPDw




https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-jb5ZGcnUbA




https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SVsDBXYs330

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In a perfect world, we could sure use trailer load of good love.

I saw it a few weeks ago. It really is a great movie that has a lot of heart and understanding.

That movement in the 1970’s was huge and it’s a reason my parents are together today, both former Catholics but now Born-Again Christians.

I still listen to music from that era/movement like Keith Green.

Movie looks like it will be pretty good!

It does look very good. I follow Mark Lowry on Facebook, who some of you may know from the Gaither clan. He posted that it was great and all of the comments say the same.

Looking forward to seeing it.

Looks awesome.

I’ll check this one out.

My mom joined the Church of Christ when I was about 5 after her catholic priest refused to baptize my younger brother because her donation wasn’t enough.

They were open and friendly like in this movie trailer and really showed love to us kids no matter our financial status. My mom quit going regularly but I would walk there on Sundays because they were more like family than my family. I got baptized there at 15 and the leaders/preachers would regularly pick me up to hang out or have dinner with them. This is missing today. We need another Jesus Revolution.

Or maybe just I do.

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...after her catholic priest refused to baptize my younger brother because her donation wasn’t enough.

Yeah, I'm sure that happened.

You never miss an opportunity, do you?

My Dad (and many of his friends) was saved in 1972 in his little country church. He was 17 and into everything the 60s hippie, rock n roll culture could offer. It was a miraculous conversion (they all are but his seemed even more so). Many in his very conservative Pentecostal church were resistant to these young people getting saved and coming to church. One man even stood up and pointed to their row and said "it's a shame for a man to have long hair."

But many of those old beehive, blue haired folks loved those kids with all their hearts. My Dad became a preacher and was a pastor and evangelist for 49 years until he died in 2021. He also turned his musical love to Jesus and made contemporary Christian music and wrote songs all his life. The "Jesus movement" was a true cultural event and one of God's great outpourings in America.

So anyways, this movie looks good and I can't wait to see it.

Jeepers mark! I’m a Catholic and I hate to hear of this. There’s a special place for scum that steal in the name of religion, any religion.

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Jeepers mark! I’m a Catholic and I hate to hear of this. There’s a special place for scum that steal in the name of religion, any religion.

Yeah, my brother Christopher was the first in our family not given a catholic christening or baptism.

And with the name of Saint Christopher!!

Keep the faith that makes you strong mark.
God Bless!

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And with the name of Saint Christopher!!

Keep the faith that makes you strong mark.
God Bless!

thanks. I didn’t come here to offend. I just wanted to tell how I came to be part of the Jesus Revolution. Must have been 1972 or 1973.

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We need another Jesus Revolution.

Or maybe just I do.

No, it's not just you.

And here's the thing... it's happening right now! At this very moment!

I only learned of this a couple days ago. Admittedly, there has been a LOT of important news items sucking up air-time coverage in recent weeks; classified documents found in President's garages, Chinese Spy balloons, trains derailing while carrying toxic chemicals, ongoing wars, proposed gun bans and infringements on 2A etc ... But, I still think this news story should be getting more coverage than it actually is.

Over the last couple weeks, thousands of people have been pouring into the tiny town of Asbury Kentucky, where there is a small Christian College. Prayer meetings, worship services, singing, day and night. A decision was made to leave the auditorium and chapel open all night long, with nothing more than security guards to watch over strangers in worship.

Bottled water showing up, people in other states baking muffins and chocolate chip cookies and then delivering them and passing them around, pizzas being delivered.

A town of about six thousand, suddenly more than doubling with an influx of worshippers over a couple weeks.

I don't know if anyone really knows, but the last number I saw was about ten thousand worshippers had arrived over a span of a couple weeks.

I don't know if this was a spontaneous grass roots revival movement or if it was a planned and staged PR movement around the release of the movie The Jesus Revolution...and I don't care. I only wish the news had covered this story earlier. I think it would be pretty neat to be a part of something like this.

[Note: multiple hyperlinks found at linked article.]

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Join the Final Asbury Revival Event: Watch Our Livestream from Asbury on Collegiate Day of Prayer

02-23-2023

Benjamin Gill


Asbury revival (Photo: CBN News)

Asbury University has ended the public revival services that ran for more than two weeks in the school's Hughes Auditorium. But before the campus conclusion, one final event punctuated this awakening with a big exclamation point. CBN News livestreamed it for our viewers on Thursday night.

Asbury leaders said the revival would move off campus to continue at other locations in the central Kentucky area, although it's not clear where that might be. "As part of Asbury's intention of encouraging and commissioning others to 'go out' and share what they have experienced, all services will be hosted at other locations and no longer held at Asbury University," the school has announced.

On Thursday night, thousands of viewers joined the livestream of that special service right here at CBNNews.com, taking place on the national Collegiate Day of Prayer. "I find it fitting that what started with college students on our campus is ending with college students joined in prayer and worship across the country," University President Kevin J. Brown said.

***WATCH THE RECORDING: Asbury University, National Collegiate Day of Prayer Revival Livestream, Thursday, February 23, on CBN News YouTube, the CBN News App, and CBN Family App.***

"I've seen several headlines with titles suggesting that we are ending revival services or that we are scheduled to end revival," Brown said earlier in the week. "And while it is true that Thursday evening will conclude our last service in Hughes Auditorium here on the campus of Asbury University, we know this is not a conclusion to hungry hearts being stirred, and responding by seeking Jesus Christ."

"Over the last few weeks, we have been honored to steward and host services and the guests who have traveled far and wide to attend them," he said. "The trajectory of renewal meetings is always outward—and that is beginning to occur. We continue to hear inspiring stories of hungry hearts setting aside daily routines and seeking Christ at schools, churches, and communities in the U.S. and abroad."

READ Anne Graham Lotz: This Could Be the 'Last Great Awakening' as Asbury Revival Fires Reach New Campuses

MORE 'It Is Incredible': Filmmaker Alex Kendrick Visits Lee Univ. Revival, Awakening Spreads to Multiple Campuses

@ 2 hours 35 minutes


https://m.youtube.com/watch?ti...%2F&feature=emb_logo

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Jeepers mark! I’m a Catholic and I hate to hear of this. There’s a special place for scum that steal in the name of religion, any religion.

Yeah, my brother Christopher was the first in our family not given a catholic christening or baptism.

Me and my 3 sisters got kicked out of Catholic school because they wanted my sisters to kneel down and pray to a statue of Mary and my parents refused to let them. Long story that involved my Dad getting divorced and remarried and we ended up at Catholic school because the public school was terrible. We ended up at a Christian school where we all ended going till 8th grade.

You might not think this stuff happens but it does.

I was taught by the good Polish Sisters of the Felican Order 1st to 8th grade. You toe the line or Holy Hell would come down on you.

Folks didn’t have tuition $$ for Catholic high. I went to our local public high. I was placed in Sophomore level. Junior level Latin Class. I owe those good Sisters!

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We just got done watching this and we really enjoyed it.
I was born in the 80s so it was neat to see and learn about that movement.

A little sidebar to Modern Day Savage’s Post about the ongoings at Asbury.

I grew up in Cincy which is about 2 hours from Wilmore, Ky where Asbury is. I would travel there every April till they moved it to summer for a huge outdoor Christian Music Festival called Ichthus.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ichthus_Festival
We called it the Christian Woodstock. Outside all weekend in the weather enjoying tons of friends (not in quite the same way as Woodstock) and music.
There were quite a few mudfests.

Now, I live just down the road from Asbury and it is great to see this while it is getting some media attention I sure wish it was getting more.
They’ve moved it up the road to Rupp arena where University of Kentucky Basketball plays.

It’s fun seeing the vehicles from all over the country painted up Asbury Bound.

This is the 1st yr. I’ve heard of this. I think it’s terrific, folks can see and feel the power.

I plan on going to see it Tuesday.