Lonnie Frisbee and Calvary Chapel
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- Lonnie Frisbee and Calvary Chapel
- Lonnie Frisbee: Homosexuality, Marriage and Mumford
- Lonnie Frisbee and The Vineyard
- Lonnie Frisbee: The Life and Death of a Hippie Preacher
- Lonnie Frisbee - The Documentary
- Lonnie Frisbee: Research Resources
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Researcher David Di Sabatino is the recognized authority on the Jesus People movement. In his thesis on the history of the movement - which formed the basis of his book, The Jesus People Movement: An Annotated Bibliography and General Resource, he writes:
The alignment of the internationally known Calvary Chapel church with the Jesus People Movement is centered around the work of two contrasting images. Calvary Chapel was founded on the alliance of pastor-teacher, Chuck Smith Jr. and hippie evangelist Lonnie Frisbee.
Chuck Smith grew up in a stable and loving family who became Christians as a result of the miraculous healing of Chuck’s older sister. Upon entering Los Angeles Bible College in 1946, Chuck fulfilled a youth camp decision to enter the ministry. Taking a number of pastorates over the years, Smith speaks of enduring “17 years of denominational discomfort” where he believes that “God prepared him for what was about to happen.” In 1965, after moving to a small church in Costa Mesa, Smith stated he was given a prophecy that he would “become a shepherd over many flocks. . . to the point where our gathering place would not be adequate to contain all of the people.” In 1969, the tiny church had outgrown its facilities undertaking a building project. They erected a chapel on the border between Santa Ana and Costa Mesa. It was shortly before the building project that Smith would be introduced to Lonnie Frisbee.
Frisbee’s background was very different than Smith’s. Abused and sexually molested as a child, Frisbee carried this internal pain throughout his Christian life. Though raised in a Christian home, he found solace in the California drug subculture. A promising art student at the San Francisco Art Academy, Frisbee was initially drawn into the Jesus People Movement by members of the Haight’s Living Room mission. His subsequent reaffirmation of an adolescent confession of faith provided the movement with one of its most pivotal and controversial characters. Lonnie Frisbee was the epitome of the biblical motif of strength through weakness. Although he could barely read or write, he is remembered by his peers as “someone who accomplished more with less ability, than anyone.”
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