Greg Laurie Leads Mass Baptism of 550 People

This weekend at Pirates Cove beach in California, author and megachurch Pastor Greg Laurie led the mass baptism of 550 people. 

According to The Christian Post, Laurie and pastors from his church, Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, were joined by pastors from nine other Southern California churches to baptize new believers on Saturday morning.

“Back over 40 years ago during the Jesus Movement, we used to do baptisms down at Pirates Cove beach. In fact, that is where I was baptized and my wife, Cathe, was baptized there as well,” Laurie told The Christian Post. “It is a significant place, historically, for the Church because that was sort of the epicenter of the Jesus Revolution, as reported on by Time magazine and others. It was a phenomenon.”

The baptism started at 10 a.m. and went on until noon.

This mass baptism comes weeks after Laurie’s 29th annual, Southern California Harvest Crusade, where nearly 10,000 people dedicated their lives to Christ, and just days after Laurie’s new book, Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today, was released. The book was co-authored by New York Times best-selling author Ellen Vaughn.

“Something that occurred to me as we were baptizing all those people is that if you want to see a revival, do revival-like things,” Laurie explained. “This is what we used to do [in my generation]. We did big,…