“Let’s not sacrifice the Gospel for coolness … what this generation needs is not more cool stuff, they need Jesus Christ,” Harvest Christian Fellowship Pastor Greg Laurie said of today’s young people.
Laurie sat down with PureFlix’s Billy Hallowell last week for an episode of the streaming service’s Pure Talk interview series to discuss his book Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today and the need for another Jesus Revolution in America.
Laurie warned that the culture of today is similar to the toxic culture of the 60s and the 70s that was filled with riots, racism, heavy drug use and war.
“America was in flames. Upheaval, turmoil, riots in the streets, young men coming home from Vietnam in body bags, our leaders being assassinated before our very eyes… there was such chaos in the culture,” Laurie said.
But somewhere between the issuing of a 1966 Time magazine cover that begged the question “Is God Dead?” and the 1971 Time magazine cover sporting the phrase “The Jesus Revolution,” Laurie said, there was a “spiritual awakening.”
In Laurie’s book, he talks about how the Jesus Revolution saved his life overnight.
He said, “I was a 17-year-old kid. I was using drugs every single day. I was going in the wrong direction in my life,” until one day he fell upon a bible study outside of his high…
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