An Oral History of Jesus Movement
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- Chuck Smith, late pastor of Calvary Chapel, and pioneering CCM group Love Song sit and chat about their recollections in regard to the beginnings of the Jesus Movement and Contemporary Christian Music. Unedited
I was in the Blue Top, Lonnie led me to speaking in tongues on his back perch. Had prayer meetings in Lonnies & Connies living room. Lonnie was very instrumental in my spiritual life. Chuck you used to pick me up when I was hitch hiking. Moved to Kansas taking Chuck's teaching tapes with me, my church let me set up a library. Got drafted, I passed out tracts and witnessed for Jesus until they kicked me out with an honorable discharge. Anyone remember Roman who was an elder at the CC in the early days? The person whol led me to the Lord was Greg Means..
We see a pattern. If you serv the Lord with all your heart - they will kick you out. Christ is the new wine and you become a new wineskin. You become a new creation. Pastors like David Wilkerson have problems with you. They do not rejoice when someone has come to Christ. But we sing How great thou art! Praise the Lord my soul.
That’s awesome man, praise God
Good to see Chuck Smith and his awesome smile!!🙏😊❣
Pappa Chuck's smile is infectious! His smile is what instantly comes to mind at the very mention of him and every memory of him. How I miss his sweet smile!!
@@bettierusso5410 Unfortunately, not too many people are familiar with this man of God.
Pastor Chuck is as foundatiomal in modern Christianity as any Preacher. He is a Church Father to millions and Billions of several generations in these Last Days. He is celebrating his Victory in Jesus. ✝️
I loved Chuck Smith’s comment, “And then the Lord zapped him.” How many times in my own life, God has zapped me to refocus on Him during my life!
Thanks for making this! I saw this happening on the West coast in the early 70s. So many of us committed our lives to Jesus in a meaning full live long way. Love Song was great music that we all listened to!
Believe the Early & Latter Harvest is beginning! Come Lord Jesus, Amen
Lonnie always said. ..God uses the weak and broken....not by might not by power but by My Spirit says the Lord😂😂😂😂😊😊
Lonnie was a gay fornicator.
Lonnie was a sodomite and smoked crack while in ministry. He has zero credibility
Amen.
My older brother in Jesus, more a brother to me than my birth brothers, is Walter, lives in WA State, but he is from S.Clemente and helped Pastor Chuck build CCM and helped start MARANATHA MUSIC, and Walter told me about this video - I got saved at 16 in 1973, Pastor Chuck baptized me in Pirate's Cove that summer. I had to sneak to CCM so my sad abusive catholic non-Jesus family wouldn't find out; when they did, I had to move out. I almost moved into THE LORD'S HOUSE, the Calvary safe house on PCH at 6th. This - and Walter's stories - are a huge blessing to listen to. Love Song and other Christian groups from our Jesus Movement time were phenomenal and helped cement our love for Jesus and each other. Thank you, Chuck, for uploading this!
Could we learn the names of these precious men?
Praise God for moving you away from your abusive family. He gives us new family!! New life.
@@marygreen1577 This is Chuck Smith and members of the band Love Song, including Chuck Girard (whose TH-cam channel this is.) 😁♥️
A reminder of my youthful days of being a new christian in the late 60s..i went to Calvary Chapel when it was a tent..loved Pastor Chuck
just watched the ‘Jesus Revolution’ and appreciate a recount of those days
I love this panel ' each speaker tells parts each piece is put together it is lovely ' maranatha
We went to Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa for 25 years. I knew Chuck, and he was a good man of God. He was number 1 in my book..
This was my first time to watch this. I am so glad these guys were able to do this of all their memories. They were so humble to not take money, but doing it for Jesus. I had to cry when the Filipinos gave them nothing. Also shame on the full gospel businessmen. Since this was my era & I wasn’t a hippie, I have always loved this group. I play it everyday for the last year because it lets me worship & fills my heart with joy from the losses I’v experienced recently. I know in heaven there will be many people there because I’d LOVE SONG. ❤️. I pray & bless them for what they let God do then & now. 🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼
I'm praying for first a personal revival and then a revival similar to the Jesus Movement... Christians everywhere walking in the spirit. Longing for that.
That wasn't a true movement..study the Word, seek Him not a movement...spirit of this movement wasn't Holy Spirit..Repentance and Obedience leads to personal revival..I share this in love to you.
I’m with you, Melanie. Revival, movement… whatever. I don’t care about labels, I just want to see people repent and come to the Lord and come back to the Lord.
@@shellyhambleton9015 We seek him but, we should also seek for others to repent and be saved. Not only is it our job as Christians to do that but it is basic common decency to pray hope and try to help save people from Hell.
You took the words right out of my mouth ! I was going to say that 🙏
@@shellyhambleton9015 There is SO MUCH FRUIT OF THE SPIRIT for thise involved in this "non-movement" all these years later. Pretty harsh judgement, and limited by a vision in darkness.
We, who are believers are still being worked by God Himself. He's not finished with us yet.
I don't know what the reformed have taught you, but thus was sealed by God.
I don't know if you can remember, but those days were pretty hellacious. Free sex, drugs,and rock and roll weree the main stay.
The rebellion of that decade, and the one before has brought America to the place we are at.
The fall is here. Take heed and draw nigh unto the Father of lights. Speak to Him just as your closest confident, and even more. He is coming for everything in us.
Let us be hble, and meek; and receive the correction He has for us.
Much love
Who is watching this after seeing Jesus Revolution?
Disappointed it was just about Greg and they made Chuck look weak. Not the Chuck I knew. Mike M, Raul, etc had such great testimonies and they were left out. Listening to him I wonder what we did wrong to not have this continue. I left CA and was shocked seeing the churches Calvary especially. Sad days ahead
This is an absolute treat to hear. Thank you.
What a blessing!! I don't usually sit through a three hour TH-cam video, but I'm so blessed that I did!! Thank you for letting the Lord lead your lives!
I didn't get into the alternate lifestyles of that era, rejecting them. But, still lost, I was led to CC Costa Mesa and breathed deep the peace, joy & rest - meat for this journey called life. I'm so thankful to be a partaker of God's Life in Jesus. Psalms 68:4-6 & Isaiah 66:1,2
I hope you are really enjoying your life. I found Love Song reading about the Jesus Movement. I have a couple of Love Song CDs.
Take care of yourself and may The LORD Bless You! 💙🙏🙏🙏💙
Glad you got the Jesus and not the drugs and sexual sins like Lonnie Frisbee.
@@joinjen3854He repented at the end of his life. He was abused as a child.
Good to remember the good years of Calvary when I found Jesus 45 years ago. Met my wife there and started my whole life in Christ.
I feel like Maxwell Smart listening to these guys reminiscing: “missed it by THAT much…” I was born just a little too late. Too young for Woodstock, the British invasion and the initial wave of the Jesus Movement. Story of my life, I guess. When my ship came in I was waiting at the train station. But hey, I’m still blessed by what grew out of Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa, Love Song, and all that. I’m attending a CC with a great pastor who faithfully teaches the Bible, verse by verse. I still listen to the old Maranatha Praise albums and a lot of other music that never would have existed were it not for Love Song and the other pioneers of CCM. Thanks guys! Looking forward to some amazing worship with y’all in the Kingdom…!
It’s great to listen to guys with experiences of the past.
Pray for your personal revival and that of the nation.
I totally enjoyed this and hearing the history of this group. This brought back so many memories.
I love the Spirit of the movement, and I've long been curious about it's timing, etc. Jesus was the answer then, and He's the same yesterday, today, and forever. The commune thing, not so much, but it served a purpose likely because of the communal living, and so many were saved. Hallelujah
Thank you so much for sharing this!! Soo amazing.. So many relatable things they say that are exactly what I've gone & am currently going through as a young man who was lost in the new age hippie movement. Freedom is amazing. God is great!!! So much love to everyone watching.
It is by His Sovereign working. Non of us can can manufacture what God has done before. He did it then. The pillar of fire moves at night, the cloud by day. Key is walk with Him. Be where He is, even in the desert.put our entire dependance upon Him. Otherwise, it won't be fresh like 40 years ago. It will be 40 year old manna. Love you guys. You were a big part of my early walk with Christ. God bless you.
John you are so right......its like pregnancy....babies show up when they show up.....same with the move of God, I was there and by His grace "got it", went from house to house breaking bread....starting ministries and "being faithful" "all the time".......that move was clearly gone by no later than 1981!
@@projectdesign4675 Thank you for abiding.
John Myers, did you happen to be serving in the US Navy in San Diego and ship in the later 1970s, then went to Cal Poly after the Navy?
@@projectdesign4675 babies show up 9 months after conceptio n.....not a mystery!!
@@joinjen3854 No. Sure didn't.
I think that I met you gentlemen in 1973 in Amsterdam on a YWAM boat called The Ark. I was pretty messed. The music blew me away, I recognized it later after I met Jesus.
I was in Amsterdam summer of 1974 studying classical culture all over Europe that summer, and there was a bus not from from the Rijks Museum... I didn't see The Ark, I wasn't into drugs or anything like that, just studying, but this was interesting and I'm glad you got saved. God bless you, Fred.
@@FriendofRamblinJack The Ark was behind Central Railway Station, we walked through the Station to get to the water side.
Such a blessing to watch this remembering the Jesus movement and how it affected the youth in northern Minnesota. Also we loved Love Song music and Chuck Girard
Thank you precious brothers for glorifying our Lord through your music. Your music encouraged me greatly as a young believer in the 70s and even now. Pastor Chuck was truly a gift to me as well in his deep study and sold teaching of the Word of God. Maranatha🙏🔥✝️🔥🙏
Praise God! I Love hearing about All of Your Incredible, and Very Inspiring testimonies! Of How God Worked in Your Lives, and Hearts. Through the Holy Spirit. And How You All came to know Jesus Christ, as your Personal Lord, and Savior. Praying 🙏for you All! Love, and God Bless you All!☺❤
Took me wayyy back. Loved it! ❤
Mrs Worth, I am a child of the '80s do you know of any other 'Jesus Freak' bands from the Jesus Movement? I really like Love Song. 💜
Thank you Mrs. Worth. 💜🙏 God bless, Erica Dawn
@@oldsoul4762 look up Keith Green.
Thank you Chuck for posting this… I never got to hear the full conversation when you guys did this the summer of ‘09. It’s hard to believe that Bob is gone, that Pastor Chuck is gone, and that Chuck Fromm is gone. I think I remember that Chris Taylor was there too that day, and he is gone too… unreal. So glad you all recorded this when you did!
Loved watching this Chuck! Thanks for sharing! You guys really impacted my life! Including Chuck Smith.
God bless you and the guys!🙏🕊️
I'm a little surprised to hear Tommy Coomes say "maybe not so much on the East Coast" (referring to the Jesus movement).
The Spirit moved HUGELY along the east coast and just as spontaneously-appearing as He was moving everywhere else. People in towns next to each other sometimes had no idea that what was happening to them was also happening to their neighbors. My husband preached, as a teenager, at a little Christian coffeehouse where hundreds of kids and adults came to Jesus.
Lamb!
@@arthurbradford I remember them.
I heard their song Sacrifice Lamb being covered by a Lutheran group on an LP in 1975 before I knew about Lamb.
I knew NOTHING of any of this when I got saved in June of 1972.
Had not heard of Love Song, Maranatha, Calvary Chapel, Chuck Smith, none of it except a far-away article in Life or Look magazine. But yet in retrospect I can remember sensing even as an infant Christian an energy among the youth to be the best THEM for God that they could be in using their talents for Him. Although I didn't know what that actually looked like as it was being done in the Jesus Movement, you knew God was moving in some way with that toward outreach.
I'm not sure if you will respond but would you be willing to talk about it I cannot find any sources that talk abt the east coast in the Jesus movement and I've been looking for a while.
The was a Jesus movement coffee house and hippie revival in Western Massachusetts in early 1970’s
Thank you. Great explanations.
Oh my goodness Chuck, I didn't know you were at Melodyland also! We were there also before coming to CCM. When we started ccm, Jimmy Kempner was teaching before/after the concerts, then Greg started doing it. I miss papa Chuck 😢 very much but sooo thankful to have been part of the family. Thank you so much for sharing this. So good to see you all again!! Saw alot of the family at Kay's memorial including Oden. We are truly blessed by God's ordained timing and "our" happenstance. See you here, there, or in the air brother
Thank you for posting this❤😊!
Praise Jesus
Nice for you guys reminisce, but this Jesus Movement was all over the nation.....God was visiting the broken and the hungry in every state in the nation. Thankful for you all but ever so thankful for the many ministries that brought many into the Kingdom. And he we are 50 years later and maybe God waited to pour it out again so he would have many fathers and mothers to help the nurture and send this generation Z to the ends of the earth. "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they shall be filled."
After Chuck left Love Song. The other guys formed a band called Wing and a Prayer. They came to Marshalltown, Iowa in 1974. It was amazing!!
One of the guys referred to all this happening 40 years ago. So this was recorded around 2009. Give or take a few years.
Blessed Assurance is the name of the song 🎧
Born Again in March of 1970 engaged with Chuck Girard in ministry in the the early 2000's.
We honour every movement of the past because it has been line upon line but pity so much time is spent looking at the past. Why is the world now focussed on past moves of God? What God is brining now far outweighs anything we have seen in the past. ❤
! Rez Band , Larry Norman ....Rock n Roll .....!
Thanks for video i info from that.
Would someone please identify each of these men?
💙 Wouldn’t it be great if there was a before & after pic.
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Pam Gessler , IT WAS HAPPENING IN FAR FLUNG NEW ZEALAND ST THE SAME TIME AS U S A. AND VERY SIMILAR WAYS. FROM ‘69-75, IT WAS SIMPLE TO SHARE YOUR FAITH. AND
PEOPLE WUD RESPOND OFTEN AND LATER REALISE IT WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT.
Thank you for this! Wonderful memories. Question? On some recording I had in '71 during the song Love Song someone reads over the music the love chapter from Corinthians. Was that Chuck smith? Whoever it was it was very impacting. Love you guys!
I wish each person could have introduced themselves at the beginning and what role they playing in the Jesus Movement. Cann someone who might be reading this please post this in the comments even though this was made in 2017 and this is 2023 now?
Chuck died in 2013 so it had to be made before 2017. Probably just uploaded to TH-cam in 2017.
Hi there… this was recorded the summer of 2009 on the stage at Calvary Chapel Costa Mesa. On the stage from left to right was Pastor Chuck Smith and the members of the band Love Song… Chuck Girard (Keyboard and Vocals), Jay Truax (Bass and Vocals), John Mehler (Drums), Fred Field (Guitar and Vocals), Tommy Coomes (Guitar and Vocals), Bob Wall (Guitar and Vocals).
I need dates or at least the year to keep the story sequence.
When and how did the Children of God get into the Jesus Revolution movement? You know David Berg etc ?
I wonder what year this was recorded? Pastor Chuck passed away in 2013.
I’m curious why the “movement” had to stop. Did the Holy Spirit say to? Imagine how much sooner the gospel would be spread throughout the world & discipled.
There are many ministries taking the gospel to the whole world.
Im watching this 2.25.23 and tag says this video was from "5 years ago". How can that be when Pastor Chuck passed away in 2013? 10 yrs ago.
It was made years before it was posted.
That's when the video was uploaded. I've made that mistake myself.
What month & year was this discussion recorded?
+/- 2009 from comments in the video.
Who is sitting .... right to left ( I know the two Chucks :) ) ? (edit - yeah, I know stupid question... but I don't know the "who is who" of the band sitting there, I figured out Jay and Fred, Chuck of course... but the other 3 are ...)
From left, Pastor Chuck Smith, Chuck Girard, Jay Truax, John Mehler, Fred Field, Tommy Coomes and Bob Wall. Great band!
One question i always had was: Elvis Presley put out 3 or 4 gospel albums that were popular, he was a very supurb gospel singer, i was wondering with his popularity, do you think Elvis, even indirectly, helped launch the “Jesus Movement” and what we now have, CCM?
ELVIS FIRST LOVE ON PERSONAL LEVEL WAS GOSPEL MUSIC. ITS WHAT STARTED HIM IN MUSIC. AND ITS NOTED THE ONLY GRAMMIES WERE FOR HIS GOSPEL ALBUMS. HIS BIGGEST INFLUENCE WAS IN ROCK N ROLL. I THINK HE LIVED IN 2 WORLDS. HE WASN’T A FAN OF THE HIPPY WORLD.
I would think Keith Green who was in California had more influence than Presley before Keith went to get more land in Texas. I only know Chuck from radio in the 70’s. Hippie on the east coast here. Woodstock era
1Timothy 4:1-5 The Spirit clearly says that in latter times some shall fall away following after deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons by means of the marching of hypocritical liars. Those whose conscience has been branded. These are those who forbid marriage and the receiving of certain foods that God has intended for those who believe and know the truth. For every creature of God is good and nothing is to be refused if it is received with thanksgiving. For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
Ok I’ll bite…did you just feel like posting that or is it a comment on this group discussion? Just curious :)
@@Guinevere.625 that is a cornerstone verse
About prayer foods
I have been having this discussion for a long time. The hippies ate sacred foods
Lonnie came to the Lord in LSD
That move they speak of was real (nothing even 1% of that since), God knows what He's doing.....do a deep dive on Chuck Smith....was on the radio everywhere in late 70's early 80's....I was around fierce seekers of God (they had the fruit of the Spirit).......Chuck is being honest there (he disliked hippies)........he took the best from Lonnie Frisbee and kicked him to the curb.......I learned that the infiltration of a pure thing was people like Chuck Smith!
Additionally....I have a friend who ministered with Lonnie Frisbee for years (he was very young at the time, name was Danny C).....Lonnie may have had sexual problems but Danny saw none, he saw other things he did not like.....but "0" homosexuality (although his gay thing did happen)......Lonnie had a mandate from God to "not build up the local street corner church", but to promote house and group meetings....Lonnie messed up associating with Chuck Smith!
Lonnie said he was in the gay surfing scene at age 15, then again in Haight Asbury he said he would screw anything. You cannot be a gospel leader with sexual sin. Smith and others did the BIBLICAL thing by having him leave. Lonnie died of hiv aids and almost no hetero men get that. I did not know him....I am much younger than this group but Lonnie is recorded numerous places. I hope Lonnie was right with God when he passed, as I wish for everyone.
@@joinjen3854 Lonnie’s books will answer your question about him being right with God before his death. Also the trauma of being molested/raped by babysitter at 9. A “dark evangelist” is what he called him 😭😢
Project Design,
I understand exactly what you're saying, but if you take a look at what happened to Chuck in his childhood through to the time he left home, his parents took him to a church where they not only overemphasized the Holy Spirit...he saw a lot of 'manufactured' activity and was just very turned off.
When Lonnie first started ministering, he knew the Lord, but didn't know very much about the Word of God yet. This bothered Chuck and he saw that the people needed both; the Word and the Holy Spirit!
Now here is where I agree with you, but because hindsight is so perfect it makes it impossible to judge. It's soooooo unfortunate that Chuck did NOT have the sight to see how to help Lonnie in his struggles. Yet, God is Faithful and who can claim that they've brought tens of thousands of people to Jesus Christ? Lonnie Frisbee has been a magnificent blessing to our world, may I be more like him.
Love in Christ,
Cindy
Sounds like the women were the obedient ones to the holy spirit kicking off the jesus movement....but the men take charge and.....where the ladies dudes?
That's like asking where are the Jones' when you are interviewing the Smith's. This is a recording of one small gathering. If you want to know about the ladies, go find their interviews.
The Jesus movement ended in 333 ce as Nazarene Jewish Christianity on Amazon confirms. This makes him a false Messiah-leader like the others mentioned by Rabban Gamaliel in Acts chapter 5 33-39.
I did this, we did that, it's all ego ego ego.
The Bible is full of stories of what men did. Abraham, Noah, Moses, Paul, Peter, etc..... Was that all ego?
Yes. Good insight. See my series on the book not the movie.Thanks for standing up for Jesus and NOT revolting (revolution) against the Savior of the world.
There's always one guy that talks too much.
They get a good line and think they have a song. They repeat it over and over and put some oohs and aahs in it. Congregations should rebel against it.
Speaking only for myself, I appreciate the diversity of music. I love progressive and classical music for the complexity. I love some of the great hymns of the faith for the depth of the lyrics. And I love a lot of those “good lines, repeated over and over, oohs and aahs” for their simplicity. Maybe I’m just stupid, but I find some things need to be repeated and repeated and repeated before they get through my thick skull.
You obviously have not listened to the music these guys made. It is nothing as you’ve described it.
The Bible says in 1st Corinthians chapter 11 that it is shameful for a man to have long hair. Apparently these guys don't give a rip about the Bible but then again their charismatics so obviously
Define long hair.....
You have good insights. See my series on the book on the movie. Thanks.
All the guys who have $$$$ lived off the flock for 40 years.
They had a product....the people bought their product (they were musicians) not sure what your issue is
What are you talking about? What guys? Are you referring to these gentlemen? If they served the Lord as teachers, pastors, then the Bible says they are worthy of a paycheck. You are just assessing what you have no idea of what you are incorrectly and unfairly judging.
Not sure I understand what you mean. Are musicians not supposed to be able to make a living from their craft…?
These particular guys never made money off the flock… you are looking at an exterminator, a school teacher, an architect, a university professor, a minister of music and one professional musician. From 1970-1974/76 when they were active, they ministered free of charge with their wives and children and were supported with room and board by two retired school teachers.
better singers than crosby stills nash. hahahahhahaha, sure buddy
They are better.
Is this a joke?
Why?
business, religion, music, at's all about moving money from some peoples pocket, to other peoples bank account, nobody is going to heaven
Carlos Rivas
I happen to know these guys personally and while I agree that there are those who exploit belief for profit, these guys are not a part of that. they are the genuine article.
You seem like a happy guy. Thanks for the insight!
Carlos Rivas
Jesus loves you Carlos, so much that he gave his life as a ransom for yours, I'm not talking about religion or money I'm talking about your life, your soul, your eternal destiny, God loves you dearly Carlos please think about it
Everybody needs to make a living. Sadly, yes - there are more than a few people who exploit religion to do that. I don’t know of any reasons to put any of these guys in that category. If they do, they’ll answer to God just like you and I will.
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The Jesus Movement was an embarrassment. Lonnie Frisbee, the gay fornicator is your hero? Arrested development in the church with absolutely no discernment among the body of believers. Shame on all these confused men.
The Holy Spirit uses who he uses. Lonnie is not the focus and he was asked to leave as he could not be a christian leader with his continual sexual sins.
David a man after Gods own heart was a murdering adulterer. It seemed like the only persons Jesus had a problem was pharisees like you.
The Jesus Movement was a move of God that saw millions come to salvation.
With you. See my series on the book (not the movie).