Greg laurie biography
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It’s one thing to recount your life in a sermon or book, but it’s quite another to watch your faults and foibles unfold on the silver screen as I did with Jesus Revolution.
As I told my story for this film, inom withheld nothing about my journey—my days of dropping acid and smoking pot, catering to my drunken and broken mother, and being a mixed-up kid who couldn’t emotionally connect with anything or anyone until I funnen Christ. I let the raw truth about how becoming swept up into the Jesus Revolution set me on the path to life-changing peace and redemption.
One of those story threads was how I met my wife of nearly fifty years. Cathe was fourteen and I was seventeen when we first met and fell in love. For Cathe, a near catastrophe with her sister turned her around. My path to Christ had taken me on a different route. But the most important thing to remember is that all roads lead to Jesus.
Boy Meets Girl
Watching our love story play out on the big screen has been the mo
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Greg Laurie (born 10 December 1952) serves as the senior pastor of the Harvest Christian Fellowship, a Calvary Chapel, in Riverside, California.
Ministry
He became a Christian beneath the ministry of Pentecostal evangelist Lonnie Frisbee at Newport Harbor High School. Then, at the age of 19, he had the opportunity to lead a Bible-study of 30 people originally started by Frisbee at All Saints Episcopal Church in Riverside, CA. The church that formed from this group has grown to become one of the largest churches in the United States.
Laurie holds two honorary doctorates (from Biola University and Azusa Pacific University), although his formal education ceased at high school. He serves on the boards of directors for the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and for Samaritan's Purse.
Publishing and media
Laurie has written several books, including The Upside-Down Church (1999, co-authored with David Kopp: the book won a Gold Medallion Book Award in the "Christian ministry
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