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Date: February 24, 2023 at 10:03:46
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Kelsey Grammer Gets Emotional Talking About “Jesus Revolution” |
URL: https://youtu.be/8PsGl5wt3_A |
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Kelsey Grammer Gets Emotional Talking About “Jesus
Revolution”
(based on true story, I was there. )
540,285 views Feb 15, 2023
Kelsey Grammer talks about playing Chuck Smith in
"Jesus Revolution."
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Jesus Revolution
Miscellaneous • 2023 • 31 sec
PG-13
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In the 1970s, young Greg Laurie (Joel Courtney) is
searching for all the right things in all the wrong
places: until he meets Lonnie Frisbee (Jonathan
Roumie), a charismatic hippie-street-preacher. Together
with Pastor Chuck Smith (Kelsey Grammer), they open the
doors of Smith's languishing church to an unexpected
revival of radical and newfound love, leading to a
JESUS REVOLUTION that changed the world.
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Date: February 24, 2023 at 10:19:33
From: Cinnamon in Oregon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Kelsey Grammer Gets Emotional Talking About “Jesus Revolution” |
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Planning to see it next week with a good friend. Going to order the book too. Because I usually always enjoy books even better than the movie.
I found Jesus on the East Coast during the tail-end of that time period. And it was great! We all would get together to discuss what the Lord was teaching us from his Word and how he was changing us in our lives. We all just holed up in a comfy cove and read our Bibles. And followed the example of Jesus.
And then...about mid-70's, suddenly that all changed and the church got very "corporate" and stiff and rigid and increasingly mechanical. Where we were organic and naturally in love with God. Kind of reminds me of the passage where Jesus tells his disciples that you can't put new wine into old wineskins because it only bursts the wineskins.
We need to go back to that - the simplicity of listening to God in his written word and in daily life and following Jesus. It bubbled with freshness. It wasn't stale. And we loved God and were excited about our relationship with him.
Time we need to bring back. We never thought about doing "dirt" to others.
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Date: February 24, 2023 at 11:55:52
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Kelsey Grammer Gets Emotional Talking About “Jesus Revolution” |
URL: https://youtu.be/41oySf9-TdE |
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I agree Cinnamon. Yeah I was there from 1971 to 1972
just when the original small church was getting
overcrowded. Stayed til they had to put up the big tent
and then left, (and my life was going in another
direction for I got married in 1973), for it for me, had
got too big. Chuck stayed true to his calling tho.
Amazing how Kelsey Grammer tells of his own experience in
how he chose to portray Chuck Smith. Btw, Chuck Smith
was grandfather to one of my younger sisters' children,
adopted by one of Chuck's children. Small world. Here's
interview of Grammer at link, short video.
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Date: February 24, 2023 at 13:38:56
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: This is where I was baptized, Pirates Cove, Del Mar Beach |
URL: https://youtu.be/aW-2tbSiCWM |
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Actual footage back then.
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Date: March 05, 2023 at 08:53:04
From: Cinnamon in Oregon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: This is where I was baptized, Pirates Cove, Del Mar Beach |
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Must have been quite an experience. Interesting to learn that one of the leaders was a closet gay man.
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Date: March 05, 2023 at 12:39:17
From: pamela, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: This is where I was baptized, Pirates Cove, Del Mar Beach |
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I was there only for about a year and 1/2. THen moved
on. It was not really my "cup of tea". I was not a
hippie, my younger sisters were interested and I went
the first time to check it out. Loved the music tho
and Chuck's teaching was good.
I was already working full time and paying my mom to
help out with bills/rent, etc. And I did not regard
Lonnie as a leader per se but allot of the hippies did.
Did the movie point out he was a closet gay? I only
heard about this recent from some other interviews I
watched. From some of the trailers I watched, for me,
it did not capture the true essence of all of that. One
had to be there. It was a magical/mystical time for
sure. It took me years of untangling myself from the
Catholic church influence, then the Protestant church.
Having been Catholic when I was 10, leaving that when
I was 11, going to the Protestants, on and off, mostly
off, then God leading me into just a whole other way of
being, living, learning and continuing to follow
teachings of Jesus without the dogma's. In 1989 I
declared myself a non Christian, and still do. Its a
spiritual relationship not a churchianity. I have
several members of my family who are gay.
I am not a church goer. I left that long ago. Studied
many of the religions of the world to better understand
all of it and what people thought/experienced. And
still do. Including the religious history. So from
that time in my life, in 1971 when I was baptized at
18, to the now, at almost 70 been an interesting
journey. Pirates Cove, Corona del Mar/Huntington Beach
is part of my roots, more a beach girl and a pirate,
arrgghh.
Lol.
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Date: March 09, 2023 at 01:14:01
From: Cinnamon in Oregon, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: This is where I was baptized, Pirates Cove, Del Mar Beach |
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No, the movie die not mention that Lonnie was gay. I am looking online to buy the book, and found that bit of info in some reviews. Not at all surprising that the movie would omit that - in today's situation, that would have finished the movie. All most people would have focused on would have been "that", and disregarded all else.
I've encountered that same phenomenon in books. Sometimes an author will give brief bio sketches of various people in their book, but 1 character will be glaringly sparse. No bio. And it has made me wonder if the person was gay. And...it would have demolished the book. Most Christians would have never read the book, they'd have focused on the fact that this character was gay. And so, it would make sense to omit this.
Tough issue. I had to grapple with that several years ago - and it was gut-wrenching. Really had to trust the Lord to help me think clearly through the Scriptures. I know several gay Christians who truly love the Lord. And I had to finally conclude that God loved and accepted them. But even now, still wrestling and asking God about the specific "details" of all that. God seems to guide me piece by piece. So I understand why people struggle with that issue. You want to always listen to God, and at the same time, you don't want to unnecessarily hurt people due to your own lack of clarity.
I rejoice that God isn't half as concerned that I have all the exact right answers today as he is that I have a heart that is open to him and listening for his answers and willing to act upon them when he shows me, regardless of what others may say about me.
I too came from a Catholic upbringing. Loved God but was steeped in "the Law". Was great to understand "Grace". Except that, other than understanding grace in regards to forgiveness at the cross, very few Protestants understand how to grow in that grace after believing. They too remain steeped in do's and don'ts and never seem to fully understand that Jesus came to "give us rest" and the New Testament, although it has many instructions, is all about "walk in the Spirit and you will not carry out the desires of the flesh". We don't focus on the instructions. We walk and talk with God, and he changes us. He does the changing. We don't engage on some self-improvement program.
And that's where Christianity, properly understood, parts ways with "religion" and becomes "spiritual". It stops being about focusing on outward things, but starts to flow from the inside from your relationship with God each day.
But not widely understood in practical daily living by many Christians. Took me years to learn that, because nobody was teaching it. Everything was more of a "Try harder." I DID try and failed over and over again.
Okay, time to turn in for the night....Good night.
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