DeVon Franklin From The Movie Jesus Revolution

Published: Feb. 25, 2023, 1 a.m.

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 what TIME Magazine dubbed a JESUS REVOLUTION. "IS GOD DEAD?" So proclaimed the cover of TIME Magazine in 1966 , a stark pronouncement on a bleak background that seemed to herald a new, godless era in American history. Four years later, the tide had turned. The summer of 1971 saw the same magazine place a groovy Jesus over a psychedelic backdrop under a very different phrase: THE JESUS REVOLUTION. What happened in those four years is the story of an unlikely friendship between a disillusioned young man on a quest for meaning and the hippie-street-preacher who would inspire him to start a movement that would transform the entire nation. JESUS REVOLUTION tells the remarkable story of two men who had nothing in common except a belief that faith could change the world, and a community of young people whose lives they would transform together.