Who Is Greg Laurie? The True Story Behind Jesus Revolution’s Central Character

Jesus Revolution centers around Greg Laurie, the Evangelical author and pastor whose eventful life was as colorful as the 2023 Christian drama. Set in the politically turbulent decade of the 1960s, the unconventional biopic movie follows the journey of Greg, the easygoing Christian hippie Lonnie Frisbee and the stern but good-natured pastor Chuck Smith as they immerse themselves in the Jesus Movement in California. Spanning across the late 1960s and early 1970s, this evangelical movement was revolutionary at its time for opening the church doors to even hippies willing to become people of faith (or “Jesus freaks,” as some of them called themselves).