Jonathan Roumie

Lonnie Frisbee would spend so much of his life chasing after those "glory days" of the Jesus Movement, as Greg Laurie said, but he had a horrible diagnosis that would stop him. Just before his death, Lonnie Frisbee, who was a complicated but also truly anointed man who expressed so much regret for the choices that he had made, repented and came back to God just before he passed away from the AIDS virus.

Chuck Smith, Greg Laurie and Lonnie Frisbee, characters in the "Jesus Revolution," feel somewhat familiar in the way that we are just as divided, discouraged and hopeless now as they were then, half a century ago.

Jonathan Roumie believes that the timing of this movie is nothing short of divine. God's hands are all over this movie, especially as so many people have been talking about the spiritual awakening at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, and other university campuses.

This prayer and worship celebration, which followed a routine chapel service in February, was led by college students, which kind of resembled the awakening that occurred on the same campus in February 1970.

The Asbury revival moved off campus that has had thousands of visitors from all over the United States, and it looks like other awakenings are beginning to break out in other places around the country. Jonathan said, "The popularity of 'The Chosen,' its success in theaters in the release last month, the release of this film on the heels of this week-plus-long prayer service, thousands of people showing up at Asbury University, I don't think anything is coincidental or done by chance or happenstance."

Jonathan also said, "I think God has a purpose in everything that He does. I think this is a moment where the culture is being reactivated to welcome Him back into the culture on a massive scale, potentially a global scale."