Jesus Revolution Quotes

“C. S. Lewis observed that new believers can become discouraged, right at the doorstep of faith, if they seek only the initial emotional experience, not the ongoing reality of a maturing relationship with God. Speaking in the fictional voice of a devilish tempter in The Screwtape Letters, he wrote, The Enemy [God] allows this disappointment to occur on the threshold of every human endeavor. . . . The Enemy takes this risk because He has a curious fantasy of making all these disgusting little human vermin into what He calls His “free” lovers and servants—“sons” is the word He uses. . . . Desiring their freedom, He therefore refuses to carry them, by their mere affections and habits, to any of the goals which He sets before them: He leaves them to “do it on their own.” And there lies our opportunity. But also, remember, there lies our danger. If once they get through this initial dryness successfully, they become much less dependent on emotion and therefore much harder to tempt.”
― Greg Laurie, Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today

“God can use anyone who truly decides he or she is “for Jesus,” as Greg did in 1970, to accomplish extraordinary things for His kingdom.”
― Greg Laurie, Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today

“Today, 75 percent of young people who grew up in Christian homes and churches are now abandoning their faith as young adults. More than one-third of millennials say they are unaffiliated with any faith, up 10 percentage points since 2007.”
― Greg Laurie, Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today

“if you want to see a revival, do revival-like things.”
― Greg Laurie, Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today

“One is a path I’ve warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility.”
― Greg Laurie, Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today

“two musical options: old hymns or cheery camp songs. Then, as hippie musicians who came to Jesus applied their talents to writing praise music about Him, Christian teenagers had new music to call their own. The resulting creative explosion—what’s known now as contemporary Christian music—changed the face of worship in many churches for decades to come.”
― Greg Laurie, Jesus Revolution: How God Transformed an Unlikely Generation and How He Can Do It Again Today