Jesus Revolution [Blu-ray]

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The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. At KOVA, we are passionate about meaningful stories provoking meaningful conversations, and we believe that the key message of this film, that church is a place where everyone is welcome, is a great place to start! Moreover, just as Eric Burdon is hitting the high notes about the ruin of many a poor boy, it becomes clear that we’re seeing one of the key characters in the story, the real-life figure of Lonnie Frisbee (played by Jonathan Roumie) as he parts ways with the others in the evangelical movement he helped start. Then book your tickets, tell your friends, tell your Church and go see Jesus Revolution in UK cinemas from June 23rd.

The film will be shown at Cromer's Regal Movieplex on Hans Place at 7pm on Thursday 21st September and is open to anyone aged 12 or over. His journey to becoming a pastor and finding a wife are sadly not as interesting as everything that has gone before. The movie stars Kelsey Grammer, best known for his roles in the US sitcoms Cheers and Frasier, as Pastor Chuck Smith, a key figure in the Jesus movement. While headlines often tell us that the Church in the UK and Ireland is in decline, this clearly tells a different story," KOVA said.When she brings home the charismatic – in both senses of the word – Frisbee, Smith and the chapel are both transformed. This is sad, because within the true story of Frisbee and Calvary Chapel lies something more complicated and real than the film is prepared to show.

In the end, if you are not a faith-oriented viewer looking to drink the film’s Kool-Aid, you might wish a different, secular film-maker was telling this story, able to examine how the Jesus movement intersected with the communal living of the time, and the rise of Christian cults that would lead to the Jonestown massacre and, in a different direction, the megachurches that now dominate Christianity around Los Angeles. That’s when we see the barriers of polite Christianity exemplified by Smith slowly being broken down by the chaotic, surprising grace shown in Frisbee. If you prefer us not to set these cookies, please visit our Cookie Settings page or continue browsing our site to accept them. This film tells the story of revival in California in the 1970s and the key message is that church is for everyone.Jesus Revolution tells the story of how the Jesus movement brought Christ to the hippy generation in 60s' California, including Greg Laurie, today a successful megachurch pastor. However, UK Christians will be disappointed to learn the film is only available on Netflix within the United States, for now. This was the beginning of what became Calvary Chapel which in turn spawned the worldwide Vineyard movement. As the new Indiana Jones film hits our cinema screens, Giles Gough unpacks the Christian iconography used in the film franchise.