This led Laurie into the Jesus People Movement and he quickly came under the influence of Calvary Chapel’s Chuck Smith, the balding middle-aged pastor often considered the leader of the movement in Southern California. He was born in Long Beach, California, raised by a single mother who married seven times and, to use Laurie words, was a “raging alcoholic.” In high school, Laurie tried to satisfy his search for meaning with drugs until, at the age of 17, he found God through the ministry of charismatic “hippie” preacher Lonnie Frisbee. Laurie’s biography and spiritual journey is also a part of his appeal. (Imagine a member of Beach Boys getting “saved” and forming a megachurch!) He is always tan and he usually makes appearances in blue jeans, denim or leather jackets, sun glasses, and sneakers. Laurie is 67-years old, but he still exudes California cool. I mentioned that not only are we founded with revival, we need to have another revival.”
I don’t think we could have done it without it. He continued: “We were able to sow the seeds of this new nation in that receptive soil of morality based on a faith in God. “One of our founding fathers named George - not Washington but Whitefield, an evangelist from England - preached the Gospel and thousands of colonists came to faith in Christ and it brought about moral change in a culture as a revival always does,” Laurie said. Eighteen months earlier, Laurie was in the White House offering a “history” lesson to Trump, Mike Pence, Ben Carson, and more than 100 evangelical leaders invited as part of a “thank you” dinner for the support they gave to the president during the 2016 election campaign. It was not the first time the president heard him speak. On April 5, 2020, Donald Trump announced (via Twitter of course) that he would be streaming the Palm Sunday service at Greg Laurie’s Harvest Christian Fellowship, an evangelical megachurch in Riverside, California. Those who follow him down his path, be warned, it’s not a safe path.įor certain people have crept in unnoticed who long ago were designated for this condemnation, ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into sensuality and deny our only Master and Lord, Jesus Christ.Last week at the Sons of American Revolution conference on religion and the American Revolution, I started my keynote lecture this way: The charismatic persona of this man is very seductive and enticing–having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power (2 Tim 3:5). His gate is very wide, and wide is the gate that leads to destruction (Matthew 7:13). He is building the false kingdom and preparing the way for the harlot church to flourish. He has accumulated for himself teachers to suit his own passions (2 Tim 4:3). He does not distinguish himself from other false teachers or distances his message from other false gospels. Laurie has stopped preaching the full counsel of God. It’s this doctrinal shift and slide into apostasy that has caused John MacArthur to withdraw his endorsement from the Harvest Crusades. It’s about “uniting denominations” into a single, watered-down, inoffensive, ear-tickling, man-pleasing entertaining religion of harmonious solidarity. With Greg Laurie, it isn’t about sound doctrine and a solid Gospel message that saves–it’s about “filling the stadiums with youth” to “bring about revival.” It’s a numbers game. Laurie and his associates at Harvest do not see the damning doctrinal error that the false church of Rome adheres to. He also gave the stage to sedevacantist Roman Catholic, Mel Gibson, to promote his upcoming movie. Greg Laurie has admitted to involving Roman Catholic churches in his crusades. Their following essentially becomes a cult of personality, and their notoriety gains them indiscriminate immunity from nearly all criticism. Laurie’s popular style of watered-down preaching and making the adulterated Word of God more palatable to the world has helped his empire grow tremendously, and transform Laurie into a celebrity.Īs with nearly all celebrity Christian luminaries, there comes a time when the message they deliver has become so devoid of any convicting biblical substance that nearly anyone, whether they profess Christ or not, will be lured in by their seductive charisma. In the likeness of Billy Graham’s crusades, Laurie has invested endless efforts in his Harvest Crusades since the early 1990s, reaching audiences in the hundreds of thousands at every event. Many have touted him as being the next Billy Graham. He is the senior pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, CA, one of the largest churches in America. Greg Laurie has been a prominent figure in Christendom for quite some time.
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