![]() ![]() He claims he became a Christian while reading the Gospel of John on an LSD-induced high while on a “vision quest” near Palm Springs, California. A “spiritual seeker,” Frisbee would often read the Bible while tripping on LSD. It is, then, perhaps no surprise that Frisbee’s conversion to Christ included unusual circumstances. He was raped at age eight, often ran away from home as a child, and was in and out of school so much that he barely learned to read or write. He described himself as a “nudist, vegetarian hippie.” His rootlessness may have been a result of a dark home life when he was a child. ![]() He was in San Francisco during the famous 1967 “Summer of Love,” and even then, at age 18, he was a compelling figure, winning awards for his painting and becoming known in the “gay underground” for his dancing and bohemian attitudes and profligate drug use. Lonnie Frisbee was a quintessential baby-boomer, born in 1949 and fully immersed in the hippie movement of the 1960s. And in the way evangelical leaders dealt with him we see a pattern of cover-up that extends even to today.īut to understand that, a bit of his biography is helpful. ![]() There’s no doubt that he is the man who put the “freak” in “Jesus Freak.” And in his life we see some of the best and worst of evangelicalism. Lonnie Frisbee is a name mostly lost to history, but he could be one of the most influential persons in the modern evangelical movement. Editor’s Note: Lonnie Frisbee was born on June 6, 1949. ![]()
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