Directory of Contemporary Worship Musicians - Way of Life Literature

named Lonnie Frisbee, Chuck Smith baptized massivenumbers of hippies who had professed Christ, many of them“led to the Lord” by Frisbee. By accepting the young peoplepretty much as they were even for Christian service--longhair, immodest clothing, rock & roll, culturally liberalthinking--Calvary Chapel exploded in growth from one smallchurch to a mega-church and beyond to a large association ofchurches.“With his long brown hair, long scraggily beard, dustyclothing, scent of Mary Jane [marijuana] and glint of his lastLSD trip in his eyes, Frisbee showed up out of nowhere ...literally on Chuck Smith’s doorstep” (Matt Coker, OrangeCounty Weekly, March 2005).Chuck Smith was a licensed minister in the FoursquarePentecostal Church, the denomination founded by femalePentecostal preacher Aimee Semple McPherson. Smith heldto the heresy of gibberish tongues speaking.Frisbee was “commissioned” by Smith aer his wife, Kay,received a “prophecy.”“e Spirit of God came through a prophecy with Kay Smithand said, ‘Because of your praise and adoration before Mythrone tonight, I’m gonna bless the whole coast of California.’And when we started to receive the word as from God, theSpirit of the Lord fell upon us and we began to weep and theLord began to give people visions of that prophecy and thenthe Lord continued on to say that it was going to move acrossthe United States and then go to different parts of theworld” (David DiSabatino, Frisbee: e Life and Death of aHippy Preacher).Maranatha Music was built upon this unscripturalfoundation. In those days, at least, Calvary Chapel was quickto accept the flimsiest “profession” and wasn’t careful to try toascertain whether the hippies were truly born again. eyencouraged the newest babes in Christ (assuming they wereeven saved) to perform music.29