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gospel and clear repentance and faith. He never gave uphomosexuality and partying. Even aer he joined CalvaryChapel he would “party on Saturday night” and “preach onSunday.” He would “go out and boogie down.” It was allegedthat Frisbee’s ministry was accompanied by “signs andwonders” but the devil can do miracles, and when measuredby the standard of Scripture, Frisbee’s ministry wasdangerously heretical.Even so, Smith put Frisbee in charge of a Wednesday nightBible study, which soon attracted thousands (Randall Balmer,e Encyclopedia of Evangelism).at Frisbee had no spiritual discernment is evident in thathe appeared with the false prophetess Kathryn Kuhlman onher I Believe in Miracles show. Further, he lied on thatprogram by claiming that his sin had been totally washedfrom his heart by the “baptism of the Holy Spirit,” when heknew full well that he was still sinning secretly in the mostoutrageous manner. (is appearance can be found onYouTube.)By 1971, Chuck Smith parted company with Frisbeebecause of their different perspectives on Pentecostal signsand Smith’s desire to focus more on the teaching of Scripture.Smith was right to reject such things as “spirit slaying,” butthe wild “spirit” represented by Frisbee and his charismaticmysticism already had a massive influence in the Jesus Music,including Calvary Chapel’s Maranatha music, and thatinfluence has continued to this day.What Smith failed to renounce was Christian rock itselfwith its powerful, sensual mysticism and its illegitimatemerging of the unholy rock of this world with the holy RockChrist.Frisbee was divorced in 1973. His wife says,“At the end of the marriage he told me that he had been stayinglate in some gay bars” (Connie Bremer-Murray, Lonnie’s exwife,Special Features section of Frisbee: e Life and Death of aHippy Preacher).33