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Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

You Can Share the Gospel—Even If You’re the Least Likely

Greg Laurie: A New Beginning

Greg Laurie

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2025

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

In this interview from the archives, Pastor Greg Laurie sits down with Hugh Hewitt to open up about his upbringing, running into the gospel at 17 on a high school campus, and becoming a successful evangelist, despite being the last person many would have expected.

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0:00.0

What are you looking for in life? Peace, purpose, hope? What if I told you that one night could change everything?

0:09.2

Hundreds of thousands of people have had their lives transformed and their hope restored at these events that we call Harvest Crusades.

0:16.7

And I want to personally invite you for a special one-night event that we call Hope for America on November 16th at Utah Valley University.

0:27.5

Discover how you can have a personal relationship with God through Jesus Christ.

0:32.7

So if you know someone who needs to hear this, invite them.

0:36.3

Better yet, bring them at Utah Valley University.

0:39.9

Go to Harvest.org for more information.

0:44.6

It's a very special hour for me because my guest doesn't even know this. I don't think Greg

0:49.8

Lori knows this. But 20 years ago this month, I made my first television special ever about Greg

0:57.9

Lori and the Harvest Crusade. Until that time, I'd only done studio work for KCET in Los Angeles.

1:02.8

He said, why don't you go out and make a movie, a 30-minute program about Greg Lorry's Harvest

1:07.1

Crusade? They thought it was kind of weird that tens of thousands of people were shown up in Angel Stadium.

1:11.6

So I took a camera crew down there, Greg Lorry, and you were my first subject for my first ever television documentary. You know, I remember that, and that was fantastic. It was a great show. How are you? I'm great, and you look the same. Oh, no, I don't. I have white hair. You look the same. My hair is white. If we went back and looked at the 1992 show, I would have brown hair, not white hair.

1:30.2

One of the advantages I have white hair. You look the same. My hair is white. If we went back and looked at the 1992 show, I would have brown hair, not white hair. One of the advantages of being bald is you just look the same from year to year. So it's like you age ahead of everyone, but then you kind of go into freeze frame and everyone else catches up. You know, Greg, Lord, you have been making bald jokes for two decades that I've known you. Have you, like, got a list of them in your office somewhere? Probably somewhere. Greg Lorry, let's walk through the history of Greg Lorry and Harvest, and that starts with the history of Greg Lorry. Of course, when I made that movie about you, you were 10 at the time. Yes, it was. But give people the Greg Lorry story.

2:01.7

Well, I'm probably the least likely guy you would ever expect to be an evangelist, and then again, maybe I'm the most likely guy.

2:08.4

Let me explain.

2:09.3

I wasn't raised in a Christian home.

2:11.0

My mom was married and divorced seven times.

2:13.8

She was like this Marilyn Monroe lookalike.

2:17.2

And so I was raising this crazy lifestyle with her.

2:21.0

You know, she was a raging alcoholic. And so I had to grow up fast, too. And I had to learn to fend for

2:26.0

myself. I never really was taken to church. I never heard about Jesus. But I always believe there

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