Brent Higginson was born in 1952 in Lakewood, California, into a home that gave him little to hold on to. His stepfather was sharp and critical, the kind of voice that tells a boy again and again that he cannot do anything right, that he is good for nothing. Brent went looking for something better in the only places the 1960s seemed to offer it.
Searching in All the Wrong Places
The counterculture of Southern California pulled him in. There were drugs, including LSD. There was eastern mysticism. There was rebellion against everything. Brent was chasing transcendence, some experience large enough to fill the hole inside him, and none of it held.
The Power He Could Not Deny
Then he went out to Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, at the height of what would later be called the Jesus Movement. He could feel the power of the Spirit moving through the room. There was an unmistakable anointing on Lonnie Frisbee, an almost mystical, powerful move of the Holy Spirit unlike anything the drugs had ever counterfeited.
When the altar call came, Brent was one of the hippies who walked forward. He repented, and he gave his life to Jesus.
Changed, 100 Percent
What followed was a complete transformation. By his own account, he just completely changed, 100 percent. The restlessness that had driven him through LSD and mysticism had finally found its end in Christ. In time Lonnie Frisbee came back from Florida and lived with Brent and a few others from the church, a small band of new believers learning to walk out the transformation Jesus had begun. The young man once told he was good for nothing had become a new creation.
