Five years later, in 1977, Lennon became deeply moved by NBC’s broadcast of the movie Jesus of Nazareth and told his friends that he had become a born-again Christian. A week after seeing the film, Lennon returned to church on Easter Sunday with his wife Yoko and son Sean in tow.
It was during this time that Lennon even penned several Christian songs (“Talking with Jesus” and “Amen”), and according to Turner’s book, even called The 700 Club prayer line.
http://www.cbn.com/entertainment/Books/carey_john_lennon.aspx
Unfortunately, Lennon was killed two years later.
It would have been interesting to hear what his opinion is about what his song has become...
> “Five years later, in 1977, Lennon became deeply moved by NBC’s broadcast of the movie Jesus of Nazareth and told his friends that he had become a born-again Christian.”
I did not know that John had seen Franco Zefferelli’s ‘Jesus of Nazareth’; that explains a lot.
Zefferelli’s ‘Jesus of Nazareth’ is a masterpiece bar none. Nothing comes close to it. All other Jesus movies seem as garbage compared to it. It’s actually a mini-series that is about 6.5 hours long. I’ve written about it on FR when people were posting about ‘Son of God’ which is just another awful Jesus movie. Franco’s Jesus of Nazareth captured the true heart of the Lord. It’s online for free but best to purchase a high quality unedited version on Amazon.