Louie Giglio and Passion

He was a campus minister at Baylor, and the gatherings kept growing. He met and married Shelley. They moved to Atlanta and the Passion movement has been going and growing ever since.

If you haven't heard of these amazing gatherings for college students, you have almost certainly heard the music from them. Somehow, Louie gathered together three of the most influential worship artists in English-speaking Christendom today: Chris Tomlin, Matt Redman and David Crowder. Along with several other great talents; Nathan and Christy Nockels (formerly Watermark) and Charlie Hall, and several others.

A few of the late high-schoolers went to OneDay 2003 (music here), and couldn't stop raving for weeks. I truly believe that God showed up and changed 40,000 lives that day.

We went to Passion 06 (DVD here); it was a beautiful gathering of people and messages and worship. The event climaxed with the raising of a gigantic tapestry cube, made up of the graffiti walls we'd been marking on for the last four days. It was the greatest visual worship I've ever seen...thousands of written verses, testimonies, praises from students all over the country. Take a look at this, especially from 5:40 onwards.

Passion is all about "big," so everything goes that way. It isn't an intimate gathering. But as an exclamation point in your life, it's hard to beat. I'm so glad that Louie had a vision, and has pursued it all these years. Pray for Passion, and pray for all those who will yet be a part of this life-changing movement. And if you can make it? Go. Be ready to weep.