Louie Giglio

Passionate communicator and innovative thinker, Louie Giglio, began his ministry to college-age students at Baylor University when he established a campus-wide Bible study in 1985. Desiring to see spiritual awakening come to the college campuses around the nation and the world, Louie went on to launch the Passion Conferences in 1997.

Passion Conferences represent a movement that exists to glorify God and unite students in worship and prayer for spiritual awakening in this generation. The Passion movement is on the forefront of modern worship and is sweeping across the nation. As a part of the Passion movement, Louie also heads up Sixstep records, a partnership with Sparrow Records.

Desiring to reach across denomination and ministry lines, Louie began 7:22, a Bible study designed to reach and impact single adults in the metro Atlanta area. Functioning under the umbrella of the local church, 7:22 unites 3,000 singles weekly for worship and teaching.

Louie is the author of The Air I Breathe: Worship as a Way of Life and I Am Not but I Know I Am: Little Me, Infinite God, Amazing Life. In addition, Giglio has partnered with Bluefish TV on several video driven Bible studies for youth groups and young adults. Thousands of small groups have used the OUR JOURNEY video series which was filmed on location in Australia, India, and France.

Louie and his wife, Shelley, are members of North Point Community Church, where he occasionally speaks. They reside outside of Atlanta, GA.

Louie Giglio “Unplugged”

Our team has spent a lot of time working with Louie on various ministry projects. We asked him a few questions about Passion and walking with Christ. You can hear more from Louie by watching one of Bluefish TV’s video resources on the right.

Bluefish TV: As the founder of the Passion Movement, how do you describe the word ‘passion’?

Louie Giglio: Talking about passion is good for me because we have wrestled with this for a long time. We even struggle with calling our ministry ‘Passion’ because the world has basically ripped that word off. We have come to a definition that we have settled on in our ministry. It is not zeal, emotion, or hype. The definition goes like this, ‘Passion is the degree of difficulty that we are willing to endure to accomplish the goal.’ That is passion (the movement).

Bluefish TV: You stay pretty busy, how do you maintain a close relationship with the Lord in the midst of your schedule?

Louie Giglio: Let’s face it, who’s not busy? Who doesn’t have a day that isn’t congested and crammed? It’s not getting less in our days so we can have passion for God. It’s getting God in all the stuff of our day so that we can continue to fuel that relationship with Him.

Bluefish TV: How do you advise those who are struggling to walk with Christ?

Louie Giglio: If someone is saying, ‘I can live the Christian life,’ then I think that either they are not really striving for the things of God or they are not being honest. I think that once we are honest and we realize that we can’t pull this off, it brings us to the most amazing place; the place where we just surrender, we die to our own effort, to our sense of trying. God doesn’t want us to try. He just wants us to trust the life of Christ in us, to surrender to that. As we surrender and take steps of obedience to realize that Christ truly in us gives us the power to do what we could never to do by ourselves.

Bluefish TV: As you look to your future what do you see?

Louie Giglio: I have been a part of some amazing things in the Kingdom of God…I have seen some stuff that I couldn’t have dreamed of 15 years ago. But, I am telling you right here, in this moment, while we are sitting here shooting this interview, that I am just as much in this mode, Shelley and I both are, where we are saying, ‘God what do you have for us?’ The honest truth is that I don’t have a clue what I am going to be doing 12 months from now; much less 12 years from now. I think that the misconception that people in their 20s and young couples and families have is that you have got to know where everything is going and I just want to say to them, ‘no, you don’t.’ ‘You have to know God.’ If you know God, then that is all you have to know because He knows where he is going. That is good enough for me.