Louie Giglio challenges ‘sin-fueled’ tradition at Ardour 2025
“We have been immersed in a sin-fueled, secular worldview that tells us life is all about us,” Pastor Louie Giglio declared to 1000’s of college college students at Ardour 2025 in Atlanta this week. “However the fact is, it is not about us. It is all about God.”
Talking at State Farm Area, Giglio, the 66-year-old chief of Ardour Metropolis Church in Atlanta, urged college students to reject the pervasive cultural narrative that elevates self above all else.
The favored Christian writer warned that this mindset has infiltrated not simply society but in addition religion practices, typically making God a supporting character in individuals’s lives.
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“God is on name for us versus we’re on name for God. The Church exists for God, not for us. And the query we must always ask shouldn’t be, ‘Did I prefer it?’ however, ‘God, did You prefer it?'”
“No matter you eat or drink or no matter you do, do all of it for the glory of God,” he mentioned. “It isn’t about what you do — it is about why you do it.”
“After we discuss God’s glory, we’re speaking about the truth that God has the burden, that He is not flimsy, He is not tin foil, He is not short-term, He is not a light-weight. He is the heavyweight. He is the burden of weights. He is heavy, His substance, His being. He has intrinsic weight and price.”
All through his message, Giglio, who based Ardour in 1997, emphasised the centrality of God’s glory in all issues. “We are able to preach, however until there’s revelation, it is only a message,” he mentioned. “If there’s revelation, then there’s transformation.”
Giglio shared the story of how the Ardour Motion started, rooted in a second of non-public revelation whereas studying Isaiah 26:8: “Sure, Lord, strolling in the way in which of your fact, we wait eagerly for you; to your identify and renown are the need of our souls.”
“That verse exploded off the web page,” he recalled. “It was as if the all-consuming calling on our lives collided with this life-transforming revelation. All the pieces exists for the glory of God, and Ardour exists to proclaim that.”
Giglio recounted the OneDay 2000 gathering in Memphis, the place 40,000 college students prayed for an awakening of their technology.
“It was one of the vital holy moments I’ve ever been part of,” he mentioned. “We thought that was it, only a spark for awakening. However right here we’re, 27 years later, and the fireplace hasn’t gone out.”
On the coronary heart of Giglio’s message was a problem for college kids to shift their focus from self to God. He described how tradition’s self-centeredness has crept into worship and religion practices, main many to view God as current for his or her profit fairly than the opposite approach round.
“If we’re not cautious, God is on name for us versus we’re on name for God,” he warned. “That God is orbiting in our universe, versus we’re orbiting in God’s universe. Church, if we’re not cautious, this similar view of ‘it is all about me’ seeps within the church.”
“The perfect information on this planet is, it is not about me,” he added. “If one thing shifted for you tonight should you’re able to make that 180, stand the place you might be. Let’s declare collectively that our lives are all about Him.”
As college students throughout the world stood in response, Giglio prayed over them.
“Could your life be a testomony to the burden and price of God,” he said. “Could every thing you do level to His glory.”
Giglio closed by reflecting on the overarching goal of the Ardour Motion.
“Ardour exists for the glory of God,” he mentioned. “And once we get to Heaven, we can’t remorse making our lives about His identify and renown. That might be our everlasting music.”
“The Cross exists for the glory of God,” Giglio added. “Each miracle, each second, each breath — all of it exists for Him.”
“You might be small,” Giglio continued, “however you might be fiercely liked by God. He loves you a lot that He needs to be every thing — the middle of every thing in you. If He’s, you’ll have what He is all the time wished you to have: the perfect, not the remainder.”
Half one in all Ardour 2025, geared towards 18-25-year-olds, was held Jan. 2-4, with half two held Jan. 6-8. This yr’s convention theme is “For His Renown” and featured Sadie Robertson Huff, Jackie Hill Perry, Jonathan Pokluda and others, with music from Brooke Ligertwood, Kari Jobe, Cody Carnes, KB and Ardour Music.
Leah M. Klett is a reporter for The Christian Submit. She will be reached at: [email protected]
