I am blogging the 2012 Passion Conference being held at The Georgia Dome in Atlanta. I hope you will benefit from these notes if you were unable to attend or catch the sessions online. Check out my notes from the previous sessions as well.
[Session 1] Louie Giglio [Session 2] Beth Moore [Session 3] Christine Caine [Session 4] Francis Chan [Session 5] Ephesians Reading (Multiple Speakers [Session 6] Cause Representatives and [Session 7] John Piper.
Chris Tomlin and family are leading worship this morning.
Pre Speaking Song List:
1. Tomlin sings “Lay Me Down”
2. Tomlin sings “Jesus, Son Of God” with Christy Nockels
Louie Giglio walks out on stage to whistles and applause. It’s all about Jesus.
Session Notes: Louie Giglio
Louie: The candlelight prayer thing last night was… wow.
Louie: Before anything else, I just wanna make sure we’re ready to hear the voice of God, hear his word.
Louie: Thank you God for raising us up this morning. I pray that you breath out the heart of Jesus to Passion 2012 today.
Louie: Where we started was in Luke 7… I said if you could sum up #Passion2012 in a statement, it would be this.
Louie is telling a story about how #Passion2012 has changed the hearts of many GWCC employees. The presence of God is here.
Louie: So let’s all mark this down – When God comes, he’s not limited by walls, by job titles…
Louie: When God shows up everybody knows when God is in the house.
Louie: In real-time, you were talking to the world [two nights ago when #HowGreatIsOurGod was trending].
Louie: This morning CNN aired a piece about what #Passion2012 was doing with freedom. #CNN @CNN
Louie reads from Ephesians 6:19
Thank you @CNNFreedom for lifting up the cause of Freedom at Passion 2012
Louie: I’m not against education, I went to college for 6 solid years of my life. That’s what happens when you flunk out.
Louie: But here’s the problem – You are in a system that is setting you up for a not-yet-arrived-at destination.
Of note: #Passion2012 is the number two trending word WORLDWIDE right now.
Louie: Jesus has come on the scene, and he’s stretched out his hand and wrecked your funeral…
Louie: …and awakened you to the reality that God can do anything and everything
Louie: Jesus says, ‘I’m the one that’s gonna do something significant and I’m the one that’s gonna raise you from the dead.’
Louie: The plans and purposes of God are right now.
Louie: I think the first hurdle is brokenness. Adversity. Trial. Hardship. 
Louie gives a shout out to the Chick-fil-A bowl organizers for allowing #Passion2012 to set-up a bit in the Georgia Dome.
Louie: The Chick-fil-A logo was designed in 1964. The guy who created the logo is Louie Giglio – my Dad.
Louie: In April of 1995, my Dad died.
Louie: Within weeks after that moment, God [opened the doors of Passion]
Louie: Out of brokenness, fearlessness.
Louie: Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrows of healing.
Louie: Don’t let the enemy tell you that your brokenness is going to disqualify you from spreading the news of Jesus.
Louie: Can we just stick a pin in the balloon of what God’s will is for your life?
Louie: Ask God to give you the words to fearlessly proclaim the spirit of the gospel.
@LiveAtPassion — Thank you LiveAtPassion for lifting up the cause of #endslavery at #Passion2012 Via CNN Freedom Project
Louie: Ask God to give you the words to fearlessly proclaim the spirit of the gospel.
Louie: Go do whatever you’re wired up to do, but whatever you’re doing, make sure you’re doing it all in the name of Jesus.
Louie shows a NASCAR clip at #Passion2012
Louie: Trevor Bayne won the Daytona 500 at 20 years old.
Louie: After the race he said, I just want to give glory to Jesus.
Louie: Later that year, he got Lyme disease and was knocked out of contention for the rest of the year.
Louie: Trevor Bayne still loved Jesus.
Louie: Since we’ve started #Passion2012… you’ll be happy to know that Trevor Banye has been sitting right over there.
Louie: What are you waiting for?
Louie: You know how to minimize your fears? You maximize that one fear by saying I am chained to the unchain-able Jesus.
Louie shares the story of a girl who left #Passion2007 obliterated with a heart for the Lord.
Louie: Be fearless.
Louie: Boldly does not always mean Loudly.
Louie: Jesus fearlessly hung on the cross and proclaimed the mystery of the gospel.
Louie: Jesus, we humbly ask that you’d ignite and raise up out of the ashes and give beauty as the out-working expression of broken people.
Louie: … I pray today right now as we do raise our white flag that you would stretch back the bow…
Louie: …and that our white flag today would be us saying insert me as the arrow and fling me, Jesus, with healing for the whole world.
1. Chris Tomlin comes back out on stage and sings “I will follow you…” with #Passion2012
2. Christy Nockels sings a new song.
Nockels: Great God, wrap Your arms around this world tonight.
Louie is back on stage. “Do you guys want to hear some good news?
Shelley Giglio is on stage as well.
Louie thanks all the community group leaders.
Louie thanks the 2,000 door holders.
Louie thanks the world visitors from Uganda, South Africa, and Rwanda.
Louie asks #Passion2012 to partner with them to help fund the Passion gatherings in Vancouver, South Africa, Uganda, and Rwanda.
Passion will be BACK at The Dome in 2013… with full capacity seating: 71,228.
Shelley: Tiny Hands will build 8 border stations in Nepal so we can stop trafficking before it ever stops.
Shelley: Wellspring for Living will renovate 12 apartments for girls who have been rescued from trafficking.
Shelley: The Atlanta Project has $100k funding for the special task force for trafficking prevention, education, and rescue.
Shelley: Love146 will train a group of people who will raise up 12,060 rescused people from all over the world.
Louie: As Our Own will build an innovation center for girls born into brothels in India.
Louie: Night Light will provide employment for 15 women on the streets of Bangkok, Thailand.
Here is the @CNNFreedom video which aired earlier focusing on #Passion2012′s goal to #EndSlavery
Louie: You gave $2,566,670 this week to #EndSlavery
Louie: But Shelley, that’s not all…
Louie: You inspired a couple here at #Passion2012 to give… they gave $500,000 to #EndSlavery
Louie: With that couple’s generosity, the total amount given at #Passion2012 was $3,660,670
Louie: I love this, I love it all. Shelley and I love this guy (pointing to Chris Tomlin)
Louie: I know I probably shouldn’t say this, but I think the Tomlin baby might be a #Passion2011 baby.
Louie: Chris Tomlin has done a phenomenal job and I just want to say I love you.
Louie: It’s not about next year, it’s about now, so go do something now.
Louie: God bless you guys, we’ll see you here, we’ll you somewhere.
Kristian Stanfill sings “I’m Not Ashamed”.
Chris Tomlin sings “White Flag”
Thank you so much for all your mentions and re-tweets about #Passion2012 this week! It’s been an amazing journey! (Via: LiveAtPassion on Twitter)
