Louie Giglio

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Leadership Profile
Intro
Louie Giglio, an Atlanta native and self-proclaimed introvert, holds global renown as a powerful speaker, authentic pastor, visionary architect, and director of a sizable ministry encompassing many branches, called the Passion Movement. His wife, Shelley, is a complimentary co-leader, and they work synergistically to manage and enhance all that is embodied within the Passion Movement. Louie and Shelley founded the Passion Movement in 1995, with a mission to reach college students around the nation and the world with the Gospel. They led the first Passion Conference in 1997, a convention for college-aged students from around the world to come together, worship Jesus, and raise awareness for social justice. Growing …show more content…

He advocates for his followers to be part of community groups, which are smaller groups of people who regularly attend Passion City Church, who meet together around the city in homes to study the Bible and enjoy fellowship with others. Louie also places high value on his elder team, a group of men, some of whom have served faithfully for many years. They act as an advisory board for the church management, and a sounding board for new ideas and plans. Louie has cultivated strong relationships with these men, as a result of mutual relational transparency and empathy. Through the challenging situations and the good times, the leaders of the church have a community they can lean on. In putting value on these relationships, Louie is living what he encourages others to do. He displays consistency between his words and his actions, thus creating a more authentic environment in which the followers can see the veracity of Louie’s …show more content…

263). Emotional healing is a concept that is not often talked about, but feeling whole as an individual person is crucial to living a fulfilling and productive life. Louie’s servanthood in leadership creates an environment conducive to emotional healing. Listening to Louie explain the truths of the Bible, people to feel comfortable enough to start to uncover the fragments of the emotional and spiritual elements of their lives. Caring for others is something Louie does well, but only by God’s grace, as he accentuates throughout his speaking and as a theme all through The Comeback. Giglio explains that complete healing does not take place through a human leader like himself, but through surrender to God, and His larger canvas that is

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