CNLP 745 | Revival Series Pt. 1 | Inside the Asbury Outpouring: Zach Meerkreebs on the Sermon that Sparked Revival, Miracles, and Gen Z's Spiritual Awakening
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 5 August 2025
⏱️ 95 minutes
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Summary
In our Revival Series opener, Zach Meerkreeb shares the backstory of the Asbury Outpouring sparked by his sermon, which didn't go particularly well.
He explores Gen Z's unique spiritual awakening, the power of humility and confession, and offers guidance for church leaders who want to see revival in their churches.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.8 | We had this basketball player who was kind of bad news. |
| 0:05.8 | He ends up giving his life to the Lord and walking out of the room and running into a man in a wheelchair with some tumors that you could see around his face. |
| 0:15.4 | He tells the story. He's like, I grabbed my girlfriend and I had seen it happening. |
| 0:20.2 | And now I was a believer so I can pray for him. |
| 0:23.7 | And he prayed for this guy and this guy was healed. |
| 0:28.1 | Like visibly his face is different. |
| 0:30.2 | Visibly tumors disappear. He's out of his wheelchair. |
| 0:33.8 | And this is a basketball player who had known Jesus for 30 minutes and had been that guy did not know better. |
| 0:42.5 | He just didn't know better. |
| 0:48.4 | Welcome to the Kerry Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:50.6 | It's Carrie here. |
| 0:51.2 | I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 0:54.4 | Man, I've been excited for this moment for a while. We've got a brand new series here on the |
| 0:57.9 | podcast. It's on Revival. And, you know, I do church trends every year and my number one church |
| 1:04.2 | trend for 2025 was that Gen Z is in revival and retreat. And I believe that's shifting to |
| 1:09.5 | revival. Yeah, we got meta trends, but like there is now |
| 1:12.4 | data to back up and more and more phenomena, stories, experiences of what's happening. So here's what I |
| 1:18.8 | wanted to do with this series. I wanted to just gather some of the leading voices on the revival |
| 1:25.7 | from all over the place, from the UK, from the US, and what more interesting |
| 1:30.8 | place to start than Asbury. I think we all watched in February of 2023 when there was an |
| 1:36.2 | outpouring at Asbury. It was a global phenomenon, made all the news. Zach Meerkriebs preached |
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