CNLP 747 | Revival Series Pt. 3 | Revival Broke Out at Saddleback: Andy Wood and Luke LeFevre on How Far the Church In America Has Fallen and the Way Back
The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
Carey Nieuwhof
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🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 109 minutes
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Summary
In Part 3 of our Revival series, Andy Wood (Lead Pastor of Saddleback Church) and Luke LeFevre (A Gen Z preacher who works with the Gather movement) discuss a prophetic word Luke received about an outpouring of the Spirit at Saddleback church.
They discuss the prophetic word, what actually happened, how God is moving at Saddleback, and the implications for every pastor in America who leads large or small churches.
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| 0:00.0 | The Art of Leadership Network. |
| 0:02.9 | I think I might ruin Saddleback Church. |
| 0:06.0 | Like, I think I might. |
| 0:07.4 | Either I'm going to get fired or God's really going to show up. |
| 0:11.5 | And it's going to be a defining moment. |
| 0:13.2 | It's like there's no in between. |
| 0:14.5 | This is not going to be a middle ground. |
| 0:16.1 | So I felt, carry a huge sense of desperation coming into that moment. |
| 0:26.3 | Welcome to the Carrie Newhoff Leadership Podcast. |
| 0:28.5 | Is Carrie here? |
| 0:29.1 | I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership. |
| 0:31.7 | We are in the middle of our revival series. |
| 0:34.1 | And this is kind of the hinge point. |
| 0:35.9 | If you have missed episodes one and two, you might |
| 0:38.1 | want to go back and check them out. I decided to do this series because things are changing in |
| 0:42.5 | real time. Every once in a while, you get a year where you can just feel the change in the air |
| 0:47.5 | and not just in the air in the statistics. The revival is real among Gen Z, among, you know, |
| 0:53.6 | Gen Alpha. |
| 0:58.1 | Yeah, we still got a generation in retreat, but there's movement and momentum on the ground. |
| 1:00.1 | And I want to get to the bottom of it. |
| 1:01.4 | So that's what this series is about. |
| 1:04.7 | Today, we talk to Luke Lefevre and Andy Wood. |
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