The Voices
Lou Engle
Lou Engle (born October 9, 1952) is an American Charismatic minister and the co-founder of TheCall — a global prayer-and-fasting movement that gathered hundreds of thousands across multiple continents (Washington DC stadium events 2000–2010s, plus subsequent international gatherings).
Short bio
Lou Engle (born October 9, 1952) is an American Charismatic minister and the co-founder of TheCall — a global prayer-and-fasting movement that gathered hundreds of thousands across multiple continents (Washington DC stadium events 2000–2010s, plus subsequent international gatherings). His ministry combines Nazirite consecration, sustained fasting (40-day Jesus-fast framework), prophetic intercession, and pro-life advocacy through Bound4Life. He was associated with IHOPKC's Mike Bickle (Tier 2) for years and is networked with the broader apostolic-prophetic-NAR stream. After TheCall name was retired, he founded Lou Engle Ministries (2018) continuing the fasting-and-prayer mobilization mission. He is one of the principal contemporary popular voices on extended-fasting and pro-life-prayer-activism.
What they believed
- Intercession as Co Laboring — Affirmed substantively; corporate intercession at stadium scale and sustained personal-and-team intercession are the operational expressions. TheCall framework treats intercession as kingdom-shaping co-laboring.
- Cessation — Strong continuationist; prophetic and apostolic offices operative.
- Holiness and Expectancy Frame — Affirmed substantively; the 40-day Jesus-fast framework is fundamentally about preparing the believer and the church for Christ's return through holiness, fasting, and prophetic readiness. Engle's "third-Great-Awakening" expectation operates within this frame.
- Justice Frame — Pro-life prayer-activism is integral to Engle's framework — Bound4Life's "silent siege" Supreme Court vigils, sustained prayer for end of abortion, advocacy for adoption. The justice-frame is specifically pro-life-intercession-centered.
- Fasting Purpose and Method — Extended fasting (40-day Jesus-fast model) is biblical, normative, and operatively significant for breakthrough — "40 days of prayer and fasting always precede breakthrough." Sustained fasting is the principal preparation discipline for the next-Great-Awakening generation.
- Identificational Repentance — Affirmed substantively; Engle's framework includes corporate identificational repentance for American historical sins (slavery, abortion, covenantal breaches) as essential intercession dimension.
Notable works
3 listed
| Title | Year | Description |
|---|---|---|
| The Jesus Fast: The Call to Awaken the Nations | 2015 | Engle's load-bearing articulation of the 40-day-fasting framework rooted in Jesus's wilderness fast. Standard text in the contemporary fasting-movement. |
| The Fast: Rediscovering Jesus' Pathway to Power | 2020 | Engle's mature articulation of the fasting framework. |
| TheCall stadium events archive | 2000 | Engle's primary public-ministry vehicle was sustained-prayer-and-fasting gatherings, not published books. |