For more than two decades, Jesus Culture has been one of the most influential voices in modern worship. Their songs have soundtracked countless Sunday mornings and global conferences, helping define what contemporary worship sounds and feels like. But for worship leader Lindsey Arcaro, Send the Fire, the band’s newest live album — recorded in partnership with Gas Street Music and KXC in London — represents something far deeper than a new setlist. It’s a witness to a move of God she can’t stop talking about.
When Arcaro describes what she saw in the U.K., she doesn’t talk like a recording artist promoting an album. She talks like someone who’s seen something she can’t quite get over.
“There’s a rumbling going across the whole nation,” she says. “People who’ve never gone to church are walking in because they felt led by the Lord. People are having dreams, getting saved. It’s like the ground itself is stirring.”
Jesus Culture has been traveling to the U.K. for years, but this trip felt different. The team wasn’t just showing up to play music — they were stepping into the prayers of pastors and leaders who’ve been quietly interceding for revival for decades.
“They walk their neighborhoods every day praying for their cities,” Arcaro says. “They’ve been tilling the soil for years, and now they’re starting to see the harvest.”
She pauses, her tone softening.
“England was the home of so much revival — the Welsh Revival, the Hebrides,” she says. “It feels like God’s bringing it back around. And I keep praying, ‘Lord, do it again here. Do it in America.’”
That longing for renewal became the heartbeat of the album, out today. Songs like Send the Fire and Be Thou My Vision are built less around performance and more around prayer — desperate, collective, deeply hopeful prayer. Arcaro calls worship “prayer set to melody,” and that’s exactly what these recordings sound like: hundreds of voices crying out in one direction.
Still, she’s quick to point out that the power behind those moments began long before anyone hit record.
“We want microwave results,” she says with a knowing laugh. “We think if we pray for two hours, revival should come. But the pastors we met in England — those men and women pray. Days, years, decades. That’s what tilling the soil looks like.”
Prayer, she says, has become the anchor of her life, too. Every morning after dropping off her kids, she and her husband spend an hour praying together.
“We start with repentance,” she says. “Psalm 51 — ‘Create in me a clean heart.’ We clear the airwaves between our heart and God’s heart. Then we ask for His heart. That’s what prayer really is: partnership with the Spirit of God for the advancement of His kingdom.”
During the London recordings, that partnership felt tangible. Arcaro remembers one of the first sets, when Derek Johnson and Marie Barton led No One Like the Lord.
“The presence of God just fell,” she says. “It was all anyone cared about — just Jesus. That’s revival. When nothing else matters.”
Later, when worship leader Tim Hughes led Send the Fire, Arcaro says the room erupted.
“You saw pastors crying out for their cities, for their families, for prodigal kids,” she recalls. “It was unity. It was declaration. Heaven just opened.”
But the moment that’s etched deepest in her memory came during Be Thou My Vision, recorded in a 17th-century church. The crowd — hundreds of pastors and leaders — sang words written more than a thousand years ago, their voices echoing off stone walls that had heard centuries of worship.
“It was holy,” she says. “In America, you drop a hymn and people are like, ‘I don’t really know that one.’ But in that place, those words carried history. When they sang, ‘Heart of my own heart, whatever befall,’ there was this resolve. We were wrecked.”
For Arcaro, revival isn’t about emotional highs or the right worship setlist. It’s transformation — something that starts quietly and changes everything.
“Revival is the Lord pouring out His Spirit in a way that draws the lost back to Him,” she says. “It’s people being delivered, serving the poor, caring for the widow and orphan. It’s believers so caught up in prayer they’re ruined for anything else.”
Back home in Atlanta, that conviction has only deepened. She’s quick to admit that distraction is one of the biggest threats to faith today — endless scrolling, endless noise.
“We need to be more prayerful instead of more fearful,” she says. “We need to consume God’s presence, not the news cycle. I don’t need to scroll for answers; I need to be on my face before Him.”
To stay centered, she keeps a yellow sticky pad next to her Bible to jot down the distractions that inevitably pop up.
“If I think of a dentist appointment mid-prayer, I just write it down,” she laughs. “The enemy wants you to think you can only pray when everything’s perfect. But that’s a lie. Just come. God’s not afraid of your distractions.”
That’s the spirit she hopes people feel when they hear the new album — that sense that God is just as present in your living room or car as He was in that cathedral.
“You don’t have to be in a conference to experience God’s presence,” she says. “He’s everywhere. He’s moving.”
And for anyone feeling numb or burned out, she points to one song in particular.
“Give Me Jesus,” she says softly. “When everything feels heavy, just pray that: You can have all this world, give me Jesus. Lock eyes with Him and let Him strengthen you. Because He’s the same yesterday, today and forever.”
She takes a breath before her final words — simple, but the kind of simple that’s been tested.
“There’s so much noise fighting for our attention,” she says. “But we need to pray like we actually believe God will move. Because He will.”