Leadership Summit Session 2b: Christine Caine

Known for her ability to communicate profound messages of hope and inspiration, Christine Caine has a heart for reaching the lost, strengthening leadership, championing the cause of justice, and building the local church globally. Part of the leadership team and pastor at Hillsong Church in Sydney, Australia for 20 years, she also directs Equip & Empower Ministries. Recently she founded The A21 Campaign, an organization dedicated to the care and healing of victims of human trafficking. An avid believer in the hope-giving power of the local church, she is the author of A Life Unleashed, Stop Acting Like a Christian—Just Be One; Run To Win, and her latest book, Can I Have (and do) It All, Please

Notes

• Girl who was rescued from human trafficking asked, “If what you’re telling me about your God is true, why didn’t you come sooner?”
• God is saying to His church, “It’s time to wake up!”
• There is so much hopelessness, it’s so difficult, its easy to feel overwhelmed, but this is the greatest hour for the church.  We were made for this moment in history.
• Told her story of abuse and adoption, and growing up as a poor, ostracized minority.
• If God could redeem me, he can do it for anyone.
• Numbers are de-humanizing.  Must put a name and a face to individuals suffering.
• The same power that raised Jesus from the dead lives on the inside of us.
• You do what you want out of passion.
• Hope fuels our risk-taking.
• John 17:15-18 – My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one. 16They are not of the world, even as I am not of it. 17Sanctify[b] them by the truth; your word is truth. 18As you sent me into the world, I have sent them into the world.
• The job of the church is not to run from the darkness but to bring the light of Christ into the darkness.
• Don’t lose hope!
• Our hope does not lie in our circumstances, resources, or position but it lies in Jesus.
• Phil 1:6 he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.

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