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?C
- Human beings are being trafficked in containers across the world and sold for sex.
- From trafficked girl: If your God is real and loving, why wouldn’t your God come sooner?
- Why has it taken so long for the Church to come to rescue?
- We have a generation that is crying out that is asking for hope.
- There are people in all of our nations and cities that are crying out for hope.
- Ephesians 5:14
- On the earth there’s a divine recalibration happening.
- God is waking up His Church.
- We live in a world and generation filled with hopelessness.
- This is greatest hour for the Church to bring light, life, love, hope and liberty to the broken world.
- We serve a redeeming and restoring God.
- When all of the world is wondering we have the hope living in this inside of us.
- Jesus Christ is the hope of the world and His Church is the vehicle to take that hope to the world.
- Hope is like oxygen for leaders.
- As church leaders, we have a responsibility to lead people from a place of hope.
- Jesus is still in the business of saving people.
- People will follow our cue.
- What hope does the world have if we don’t have hope?
- The truth of the word of God is more powerful than the facts.
- Ephesians 2:10
- If there is hope for someone like me, there’s hope for everyone.
- We don’t have to live is victims anymore.
- The truth will set you free.
- Hope is not wishful thinking.
- Hope is confident expectation.
Maintaining Hope
- We maintain hope by focusing on one.
- In the midst of our dreams we have to remember it’s all about one.
- Big numbers are numbing and dehumanizing.
- It’s easy to ignore suffering, not get involved and feel hopeless when something is nameless and faceless.
- Everything changes when you give something a name and a face.
- We will not be able to fuel hope when we communicate numbers.
- We need to break down the number.
- Translate hope from nameless, faceless numbers to a person.
- Jesus inside of us can make such a difference.
- The same power that raised Jesus from the dead is living inside of us.
- Passion fuels your hope.
- Without passion we cannot do anything.
- Most of us are leading because God has done a great work in us and we want to see that translated into other people’s lives.
- We do what we want from passion.
- When our leadership steps from passion to obligation we’ve lost hope.
- While we have passionate hope, it will carry us beyond ourselves, our ability, talents, etc.
- Hope fuels our risk-taking.
- When you have no hope you play it safe.
- The day and hour we live in, the Church is called to go places we’ve never been before and take a risk.
- We oftentimes avoid the context where miracles can happen.
- We need to take risks.
- We need to step into the darkness and bring light.
- God is calling us to go to places we’ve never been on pathways we didn’t know existed.
- We don’t need to fear the world or the darkness, the hope we have is an anchor for our soul and compels us to go into the darkness.
- The purpose of light is to illuminate the darkness, that’s the job of the Church!
- It doesn’t take much light to break the darkness, you just have to take the risk to go into it.
- Don’t lose hope!
- Zachariah 9:12
- We need to be prisoners of hope… our stronghold is Jesus.
- Our hope is not in the size of our churches, what we have, what we do, etc.
- Our hope rests in Jesus Christ.
- We need to have an unshakable confidence in God.
- In hope, Abraham believed.
- The Bible is full of examples of people who were facing impossible situations who had hope.
- What is impossible with men is possible with God.
- We are on the winning side.
Jesus is an anchor for our soul.
Philippians 1:6 – Jesus who started this awesome work in us shall bring it to completion
http://www.timschraeder.com/2010/08/05/leading-on-the-edge-of-hope-christine-caine/
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