Christine Caine mobilizes people everywhere to live on mission for Jesus. She’s an evangelist and co-founded the anti-slavery organization A21 with her husband Nick.
She shared a powerful message at Beyond Us Conference in October 2025.
For 37 years and in 90 countries Christine has proclaimed the message of Jesus. There’s nothing more important than taking the gospel into all the world.
These are the last words of Jesus before the ascension.
“But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.” – Acts 1:8
We must need what we were promised we will receive in order to live out our calling.
We are to be his witnesses not just witnessing.
The Church is born in Acts 1-4!
The Church was born supernaturally! Acts 1-6
There were signs and wonders and people were dropping dead and selling their property! Amazing things were happening!
But there was a problem. They got really comfortable in Jerusalem.
What got them out of their comfort zone was the stoning of Stephen in Acts 7.
Persecution is not a bad thing!
When persecution happens, God is about to move!
“And Saul approved of their killing him. On that day a great persecution broke out against the church in Jerusalem, and all except the apostles were scattered throughout Judea and Samaria.” – Acts 8:1 NIV
The Church is being shaken because we need to go out and make disciples – which we were supposed to be doing all along.
There is always a Simon the sorcerer when the real gospel is going out.
There will always be a counterfeit running parallel to the true message of Jesus.
Are we going to follow the counterfeit or be afraid by the counterfeit or are we going to go out in the power and passion of the Holy Spirit!
Christine has seen God doing amazing things everywhere she’s gone this year (which has been 30 countries).
Passion is contagious!
Followers of Jesus need to have a zest of life and a zeal! Instead, too many believers are
We need a passion for Jesus, a passion for the Word, and a passion for the lost.
We ought to be the best at loving, understanding, and connecting with those without Jesus.
The lostology of the Bible is in Acts 15.
We shouldn’t be judging the lost.
1. The lost coin can represent those who were not cared for.
That was Christine’s story. As a child Christine was abused. She didn’t know she had been adopted until she was 33. By the time she discovered this she had been renewing her mind for 10 years with what’s true of her in Christ.
Jesus saved and rescued Christine so that she can be part of rescuing the enslaved today!
2. The lost sheep can represent those who are preoccupied with the distractions of the world.
3. The lost son thought that life without the father would be better than life with the father.
Jesus didn’t tell us to figure out why people are lost, but to love them and help them know him.
There are more people enslaved today than at any time in history.
Too often we are like the Levite and the priest who saw the man on the road as a distraction from their ministry rather than the one they should be ministering to.
Too often we don’t want to be interrupted or inconvenienced. Compassion is not compassion until we cross the street willing to give up our own time, treasure, and talent to serve those in need.
We have His power to be His witnesses!
Walk in love in a world of hatred.
Walk in joy in a world of depression.
Walk in peace in a world of anxiety.
We cannot do this on our own. We need to rely on Him!
We need a fresh wind of the Spirit in our mission work!
Christianity is not a behavior modification program!
We are to BE His witnesses.
We are “living epistles” – God’s love letter to the world.
When we are not about the Father’s business, we end up getting into other people’s business.
We become lost in our pursuit of our own selfish ambition, our religious rituals, our own self- righteousness, our factions, our distractions.
We are supposed to be in the world and not of it, but too often we are of it and not in it.
- Don’t buy into the narrative of the world.
- Be salt and light!
- Bring light to the darkness not add to the darkness.
Why are we so afraid of the darkness? We have the light of Christ within us!
We need to make Jesus’ last commandment our first priority!
We need to mobilize the Church to be about the Father’s business!
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