Jill (Church Staff or Host) (2:41)

You let me win a lot, babe.

Worship Leader or Host (2:44)

Tell. Tell the church what's about to happen.

Jill (Church Staff or Host) (2:47)

So I, Church family, it is an exciting weekend for us. This is a first for us as a Red Rocks church family. And I cannot wait. So we. And I know you're going to want to clap loud and crazy and scream and all the things so it for a minute because.

Worship Leader or Host (3:07)

But when our friend comes up here, Red Rocks church, you better get on your feet and go bananas and give a Red Rocks welcome. Deal. All right, all right, all right.

Christine Kane (3:16)

Go ahead.

Jill (Church Staff or Host) (3:17)

So we get to hear from the one and only Christine Kane this weekend. I know, I know you love.

Pastor Sean (3:26)

Get ready to live.

Jill (Church Staff or Host) (3:28)

So church family, I don't know if you know or not who is going, who is in the house and going to be speaking to us, but this woman has preached around the world. Her and her husband both have done such amazing things with the holy spirit at the helm. They started, they started 821, which is an anti human trafficking organization. And they are working hard and successfully to end modern day slavery here and around the world. It's incredible. Talk about miracles. This couple has experienced the living God. They have seen miracle after miracle after miracle and they, they, they have so much, so much rich richness to share with us. Christine and her husband Nick have served the local church for over 30 years here and around the world. That's a big deal. Christine speaks to thousands.

Christine Kane (4:32)

Thousands.

Jill (Church Staff or Host) (4:33)

And it's just so exciting because they, the Lord. She has labored over the word of God and the Lord has revealed himself in such a rich, deep, insightful way again and again and again. And we get to experience that word, that revelation this weekend. We cannot wait. Christine, thank you. We would love to have you come on up here.

Pastor Sean (4:55)

Church, the one and only.

Jill (Church Staff or Host) (4:58)

We have Christine and Nikki.

Pastor Sean (5:10)

Well, church, how y' all doing? You can be seated.

Christine Kane (5:16)

I am so fired up to be here. I'm gonna take Jill on the road with me to introduce me before I speak everywhere. Because after that introduction, I cannot wait to hear myself speak.

Pastor Sean (5:27)

I'm like, okay, that is awesome.

Christine Kane (5:30)

And I, I'm just so thrilled to be here. And in all of our locations, you're kind of like rabbits. You just like multiply. Like, you know, it's just there's another campus and we're in Brussels and Austin and I just am so honored to be here. I am here with the single most ravishing piece of masculine flesh on Planet Earth. Pastor Sean. I'm talking about my husband Nick.

Pastor Sean (5:50)

I'm talking. I'm talking about my husband Nick.

Christine Kane (5:54)

We've been married next.

Pastor Sean (5:55)

Next month.

Christine Kane (5:56)

We've been married for 30 years.

Pastor Sean (5:58)

So how is that.

Christine Kane (6:00)

And it was the love of my life. Nick is. Nick is number 12 of 13 children. And y' all are hilarious. All the women just cross their legs in the. I'm sure on all of our campuses, you're like, no, that ain't gonna happen. Get thee behind me. So. But his mother actually had 15 full term pregnancies in 17 years. There was no television in that part of Australia, just in case you're all wondering. And I'm sort of glad she didn't stop at 13. And so my mother in law, she never thought that you were a woman until you kind of like popped out 10 kids. And so we've got our eldest, Katherine Bobby, who is 23, and Sophia Joyce, who's 20. And I would take my two daughters to my mother in law's house. And I would say, this is Catherine Bobby, and she is my alpha. And this is Sophia Joyce, and this is the Omega. And this is the beginning and the end of my childbearing years. And so, you know, I didn't have my first till 35 and my second till 40, so I was, you know, not looking to have 17 of them. And I'm Greek. Has anyone seen my big fat Greek wedding? Okay, that is my big fat Greek life. So if you give me a word, any word, I will tell you the origin of that word is Greek. And Nick and I still have Windex in every room of the house. But anyway, I'll say that to go. Now that my daughter's 23, she our elder, she graduated from Pepperdine last May, and she was suffering for Jesus over there in Malibu for four years. She was like, here I am, Lord, send me to the nations. And so I. And then she went down to Argentina and she's back up now, serving with us at 8. 21. And so I am a Greek mama, so that means I'm into arranged marriages. So when I travel and she's not with me, I'm like the Greek mother that's just putting her out there. Just. Okay, so this is what I want you to know. Since Catherine was in utero, I would lay my hands on her and say, catherine, Bobbi, you are the head and not the tail. You are above only and not beneath. You are a leader and not a follower. You're a woman of God. You're a woman of prayer. You are a Holy Ghost terrorist and you love the house of God. You love to worship God. And you are going to grow up and marry a very, very, very wealthy Christian man. I've told her that since she was in my womb. I say that to you to go. If anyone here has a son, a nephew, a cousin, a brother that fits that criteria, if you just give their name to Jill, she will vet them to make sure they're not a psycho. And then I'm telling you, it's open. Anyway, so that's our eldest and our second born, Sophia Joyce is at, in Paris studying comparative literature and studying screenwriting. And so she's a great, great writer. And so she is, I called her, she's like, mommy, I can't speak to you right now because I'm just watching the sunset over Notre Dame while I'm eating a croissant. I'm like, sweetheart, if you want to watch that same sunset next semester with your fees paid, you'll talk to your mother right now. That's actually what you're going to be doing right at this moment.

Pastor Sean (8:57)

And so that will be the deal.

Christine Kane (8:59)

So they're the delight and the love of our life and I'm just so, so grateful. I love being a mum. And I want to tell you about this because over here I have my very dear friend Andrew, who is my publisher. And I'm like, okay, I've got to get this right today. So y', all, he's gone to a lot of effort for this. This is why I'm doing this. In nine days or ten days. There is my brand new book is coming out called the Faith to Flourish and I am very excited. I don't know, I have written a lot of books, but the timing of this, because I don't, I mean you are mostly in Colorado and so our campuses, so you know, you're, you're more sane over here. But have you noticed that the rest of the world has lost its ever loving mind? And I say that tongue in cheek, but anyway, everybody has lost their mind. And the darkness is only getting darker. There is no doubt about it. And yet you and I, as followers of Jesus in the midst of darkness, are called to flourish. David. The whole book is predicated on Psalm 92:8 where David was being chased by a Saul. I mean, Doeg was coming after him, had betrayed him and slandered him, had lied about him. They had, you know, wiped out 85 of the priests. It was dark. It was as dark and so much demonic activity was happening as it is today, we have so much injustice on the earth, we are rescuing the victims of human trafficking. I couldn't even publish the kind of stories that I read with the amount of evil and depravity in the world. And so in the midst of that, so many people are fainting, so many people are thinking like, you know, what is going on in the world? Is this it? And yet David, in the midst of that adversity, says, but I am like a green olive tree flourishing in the house of God, you know, depending on the faithful love of God forever. And right from Genesis 1:27, you and I were created by God in the image of God to have dominion, to go forth, to multiply, to flourish in new covenant. Jesus said, I came that you might have life. And guess what kind of life he came that we might have, that it would be abundant life. Not a pain free life, not a suffering free life, not an avoidance of what is going on in the world life, but in the midst of, of the darkness. The greatest apologetic for the church of Jesus Christ in the 21st century is that we would show a world what flourishing is in the midst of darkness and depravity. Truly we are called to flourish in the house of our God. So I was so excited, I mean, truly, you know, 40 years almost of serving Jesus. I'm 60 this year. And I'm so excited about that because I'm celebrating every single day. I am not just having one birthday. If you live this long, you get 365 days. And I love gifts, send me lots of them. And I'm doing 60 things I've never done before. So in January, you know, I mean, well, even at Passion this year, I'd never spoken in like a baseball field before, so that was pretty huge. And then I ate whataburger and I'm from. And I'm like, what a burger? I am from California, in and out forever. That's all I'm saying.

Pastor Sean (11:52)

But I did it. Cause I said I'm doing 60 things.

Christine Kane (11:54)

And then we went to Alaska and I slept in an igloo. That was a once and done, but I did it and saw the northern lights and we've got a whole lot of things. Cause I just think life with Jesus ought to get better and better. I do not want you young people to think that we're serving Jesus for 40 years and that we get more depressed the longer we go on. I mean, what are you even talking about? I don't know how you can fix your eyes on the author and perfecter of our faith. And, you know, some people are like,

Pastor Sean (12:19)

well, you know, I've been in the way for 50 years.

Christine Kane (12:21)

And I'm like, get out of the way. Anyway, so they look like. I'm like, what is your problem? I want to be like super granny for Jesus. I think we ought to have a spring in our step, a little glint in our eye.

Pastor Sean (12:31)

You know, nothing immoral or illegal or

Christine Kane (12:34)

heretical, but just naughty.

Pastor Sean (12:35)

I just think there ought to be something.

Christine Kane (12:37)

People ought to go, what are you smoking? I mean, I'm in Colorado, but anyway,

Pastor Sean (12:40)

so it could be. But let me just say, there ain't

Christine Kane (12:43)

no high like, the most high. I'm telling you, it gets better and better and better and better as you walk in with Jesus. There is no doubt about that. Stop distracting me. So that's like, if you're sending presents, I'm 60. But I want you to know that you can flourish. And I just believe as every decade goes on, we ought to be flourishing even more. All that to go to you, that I will be signing in this service because this is. I say all this because Andrew's here in the front row. Our publishers have. What they have given me is if you pre order this, because I said it comes out in 10 days. If you pre order this now, and there is a code up there that you can do all the things that we do in the 21st century to do that, then I have got a galley copy to give you for free outside of. And I think on all of our campuses, it's there because I would love you to give one to someone. I'm going to be here signing that one after this service. So for only the time that I'm here at Red Rocks this weekend, you pre order now, and you get a galley copy as well. And you'll still get this in the mail in 10 days time. And I am just believing that God, we need to wake up the body of Christ again to want to flourish. We have been languishing for too long. We've got too many people. Well, you know, life was okay before COVID There was a day that B.C. stood for before Christ, not before COVID And so I just want us to be found in Christ again and flourishing in Christ because our world needs us to do that. You got me fired up now. Turn with me to the Gospel of Luke. Luke, did you see that? Oh, the boss of my publisher's like, what, are you throwing those books away?

Pastor Sean (14:12)

Okay, Luke, chapter seven.

Christine Kane (14:15)

This is the word of the Lord. It says when he had concluded saying all this to the people who were listening, he entered Capernaum. A centurion servant was highly valued by him, was sick and about to die. When the centurion heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, requesting him to come and save the life of his servant. When they reached Jesus, they pleaded with him earnestly, saying, he's worthy for you to grant this because he loves our nation and has built us a synagogue. Jesus went with him, and when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to tell him, lord, don't trouble yourself, since I am not worthy to have you come under my roof. That is why I didn't even consider myself worthy to come to you. But say the word and my servant will be healed. For I too am a man placed under authority, having soldiers under my command. I say to this one, go. And he goes, and to another, come. And he comes. And to my servant do this. And he does it. Jesus heard this and was amazed at him. And turning to the crowd following him, he said, I tell you, I have not found so great a faith that even in Israel, when those who had been returned had been sent returned to the house, they found his servant in good health. I love this text. Jesus had just finished preaching the Sermon on the Mount and was coming back to his ministry headquarters in Capernaum. The Jewish elders are coming out to him, and there was a centurion. A centurion is like a captain of the army and had 100 men roughly under his purview. And centurions were placed by the Roman Empire throughout Israel for. For two primary reasons, really. It was to keep the peace and to collect taxes. So as you can imagine, you know, they were not everyone's who everyone loved the most. And so what happened, though, is we know there's something really, really unusual about this text because today, Nick and I, through A21, we provide services to rescue the victims of human trafficking in 22 countries around the world. And the fact is, in most countries in the 21st century, human trafficking, slavery, is illegal. Technically, a lot of our job is helping governments to actually enforce the law because it is illegal. But at this time in history, it was not illegal. Slavery was woven into the very fabric of the Roman Empire. So then when we suddenly see a centurion that the English translation here says servant, but that word, thulos in the Greek is slave. If you see a centurion had a slave that was about to die, normally that would be just like disposable, like, who cares one's going to die, I'll replace them with somebody else. So, you know, there's something really unusual about this centurion because he cares that this, this servant is sick and about to die and he wants him to be healed. So he's obviously got a lot of compassion. He's obviously very generous too, because the Jewish elder said to Jesus, this man is worthy for you to heal, heal his servant because.

Pastor Sean (17:02)

Because he loves our nation and he builds us a synagogue.

Christine Kane (17:05)

Listen, church, it is not very often

Pastor Sean (17:07)

someone from a different religion is going

Christine Kane (17:08)

to build a house of worship for

Pastor Sean (17:10)

someone from another religion.

Christine Kane (17:11)

And by the way, never, ever underestimate or limit how God will get to you, what he wants to get to you and who God might use to get to you. Whatever he wants to get to you.

Pastor Sean (17:21)

That's the kind of God that if

Christine Kane (17:22)

we serve, he will just do that.

Pastor Sean (17:24)

And he was obviously a very humble man because.

Christine Kane (17:26)

Because when Jesus was coming to him,

Pastor Sean (17:27)

he said, you don't even need to

Christine Kane (17:29)

come into my house.

Pastor Sean (17:31)

Just say the word. Just say the word and my servant will be healed. This Roman centurion, a gentile, non believer.

Christine Kane (17:40)

We're going to learn faith from a non believer.

Pastor Sean (17:42)

Today this non believer understood that there was something different about this rabbi. There was something so different about this Jesus that when the Word incarnate, God

Christine Kane (17:53)

himself is standing there.

Pastor Sean (17:54)

And when the Word leaves the word

Christine Kane (17:56)

and enters a sick body, healing takes place and that that boy would be healed. He said, you don't need to come in. Just say the word. And scripture says Jesus was amazed. In the esv, it says Jesus marveled at this man's faith. That word marveled, amazed. In the Greek is the word thavmazo. You might wonder, how does she know Greek? I know a little Greek. I'm little and I'm Greek. Okay, so there's that word thavmazo. Now, that word thavmazo is used in scripture 43 times. There's 43 times we see the word thavmazo. But there's only two times that we see the word thavmazo used in relation to Jesus. There's only two times recorded in the Gospels that Jesus thavmazo. Jesus marveled. Jesus was amazed. Now, what is amazing to me is that Jesus would ever be amazed. I mean, he is God. He knows the beginning from the end and everything in between. But according to this text, apparently there is a kind of faith that is available that causes the God of the universe to be amazed.

Pastor Sean (18:59)

And the thing that I've discovered is

Christine Kane (19:00)

when the God of the universe is amazed, miracles happen. This guy's servant was healed. So I said this word was used twice in relation to Jesus. We're going to look at the other time, the only other time recorded in the Gospels that this word's used. So go with me to the Gospel of Mark. Everyone say Mark. Mark. Okay, let's go to Mark. You all sound so American. Mark. Okay, I've just come back from England and so we speak the English language like King Charles wishes he could speak the English language. See, they put us on convict ships, you know, a couple hundred years ago, sent us down to Australia and we refer to find the English language. You Americans, you threw the tea out in Boston and went, peace out England. And this is what you've done to the English language. I'm just saying. So Mark, Mark, Chapter six. Okay, he left there and came to his hometown. And his disciples followed him. When the Sabbath came, he began to teach in the synagogue. And many who heard him were astonished. Where did this man get these things? They said, what is this wisdom that has been given to him? And how are these miracles performed by his hand? Isn't this the carpenter, the son of Mary and the brother of James, Joses, Judas and Simon? And aren't his sisters here with us? So they were offended by him. Can you imagine going down in eternal holy Writ as the people that were offended by Jesus? Jesus said to them, a prophet is not without honor except in his hometown, among his relatives and in his household.

Pastor Sean (20:33)

He was not able to do a miracle there. Except everyone say, except, I want you

Christine Kane (20:40)

to see what Jesus is doing when he's not doing a miracle.

Pastor Sean (20:43)

Except that he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them.

Christine Kane (20:46)

I'm sorry, this is what Jesus is doing when he's just doing the accept stuff.

Pastor Sean (20:50)

And so the interesting.

Christine Kane (20:51)

We would call that a really big Sunday in church. This would go viral on TikTok if we laid our hand. But that's what Jesus is doing when he can't really do a whole lot of miracles. There it goes on and it says, and he was amazed. There's the word thavmazzle. And he thav muzzled what at their unbelief.

Pastor Sean (21:15)

The two times Jesus was amazed at

Christine Kane (21:17)

scripture, both had to do with faith.

Pastor Sean (21:21)

One had to do with the faith

Christine Kane (21:23)

of the gentile, the Roman centurion that shouldn't have had faith that caused miracles to happen.

Pastor Sean (21:30)

The other was with the faith of

Christine Kane (21:32)

the people that should have believed Jesus the most. They had unbelief instead of faith, the

Pastor Sean (21:38)

place where Jesus grew up, the people that had the most access to him and the most familiarity with him actually didn't believe him. And the Bible says that Jesus, that Mazod, was amazed at their unbelief. And the thing that I've discovered after

Christine Kane (21:54)

almost four decades of following Jesus church,

Pastor Sean (21:56)

and often a familiarity with Jesus breeds

Christine Kane (22:00)

a laziness in our faith.

Pastor Sean (22:02)

The more access we have to the word of God, the way we could just download Christian music on bat, we could just get the Bible in whatever translation we want. We've got access to Christian everything, a church on every corner. Often we become so familiar with Jesus,

Christine Kane (22:18)

we're no longer operating in faith. We're no longer believing God for anything. We're just going through the whole just process without truly, truly believing God. That's why I'm excited about this series that we're in. You know, it's so interesting to me. In our generation, we're spending so much time trying to be amazing that we're no longer amazing God with our faith. I mean, we just want to make sure.

Pastor Sean (22:44)

We just want to make sure everyone knows how amazing we are. And so what we do is we make sure that we want to show everyone our most transparent, vulnerable, authentic self. And so we make sure we get out under the right lighting and we just have that camera at the right angle, and then we take that picture and we make sure we put the right, you know, filter on it and we edit it and we crop it and we make sure we upload it right at the right time. And it's just hashtag, you know, here it is, me and my most transparent, authentic self, hashtag blessed. Or then, you know, we want to just show people, man, and we, we just get that Bible and we just put it at the right angle and we make sure we got the coffee cup right next to it and the little flower and the burning little candle there. And then we just make sure we take that and it's just me and

Christine Kane (23:32)

Jesus, just our quiet time, Hashtag intimacy.

Pastor Sean (23:37)

So we post our Bible, but we haven't opened it and read it in

Christine Kane (23:40)

three years,

Pastor Sean (23:42)

but we're posting it all the time.

Christine Kane (23:45)

You're freaking out, aren't you, that I'm just throwing an iPhone around.

Pastor Sean (23:49)

But the issue is, when was the last time we really stepped out and believed God in faith? You and I serve a miracle working God. Everything to do with our faith. It's almost like we've tried to dilute it. I love that we're kicking off the Year like this because some of us have become too sophisticated to believe God. Because you and I are living in a world where the kind of faith that I'm talking about, amazing faith thavmuzzle. Faith is a faith that is often ridiculed by the world because it doesn't seem intellectual enough. It's not rational enough. You can't stick it in a scientific test tube and prove it. But listen, there is nothing rational ultimately about our faith. Our whole faith is predicated on the fact that a dead Jewish MAN Rose again 2,000 years ago. Was anybody else there? The linchpin of our faith is that a dead man rose. There is nothing rational about that. No matter how much evidence we have that demands a verdict, you can't prove it.

Christine Kane (24:49)

Ultimately, I wonder.

Pastor Sean (24:52)

We believe in a virgin birth. I said to my daughter before I sent her off to college, I go, sweetheart, I believe in a virgin birth, but I need you to know I believe there's only been ever one in the whole history of humanity. Do not try this at college. Cause it's impossible. There's nothing possible about it. The kind of faith I'm talking about, where we really believe people go, christine,

Christine Kane (25:15)

you really believe that this is the

Pastor Sean (25:18)

authoritative, inerrant word of God.

Christine Kane (25:23)

But Christine, what about all of those, like, just those really problematic, just violent texts, those really horrible things in Judges

Pastor Sean (25:30)

and Christine, I mean, that Christian sexual ethic. You mean you've been married to one

Christine Kane (25:34)

guy for 30 years and that's the

Pastor Sean (25:36)

only person you're ever gonna have sex with? I mean, like, that is just so 19th century. It's weird. What we believe is weird. This is what I'm trying. I don't know why we're trying to domesticate it and sophisticate, be sophisticated, because there is nothing cool about amazing faith. It is a desperation that says, I need God. I need his power. And I don't care what it. I don't care if someone thinks I'm amazing,

Christine Kane (26:05)

man. We just want to put out there our amazing lives and our amazing Instagram stories so that everyone can see how amazing we are. This is one of the greatest gifts God gave me, is I got saved when there was still no Internet. I'm as old as when dinosaurs still roamed the earth. I told you that there was no social media, so I couldn't scroll through everyone else's life to tell God what I wanted to do with my life. I'm back from old school, where you had to get into a prayer closet and you had to hear from the Holy Spirit about what you're gonna be. How did you build your career? Honey, this is not a career, it's a calling. And every day it's get up and one step in front of the other and go. Every day I have decided to follow Jesus. Every day I've decided to deny myself, take up my cross and follow Him. Every day I have made a decision that I'm gonna die daily.

Pastor Sean (26:49)

This is not a career,

Christine Kane (26:53)

but it's not a cool faith. I remember Nick and I were in a place in Asia. We had. I was speaking to 500 leaders of the underground church in China. The largest revival in our lifetime has happened in the Chinese church, remember, where Christianity is illegal. And it was the four streams, 125 leaders from each of the streams. And what had happened, obviously, when the revival first swept through. And back in the day, my husband would smuggle Bibles into China. I mean, we got old school stories, old school. And the leaders were largely agrarian workers, uneducated class, because they had wiped out an entire generation of educated people. And so back then, so many of them couldn't read and write or only had one. One chapter, one chapter at most, maybe a verse of this word that they would carry around illegally. And that would be the bread that would keep them going. So they had to absolutely depend on the Holy Spirit to tell them where they were going to meet and how they wouldn't get caught by the police. And I mean, they would tell you wild stories, signs and wonders and miracles

Pastor Sean (28:00)

because there was nothing else to depend on but God. But God.

Christine Kane (28:05)

And so then though we had urbanization, industrialization, globalization, we got the Internet, we've all got access to everything. And the children of these parents had grown up and benefited off the benefit of the parents faith because the parents believed God. So their kids got great education, so their kids had greater access to stuff that their parents never had. But then it's like, oh, that kind of Christianity, where you sort of really God, the Holy Spirit, miracle stuff, that's like, that's like for simple people. That's for people that just, you know, couldn't really go and get a degree. That's for people that really just. We're a bit more sophisticated. We've evolved. We're a little bit smarter than that. So we just have a flat sort of, you know, we don't really believe God for anything. And then these people said to me, so, Christine, we're hemorrhaging a generation of young people and so we would love you. We never learned any leadership. We never learned how to reach young people. So we would love you to teach us, you know, and give us some keys on how to do that. And they said, because the only thing we were ever taught was how to witness to our prison guard on the way to our execution. Now, I didn't think I heard that right, so I asked my translator to check and they said, no, no. The only thing we were really taught was how to present the gospel and how to witness on the way to our. To our prison guard, on the way to our execution and church. I remember I just started bawling and I just got down and I said, listen, I don't know what you think I'm here for or what I could possibly offer you, but I need you to know that whatever that faith is that you've got that would cause you to witness to your prison guard on the way to your execution, I need you to lay hands on me. And I need that kind of. That's the faith I want to take back to America.

Pastor Sean (29:59)

Not a sufficient, sophisticated, polished, nice Christian lifestyle. I want a life that believes God and causes the God of the universe to marvel. Because can I tell you, red rocks at the end of our services today, whichever one you're in and all of the other hundreds of thousands of church services just in North America, let alone all over the world, Jesus will leave

Christine Kane (30:22)

these services with us.

Pastor Sean (30:23)

And Jesus will thavmazo. He will marvel. My question is, will he marvel at

Christine Kane (30:30)

our faith or our unbelief?

Pastor Sean (30:33)

When we all get in our cars, is he gonna go, I could have

Christine Kane (30:36)

done so much more in that service if those people believe me. Or is he gonna say, I haven't seen this kind of faith in all of Colorado. Haven't seen this kind of faith in all of Austin and Texas. I haven't seen this kind of faith in Brussels or all of Europe. And what I've discovered is when the God of the universe marvels, miracles happen. Our job is to believe God. His job is to do the miracle. You and I can't do that. God does.

Pastor Sean (31:08)

But to do that, we've got to be prepared to look foolish. That is the bottom line. But I'm keep trying to wake the church up and go, listen, however educated we are and sophisticated we are, and God bless it all. I run a global anti trafficking organization. Thank God for all of it, education and training and all the different sectors. But at the end of the day, our world needs God and there is

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nothing highly polished about it. It's desperate people that see God move and I'll Polish people. People with them. I'm the kid. I was born in Sydney, Australia. I was. You know, I grew up in the poorest zip code of my state. Daughter of Greek immigrants. Just your very typical classic Greek immigrant housing story. I grew up in government housing. I was sexually abused for a decade by four men. My immediate family was awesome, but my parents trusted and allowed people to come into our home who they should have been able to trust, but proved very, very untrustworthy. And so I was so broken. And two weeks before my 33rd birthday, I got a phone call from my brother George, and he said, christine, I just got a letter from the government. It says, I've been adopted. Now, church. When he said that, at first I started laughing because, you know, when you're growing up, you always say to your siblings, like, we're not related. Like, you're adopted. Your mother's from Mars, you know. But then I went, george, of course they've made a mistake. And he said, no, Christine. I said, call them back. He called me back about 10 minutes later, and this time he's sobbing. He goes, chris, it's true. They tell me the name of my biological mother, my biological father, they got a whole file on my life. And he goes, I'm going to go and confront Mum. Now. My dad had died when I was 19, and I'm thinking, you know, I don't know if you know anything about Greeks, but Greeks are crazy. And so I'm thinking, he's going to go home and anything can happen. So I go home to my mother's house, and I walk into the living room at the moment that my brother's giving my mom this piece of paper from the government, and the blood just drains from my mom's face. And she goes, george, I'm so sorry. All of the adoption laws in Australia, they were all closed adoptions in the 1960s. And we never thought you would find out. And I promised your dad I would never tell you. And so I tore up all of the paperwork and church. You could just imagine in this moment, my brother's crying, my mum's crying, the dog's crying. You know, the snot's flying. I mean, it's all happening. And it's like it's a big fat Greek moment. And I said, you know, I'm Greek, so food is the answer to life, the universe and everything. So I'm thinking, I'm gonna go and make some baklava. I go into the kitchen and I start cooking. And then a few minutes later, my mother walks in after me. And she said to me in Greek she goes, christina, since we're telling the truth today, do you want to know the whole truth? I'm not even sure why I did this. I turned around, I went, I've been adopted too. And with tears streaming down her face, my mum just nodded her head and she said yes. And church, I was stunned and just stunned. I mean, I didn't even say anything for, for a few minutes. Which in and of itself is a miracle greater than the resurrection of Jesus. But anyway, so I did. But then the very. Well, the very first, the very first thing I said was, am I still Greek?

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And I thought I was called a

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lot of names at school and persecuted for my Greek ethnicity. So I want to make sure that there was a reason for it. But the very next thing that came out of my mouth because I had encountered Jesus about a decade before, I said, oh well, mum. Literally my mum was bawling, I said, mum, it'll be okay. I grabbed her hands, I said, it'll be okay because Mum, before I was formed in my mother's womb, whose ever womb that was, God knew me and he knitted together my innermost parts and

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he fashioned all of my days before

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as yet there was one of them. I'm fearfully and wonderfully made in church

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that day, every fact that I thought

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to be true about my life changed. What my name was, what my history was. To this day I don't know the facts surrounding my conception.

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I don't know if I was the

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result of a one night stand or an ongoing adulterous affair or even a rape. But although I don't know the facts, I do know that there is a

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force on the planet much higher than the facts.

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And it's called the truth of the word of God.

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And Ephesians chapter 2, verse 10 does not say that I am the one workmanship of a rape or an affair. It says that I am God's workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus for good works that God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them. I and so many others are a living miracle. A living testimony of the miracle working

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power of God to take an unnamed unwanted.

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My birth certificate does not have a

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name on it says child's name unnamed number 2508 of 1966. And it'd be just like God to say, you know what? I'm going to take an unnamed, unwanted, abused, adopted chick from the back of Sydney, Australia and not only rescue her, but use her to open the prison doors for those that are still in bondage and rescue people out of slavery. And can I just say to you,

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Church, every single time we put a trafficker in jail or we rescue a young woman or a child or a man out of forced labor, slavery, every time I think, devil, you can stick

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that in your pipe and smoke it.

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I bet you wish you left me alone. I feel like Joseph who stood before his brothers in Genesis, chapter 50, verse 20 and said, you meant this for evil against me, but God meant it for this very purpose, to save many, many people alive. God is in the miracle working business.

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It's what he does. It's what he does. He transforms lives.

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He gives us not only forgiveness for our past, but a brand new start

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and a hope for the future. I want to have a kind of faith that believes in the dark hour in which we live, that our miracle working God would reveal himself to a lost in a broken world through his people and through our testimony. That's why I believe this month this is just a kickoff. Our faith is only going to increase week by week and day by day this year. And the testimonies of the signs and wonders and miracles are going to attract a world that is desperate. They don't need a God that could do what we can do.

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They need a God that could do

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exceedingly, abundantly, above and beyond anything we could ever ask, hope or think.

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They need to touch transcendence.

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But it's the degree to which you and I are willing to look foolish, not sophisticated. Can you just imagine how foolish did Noah look like? He's building an ark.

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And everyone's like, noah, what are you building? He's like an ark. They're like, what's an ark? He's like, I don't know. I don't know. Why are you building it? Because rain's coming. What's rain? Haven't got a clue. I say this to my staff all the time.

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It's half the time God drops a blueprint.

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You're like, I'm building.

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I don't know what for. I haven't got a clue. Welcome to Christian leadership. How foolish did Moses look? He's got the Red Sea in front of him, he's got the Egyptian army

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behind him, and he's got all the Israelites go, moses, what are we gonna do? And he's like, I don't know. I gotta stick. If you're flowing with the Holy Spirit, that's pretty much leadership in 2026. I don't know. I got a stick. Can you imagine Sarah?

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She's like, In Target, in the maternity section, shopping. And she's like saying to all her girlfriends, oh, it's kicking. And the girls are like, what are you talking about?

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She's like, I'm having a baby.

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They're like, Honey, you're 90. Your eggs have dried up. They haven't invented Viagra yet. It's not happening at home. But she's. She's got something in her old age that still has to be birthed. Still time. David's got a little slingshot. There's a nine foot giant. I don't know what nine foot giant you're facing, but it's like, you know what? This slingshot, I got five stones and there's a giant. There's. Imagine how foolish Esther looked going in to speak to the king when she wasn't summoned. She could have died for speaking truth to power. I mean, I could go on and on. How foolish did Mary look? She comes into Joseph and she's like,

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I promised it was an angel.

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Random. How foolish did Peter look stepping out of the boat onto water?

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How foolish did the little boy look?

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Five loaves, two fish, 20,000 people on the side of a mountain.

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I'm not telling you. No one has ever done anything for

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the Lord has ever looked sophisticated.

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How foolish did the woman with the issue of blood look? She's in a crowd like this. She's like, I don't really even care what that chick's talking about. I've come to touch the hem of

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his garment because if I could just touch him, my marriage might make it another week. If I could just touch him, my kid might not od. If I could just touch him, just maybe this disease will be healed. If I could just grab the hem of his garment. Oh, that looks weird. In 2026, that looks weird. I could go on and on. How foolish did Paul and Silas look? Singing. Singing in the middle of a being in chains in a cave, being imprisoned, just. And I'll tell you who look the most foolish. There's no doubt about it. Jesus hanging on a cross, half naked.

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Everyone's like, that's your God, you're staking your eternity on him.

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It's not different in 2026.

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Really.

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You're a bit narrow minded. You're a bit bigoted. Gosh, that's a little bit dangerous that

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you're staking your whole eternity on that.

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It hasn't changed. Just because we've got AI and we've got technology and we can go to the moon does not mean we are going to be Exempt from having to have foolish faith. But what is the result of all of these people believing God? What is the result?

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What is it that happens?

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Because this is how miracles happen.

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Well, what happened? Noah and his whole family was saved from the flood. And Moses did see that Red Sea part. Sarah, she did give birth to Isaac. Remember that? David did defeat Goliath and what's her name, Esther, stopped a Jewish genocide. And Mary gave birth to Jesus. And that little boy's lunch, it did feed those 20,000 people. And Peter did walk on water. And the woman with the issue of blood, Last time I checked, she was healed. And Paul and Silas did get out of that prison cell. And by the way, Jesus Christ got off that cross and defeated hell and defeated death and holds the keys to hell and death and church. I've come to Red Rocks to remind you the same spirit that raised Jesus

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Christ from the dead lives on the inside of you and me. Therefore, we could do all things through Christ Jesus, who strengthens us. I wonder, friend, if you know this Jesus that I'm talking about tonight. Not do you know about him, but do you know him? And if you don't, right here, right now, wherever you are, I just want to give you the opportunity to address the spiritual condition of your heart. The opportunity to put Jesus Christ first in your life. Maybe this is your first time in a meeting like this. You were not, not even sure what you were coming to. A friend lied and they said, let's go to a nightclub.

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And you're like, what is this?

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You are not here by accident. You are here in the divine timing, the divine plan and the divine purpose of God. Maybe you once walked with God, but if you're honest, today you've been away from God, cold in your heart, maybe even backslidden. Today, friend, I want to invite you to stop running from him. Come home to him. Make your peace with Jesus. I just want every head bowed and every eye closed wherever you are, from the front to the back, from the left to the right. I'm not speaking to the person next to you in this moment. I'm speaking to you. And if you say to me, chris, I want what you're talking about tonight, I want a fresh start with Jesus Christ. Either for the very first time or I've been away from God, cold in my heart.

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But I want what you're talking about.

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I need a fresh start with Jesus. I need forgiveness for my past. A brand new start right now. And I hope for the future. I want to pray with you just a very simple but powerful prayer. If you say, Chris, would you include me in that prayer? I want a fresh start with Jesus, just so I know who I'm praying for. Would you just raise your hand wherever you are and say, chris, pray for me? There are so many of you with your hands raised. So many of you. I'm just seeing hands literally everywhere. Keep those hands up high. Keep those hands up high. I'm going to pray a prayer out loud. I want the whole room to pray this prayer out loud after me. And then if you're even a believer, your hand's not raised. I want you to add your faith to the faith of these people that are praying this prayer tonight. And we are just going to affirm their yes to Jesus tonight. So especially those of you with your hands raised, and there are dozens of hands that I can see. Keep those hands up high. I'm going to pray, and then everyone in the room is going to say this after me. Dear Jesus, I've raised my hand today because I recognize, recognize my need for you. I'm sorry that I've been living my life my own way and ignoring you. I'm sorry that I've sinned against you. And I ask today that you would forgive me for all of my sins, that you would give me a fresh start today and a hope for the future. I want to be a Christian, a follower of Jesus Christ every single day for the rest of my life. Jesus, I receive your forgiveness. I receive your love. I receive your grace. Thank you. Amen. Amen. Can we thank God for so many people saying yes to Jesus? This is what I want us all to do.

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Church.

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Could we stand together? We want to be a church that has the kind of faith that causes the God of the universe to marvel. Because when the God of the universe marvels, miracles happen. And we're in a series and we're believing God for miracles. I'm going to ask for our prayer team to come to the front, come up to the balcony just to be located, and what we're going to do as we worship King Jesus together, so many of you, there are needs. There are physical needs, there are emotional needs, there are spiritual needs, there are financial needs. And you need God to move. And as we worship, I invite you to come forward. We've got our prayer team that will be praying with you. Have someone agree with you in prayer. And I'm believing, as we've already started to see at the outset of 2026, it is just going to to continue to increase and people are going to come from all over the community and go, I heard in that house miracles happen. I heard in that house marriages are restored, children come back to God, bodies

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are healed, diseases shrivel up and die. I heard there's something happening in that house.

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We want to be a house that causes the God of the universe to marvel. So let's worship King Jesus, come forward, and let's pray together.