Messages spoken at the 1969 Colorado Summer CFO
Colorado Summer CFO 1969:
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The 1969 Colorado Summer CFO met at YMCA Association Camp, Estes Park, in July 1969. The speakers were Norman Elliott and Ruth Robison, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Healing, Integrity, Praise & Thanksgiving, Spiritual Growth and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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A man who claimed the gift of discernment told Ruth Robison he had decided that morning she was “nothing but a little witch,” and by the end of their talk he took it back. At the 1969 Colorado Summer CFO she warns that a spiritual gift is given to find God at work in people rather than evil, and that a new insight is to be obeyed at once.
An ignorant old monk wore Francis de Sales down with a single repeated sentence over years, which Norman Elliott offers as evidence about persistence rather than eloquence. “Do you think I am able” is the question, he tells the Colorado Summer CFO in 1969, and a boy’s migraines were healed a second time by his own mother’s hands.
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An Arizona cattleman said his old Colorado range was half a mile from heaven in summer and half a mile from hell in winter, and Norman Elliott hangs the shepherd psalm on that. Sheep will not drink from running water, he tells the Colorado Summer CFO in 1969, so the shepherd scoops out a still pool for them.
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Norman Elliott retells the whole of Peter’s life in the second person for the Colorado Summer CFO in 1969, from three denials by three separate fires to a cross set upside down on the Appian Way. Somewhere in the middle a monkey reads a Bible and asks whether he is his keeper’s brother.
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Poverty of spirit means poverty of ego and meekness means surrender to something larger, and Norman Elliott closes the 1969 Colorado Summer CFO on those two rather than the ones in between. A rock taken out of its context and put in a laboratory tray stops being what it was, and God, as David du Plessis said, “has no grandchildren.”
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Two bandaged men shared a hospital room and became friends without ever seeing each other, and one of them left before the other’s face was uncovered. Norman Elliott sets that against rank-based friendship and assigned parking spaces, and tells the 1969 Colorado Summer CFO that finding a real self matters more than earning approval for a borrowed one.
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A young dog is run until exhaustion teaches it discipline, and Norman Elliott opens the 1969 Colorado Summer CFO with that rather than a creed. Religion varies and truth does not, he argues, and the widow’s oil kept pouring until the borrowed pots ran out, which was never a problem with the oil.
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