Messages spoken at the 1978 Georgia Mountains CFO
Georgia Mountains CFO 1978:
5 messages.
The 1978 Georgia Mountains CFO met at Georgia Baptist Assembly, Toccoa, from July 3 to July 7, 1978. The speakers were Bill Spencer and Evelyn Carter Spencer, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Inner Healing, Jesus, Love and Spiritual Growth. Choose a message below to listen.
Evelyn Carter Spencer tells how she once lay on the floor crying out to God, until she heard him say to get up, because everything she was begging for was already hers in Jesus. She closes with the group singing “Jesus, reduce me to love,” and calls campers at the Georgia Mountains CFO in 1978 to lay down their own idea of what love should look like.
Evelyn Carter Spencer preaches on breaking free from being bound to the past, retelling Paul’s cry in Philippians 3 to “know him.” She points to her own testimony about a mink coat, which she calls proof that “my daddy gave it to me.” The message closes out a service at the 1978 Georgia Mountains CFO.
Evelyn Carter Spencer describes years of walls in her personal life as “deep furrows” down the highway of her walk with God. Speaking at the 1978 Georgia Mountains CFO, she tells about the isolation behind her ministry. She recalls a time she fell in a road at a conference while people walked past without stopping to help.
At the 1978 Georgia Mountains CFO, Evelyn Carter Spencer preaches on breaking loose from the familiar. She retells the story of a mother eagle who stirs her nest, and shakes her eaglets off a high ledge to force them to fly. She also retells Luke 5’s frustrated fishermen, who finally caught fish only after a stranger told them, “why don’t you move?”
Preaching on growing in grace at the 1978 Georgia Mountains CFO, Bill Spencer describes food, air, and exercise as the soul’s requirements for growth. He then warns, through a recruiting poster for Uncle Sam, that sin never shows the hidden hand that costs the most.