Messages spoken at the 1993 Illinois CFO
Illinois CFO 1993:
10 messages.
The 1993 Illinois CFO met at Greenville College, Greenville, from June 20 to June 25, 1993. The speakers were Dan Yutzy and June Crawford, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Forgiveness, Guidance, Integrity, Love, Spiritual Growth, The Holy Spirit and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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June Crawford reads the wilderness temptation and reduces every temptation to the three Satan tried on Christ: appetite satisfied the wrong way, the spectacular that puts God to the test, and ambition bought with compromise. She warns the Illinois CFO in 1993 that the hardest trial often follows straight after a mountaintop week.
June Crawford defines the church as a covenant people rather than a building. She then personifies self-pity as a friend who turns out to be Legion, suspicion and resentment and envy and bitterness and fear and pride, and calls the Illinois CFO in 1993 to abandon that crowd and become a person with Christ at the center.
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Evangelical Christians have made much of believing and little of following, June Crawford argues at the 1993 Illinois CFO. She lays out rules for spiritual health running parallel to the physical ones: daily food in Scripture, prayer as the oxygen of the soul, exercise in putting faith to work, rest, and clean surroundings.
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Opening with an apology to Pentecostals for years of Mennonite criticism, Dan Yutzy takes Galatians 5 and Romans 8 on flesh and Spirit, as a present-tense question for the 1993 Illinois CFO rather than a past event. He can prepare and preach in the Spirit, he admits, and then come home and eat his lunch in the flesh, clenching the Spirit not on purpose but by never paying attention.
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Addressing the Illinois CFO in 1993, Dan Yutzy recaps three disciplines a believer chooses, Bible study, the family of God, and the Holy Spirit, and then reads Hebrews 12 on a fourth that is imposed rather than chosen. He confesses to having given the Spirit a tithe, letting Him be the Holy Spirit about a tenth of the time, and grants that no discipline seems pleasant while it is happening.
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By request, June Crawford repeats a talk on the holiness of God she first gave at this camp years earlier. Pursuing holiness is discipline rather than legalism, she insists to the Illinois CFO in 1993, translating righteousness as right-wayness and holding up the Bible as the anchor a culture with no fixed morality has cut loose.
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Dan Yutzy retells Joseph from the pit through to the reconciliation, noting the iron that entered his soul, and sets his own wasted decade against the promise of restored years, in this teaching at the Illinois CFO in 1993.
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June Crawford tells what prison ministry at Sheridan and Dwight taught her: a boy who asked her to be his grandmother because he had never seen his own sober, and ninety-six women waving palm branches most of them had never seen. God writes His history through people rather than buildings, she argues at the Illinois CFO in 1993.
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A society that has lost its fixed point of reference can no longer tell right from wrong, June Crawford says, and she answers from Paul at the Areopagus that truth stands outside us. Her picture for the Illinois CFO in 1993 is the sailor who finds a guiding star and pockets it, so that now the star is as lost as he is.
Dan Yutzy takes Psalm 23 away from the funeral service, and reads it to the Illinois CFO in 1993 as a psalm for the living, mapping its verses onto spiritual infancy, young adulthood and maturity. A sheep will not lie down without a full stomach, a shepherd in sight and nothing threatening on the horizon, he notes. A new believer’s prayers may reach God rather as a baby’s crying reaches a parent who already knows the need.
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