Messages spoken at the 1962 Indiana CFO
Indiana CFO 1962:
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The 1962 Indiana CFO met at Hanover College, Hanover, from August 11 to August 18, 1962. The speakers were Frank Laubach and Ruth Robison, and they spoke on the subjects of Camps Farthest Out History, Christian Living, Faith, Inner Healing, Jesus, Kingdom Living, Love, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, The Holy Spirit and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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Ruth Robison once sat on a lawn reading a book rather than listen to Glenn Clark, until he asked whether that was fair. A single morning talk on prayer then remade her praying and drew her into the movement. Telling that on an opening night at the 1962 Indiana CFO, she urges new campers into every part of the week, warning that “a watcher in the kingdom will never experience divine power.”
Frank Laubach tells the campers that Christ does not merely rule from heaven but truly lives inside anyone who yields control to him. He uses a friend’s dream in which Jesus refuses to enter a mind unless given the throne. He delivered the message to the 1962 Indiana CFO.
On a Sunday morning at the 1962 Indiana CFO, Ruth Robison picks up an empty sewing spool. She asks campers to unwind their lives onto it so God can wind a new film. Her three-year-old granddaughter, asked to pray over a crushed foot, refused to ask Jesus and offered to ask God instead. That answer opens her case for knowing the Father and not only the Son.
Frank Laubach retells the first Pentecost as if the apostles waiting in Jerusalem had held their own ten-day camp. He pictures Matthew taking dictation from the other disciples as they remember Jesus’s teaching on the Mount and his healings, right up to the Spirit falling on them as flames of fire. The talk comes from the Indiana CFO in 1962.
Frank Laubach reviews his own book of that name, teaching listeners to walk daily with Jesus through the Gospels page by page. This comes from the 1962 Indiana CFO. He closes with the hilltop testimony among the Moros in which his own lips spoke Christ’s rebuke back to him.
At the Indiana CFO in 1962, Frank Laubach explains to the campers the difference between the Greek eros, philia, and agape. Agape is the love that only asks “can I help you,” and he tells how it gave rise to a word coined at another camp. He also describes how repeating “Oh Jesus, I love you” freed him from unwanted, recurring thoughts he calls fixations.
Frank Laubach answers questions the campers raised the previous night. He recalls a dinner where the atom bomb’s own inventor told him, “I repent night and day.” At the Indiana CFO in 1962, he argues that hunger, not communism, is the real danger the world must overcome.
Frank Laubach unveils a map striped in yellow for the world’s wealth and black for its hunger. It is his visual case, made to the 1962 Indiana CFO, for a dollar a week giving campaign he calls the Army of Compassion, meant to feed and educate the world before communism does it instead.
Near the close of the Indiana CFO in 1962, Frank Laubach urges young people to start a dime-a-week company of compassion, like the one two Detroit teenagers built at their high school. He warns that a single hot coal pulled from the fire cools fast. Every Christian, he says, needs a small prayer group to stay lit.
Ruth Robison lists ways of praying at the 1962 Indiana CFO, from the altar prayer to the prayer of boldness, and she warns against what she calls the prayer of dark moods. She closes with Star Island, where each person carries a lantern up the path and hangs it in the pitch-dark chapel until the whole room is full of light.
At the 1962 Indiana CFO, Ruth Robison tells of a husband on the edge of divorce who prays to “see myself as she sees me,” then returns home to reconcile before breakfast. She sets it inside a talk on God as light, as fulfillment, and as a love that calls for total surrender of mind, body, and spirit.
Ruth Robison walks the 1962 Indiana CFO through a night of silence, from a familiar passage of scripture through three deep breaths to writing down in the dark whatever comes. She then works the ladder of 2 Peter from virtue to love on a woman nobody in the congregation wanted around, whose one remembered virtue was two handfuls of cookies carried out to poor children.
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At the 1962 Indiana CFO, Ruth Robison opens with a childrens story about a woman who gives away plums, feathers, and roses before finally receiving apples for her own dessert, then leads a service built on the hymn “Crown Him with Many Crowns,” where members offer their most victorious moments to God. She names doubt and judgment as what blocks his power.
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