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On the closing morning of the 1965 Indiana CFO, Tommy Tyson calls the cross the place where our will meets God’s and yields. He tells how letters from children in a crippled children’s hospital left a hardened North Carolina convict “bound by invisible chains” of love and faith. He then asks campers whether they are as glad as Jesus was to pay the price of rejection.
Ann Secrest closes her week of talks with an extended picture of a swordsmith who tempers steel through repeated fire and water until it can bend without breaking. She compares that to how God prepares a believer to hold more love than they yet can. The talks came at the Indiana CFO in 1965.
Continuing her talk on pride at the Indiana CFO in 1965, Ann Secrest recalls how a cracked front tooth wrecked her vanity the night before her first church camp. She then turns to a passage from Francois Fenelon that defines true humility as pure, self-forgetting love.
Ann Secrest names pride as the deadliest sin, a spiritual failure that hides inside good things. She pictures the Christian life as an ox yoke shaped to rest easily on willing shoulders, then leads campers at the Indiana CFO in 1965 into communion.
Tommy Tyson walks campers at the Indiana CFO in 1965 through the nine gifts of the Spirit. The markers God gives are “sign posts and not fence posts,” he warns, because about the time you think you have Him figured out He will jump the fence. Gifts serve the fruit, and the fruit grows out of a love union with Jesus.
Tommy Tyson moves campers from confessing sin to confessing who they are in Christ, and then to confessing who Jesus is before the world. His model is the phone call that broke into his study: his son, needing a ride home, said only “Daddy, this is me.” He was speaking to the Indiana CFO in 1965.
Praying in Jesus’ name is not a label stuck on our own wishes, Tommy Tyson says in a morning session of the 1965 Indiana CFO. It is a wife writing a check on her husband’s account, which from anyone else would be forgery. He also traces the powers Pentecost released, from open worship to Peter lifting the lame man at the temple gate.
Tommy Tyson trailed his six foot four granddaddy around the farm, hoping to grow like him. At the 1965 Indiana CFO he draws the lesson: the law of imitation has no power to transform. Only the risen Jesus, living in a person, does that.
A young man whose body had gone rigid since childhood came in a wheelchair to the 1965 Indiana CFO. He was offered a seat among those needing prayer, but he told Louise Eggleston he would be one of the blessers instead. Then he rose and blessed an entire row of campers himself.