Messages spoken at the Iowa CFO 1992.
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Alex McCullough jokes that his 1934 birth rests on “two witnesses,” his parents, who are both dead now. He then turns to Nicodemus’s question in John 3, “how can a man be born when he is old,” to describe what it means to be alive in Christ. He surrendered his life to God while driving to a job interview, a story he tells at the 1992 Iowa CFO, and his wife only believed two months later.
Alex McCullough recalls how Duke Ellington’s band quietly covered his bar tab one night. It is a picture of the debt Christ paid that he could not repay himself. At the Iowa CFO in 1992, he turns it into a call for campers to walk by the Spirit through Romans 6 and Galatians 5.
Alex McCullough tells how he finally forgave his alcoholic father years after his death. He also tells how he later led his teenage daughter through a prayer to break her vow never to forgive her parents or the church. Both stories come from the Iowa CFO in 1992.
Alex McCullough works through the Samaritan woman at the well in John 4. He sets it alongside his own story, from the Marine Corps and a pawned saxophone to his consecration as a bishop. His aim, at the Iowa CFO in 1992, is to show campers who they already are in Christ.
Alex McCullough tells of a gift from a Jewish family, a photo book called “The Family of Man,” and a chance meeting with a homeless stranger in New York City. Together they taught him that there is no “they,” only a “we” bound together in the family of God. He brought the lesson to the Iowa CFO in 1992.
In his final message of the week at the Iowa CFO in 1992, Alex McCullough recounts a camp sound engineer named Dick. His ringing ears went silent after prayer. The ringing briefly returned and tested his faith, then stayed gone for good.