Messages spoken at the North Carolina Kanuga CFO 1969.
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Tommy Tyson says he reads the Bible with a paintbrush. He paints the guest room Mary and Martha kept for Jesus, down to the swept floor and the white gooseneck pitcher of spring water. From that picture he moved to his premise, before campers at the 1969 North Carolina Kanuga CFO: all human history is being brought to its head in Jesus, and love always costs sacrifice.
The Holy Spirit hovers rather than forces, Tommy Tyson tells the North Carolina Kanuga CFO in 1969, and he takes it from his grandmother’s setting hens: not too hard, just crack that shell. The same gentleness shows up in conviction, in a new name given at baptism, and in the work of getting white and black campers to accept one another.
Tommy Tyson tells of Mary Sutton, a dancer who came through alcoholism. In front of a congregation he had been trying to impress, she ran down the church aisle to hug him, earrings swinging. At the North Carolina Kanuga CFO in 1969, campers hear that Calvary does not discard what contradicts us but redeems it, “turning stumbling blocks into stepping stones.”
Paul’s question to the Ephesian disciples becomes an invitation to know Jesus inwardly and to receive the power to be yourself without pretense. Tommy Tyson tells the 1969 North Carolina Kanuga CFO of a priest whose enemies petitioned Rome to have him removed, and who found his own signature sitting at the bottom of the list.