Messages spoken at the 1979 Missouri CFO
Missouri CFO 1979:
11 messages.
The 1979 Missouri CFO met at William Woods College, Fulton. The speakers were Iverna Tompkins and Judson Cornwall, and they spoke on the subjects of Authority, Christian Living, Discipline, Forgiveness, Guidance, Praise & Thanksgiving, Prayer, Spiritual Growth, The Holy Spirit and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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Judson Cornwall walks through Hezekiah’s charge that the priests stand before God, serve him, minister to him, and burn incense to him. He illustrates it with a young pastor who tried to credit him for his conversion, his marriage, and his calling. He gave the talk to the 1979 Missouri CFO.
Judson Cornwall contrasts King Ahaz’s substitute worship with Hezekiah’s reforms in 2 Chronicles 29. He then likens himself to a pruned vineyard branch, after a public prophecy that he would be “cut down” and the heart attack that followed. The talk was given to the 1979 Missouri CFO.
Iverna Tompkins recounts being falsely accused of an affair with a man on her brother’s church board, and how the Holy Spirit broke her bitterness with the words “I have forgiven you of more than you’ve ever been accused.” She also reads through Lamentations 4 and compares the church’s refining to gold tried in the fire. She brought that testimony to campers at the 1979 Missouri CFO.
Judson Cornwall speaks on reconciliation, explaining that the Greek word behind it means to move from enmity into friendship. At the 1979 Missouri CFO, he also uses a flying lesson he gave his nephew to show that nothing a believer does can move beyond God’s control.
Continuing her Lamentations series, Iverna Tompkins retells Christ’s Gethsemane prayer and tells the story of a troubled woman her congregation once helped restore. She insists that “judgment has begun in the house of the Lord” before it ever reaches the world. The teaching comes from the Missouri CFO in 1979.
At the Missouri CFO in 1979, Iverna Tompkins moves from Lamentations 1 into chapter 2. She warns campers that shifting doctrine and what she calls the “silence of the elders” reveal a loss of wisdom in the church. She contrasts Miriam’s simple tambourine song with Moses’ theological one, which few understood.
At the Missouri CFO in 1979, Judson Cornwall teaches on the priesthood of all believers and distinguishes the gifts of knowledge from the gifts of communication. He then tells how his Korean interpreter was filled with the Holy Spirit mid-prayer, leaving him to guide the pastors by sign language alone.
Iverna Tompkins closes her Lamentations series, reading chapter five as the cry of a “prodigal nation.” She tells campers that God restores them not to what they once had, but to himself, so that Christ may be fully formed in them. She was speaking at the Missouri CFO in 1979.
Iverna Tompkins opens a five-part Lamentations series at the Missouri CFO in 1979. She warns that America is a “sleeping giant,” less prepared for Christ’s return than any generation before it. The church, she says, holds an authority it no longer knows how to use.
Judson Cornwall walks through 2 Chronicles 29 at the 1979 Missouri CFO. He describes how Hezekiah’s priests swept debris from the temple courts. He pictures a wandering thought during prayer as a goat that must be led out and tied up rather than let loose in worship.
A pastor once told Judson Cornwall he allowed the gifts of the Spirit between eleven and a quarter past, and Cornwall takes that as the picture of how leaders quietly close down first the gifts, then praise, then joy, then any bodily sign of worship at all. He admits to the Missouri CFO in 1979 that he built churches on guilt himself, and describes a solemn worshipper caught smiling and straightening his robe.
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