Messages spoken at the 1981 Missouri CFO
Missouri CFO 1981:
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The 1981 Missouri CFO met at William Woods College, Fulton, from June 22 to June 27, 1981. The speakers were Thelma Lee and Tommy Lewis, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Family, Forgiveness, Inner Healing, Jesus, Love, Spiritual Growth, The Holy Spirit and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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Tommy Lewis argues at the 1981 Missouri CFO that every human problem is finally a love problem, and that identification with Christ rather than performance is what releases God’s love. Thirty-three years of marriage without knowing his wife’s eye color. A parable about throwing the cat away.
Thelma Lee teaches forgiving and forgetting through Joseph, Paul, Peter and Mary Magdalene at the Missouri CFO in 1981, alongside her own three years of anonymous poison letters from a former colleague. A package of manure arrived signed by a secret pal; God kept asking her, “what sin?”
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Thelma Lee describes God’s double vision at the 1981 Missouri CFO: seeing a person as they are and at the same time as they could become. She has Gideon threshing wheat in fear and greeted as a mighty man of valor, and a stranger who picked her out of a crowd of five thousand.
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Thelma Lee runs an eagle allegory the whole length of her talk to the Missouri CFO in 1981: a nest stirred with thorns, a bird that plucks out its own feathers to renew itself, and an eaglet raised among chickens that cannot rise when eagles pass overhead. Isaiah 40:31 gives it the spine.
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Tommy Lewis teaches Christ in you as a present-tense resurrection at the Missouri CFO in 1981, working from Colossians 1:27. Along the way: a mother who had called her four-year-old a devil and was prayed back to the moment of conception, and a lesson that silence and a small gift beat blunt honesty.
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Thelma Lee reframes the whole of Jesus’s ministry at the 1981 Missouri CFO as a run of triumphal entries: into Samaria, into sickness, into hunger, into a storm, into a tormented man, into hearts. A prize sow taught to feed eighteen piglets in shifts, and an unbroken mule refined by what it carried, supply the images.
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Tommy Lewis insists at the 1981 Missouri CFO that love must be experienced rather than merely believed, testifying to ten years of grief after a family break that one act of obedience finally healed. His sister embraced him unannounced at a grocery checkout. Nobody knew how to work the new stove.
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Tommy Lewis reads John 10:10 at the 1981 Missouri CFO as a sequence: the thief takes attention, then affection, then destroys. Against it he sets a will fixed on good will. He recounts a vision of Jesus in a robe of shifting color. His wife, he says, once complained of being poisoned at breakfast.
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Years of hearing a bad report about a song leader he had never met left Tommy Lewis boiling with hatred, the first time the man walked to the podium, minutes before he was due to preach on the love of God. The remedy, he tells the 1981 Missouri CFO, was not more effort but the Lord’s own regard for the man, handed over with a single instruction.
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