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Tommy Tyson’s own congregation turned against his baptism in the Holy Spirit, and he tried to surrender his credentials. His bishop refused them, saying “put those papers back in your pocket.” Campers at the Nebraska CFO in 1973 hear him conclude that real authority is Calvary love, not office, and that we are sent to serve rather than to save.
Whose flesh did the Word become? Tommy Tyson answers with man spelled with a capital M — every race and party and both sides of a war — then presses on to say that Jesus did not only die for us but as us. At the 1973 Nebraska CFO he tells campers about a tent at Costa Mesa filled with long-haired young people bound for baptism in the Pacific, and calls the church a “house of prayer for all people.”
Affirmations run out, and Tommy Tyson proves it with his dying father, who teased him to drive off calling a worn out car a brand new Dodge. To the Nebraska CFO in 1973 he points instead to thinking God’s thoughts, asking the Father as a co-laborer, and letting Jesus heal old memories.
At the Gate Beautiful, Peter tells the lame beggar to look right at him instead of off toward heaven. Tommy Tyson takes that as proof the body is a sacrament of the soul. Matter and spirit were wedded in the incarnation, he tells the Nebraska CFO in 1973, so a touched hem, a bottle of pills prayed over, and an honest real estate business all release the power of God.
A wealthy Georgia attorney tells Tommy Tyson that the talk on the prodigal son did not apply to him: “This is my pig pen. What’s wrong with it?” The opening night of the Nebraska CFO in 1973 turns on the answer, that need is never a cause for guilt but an open door to Jesus. It closes with an executive who heard God say “I love you” three times over an open Bible.