Messages spoken at the 1984 Nebraska CFO
Nebraska CFO 1984:
11 messages.
The 1984 Nebraska CFO met at Doane College, Crete. The speakers were Tim Ruthven and Wayne West, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Faith, Healing, Inner Healing, Jesus, Love, Spiritual Growth, The Holy Spirit and Victorious Living. Choose a message below to listen.
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A missions trip to Peru, a camp in Lima and a jungle settlement among the Aguaruna, becomes Wayne West’s argument to the Nebraska CFO in 1984 that obedience and comfort are unrelated. He describes a float plane put down on a river guarded by a snake killed at their feet, armadillo and monkey stew eaten to keep credibility, and a run of Spanish mistranslations.
A childlike walk with God rather than an accumulated theology, and Tim Ruthven puts the 1984 Nebraska CFO in front of a dream, in which everyone wore a clock that lost time with every sin. He is unsparing about the violence of his own youth, and about how close his wife came to not being there at all.
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Baptism argued out of doctrine and back into experience, with the water as the grave of something that has already died. Tim Ruthven wants the 1984 Nebraska CFO to remember a woman who had relapsed again and again, walking into the lake mid-camp in a new linen suit.
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Not whether God loves you but whether you love him back, and at what cost, taken out of John 21 and put to the Nebraska CFO in 1984. Tim Ruthven describes the vision that sent him out of a church weeping at twenty-seven, and the collapse years later that left him walking home with bleeding feet.
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Hebrews 12 with the eyes fixed and the weights laid down, and Tim Ruthven remembers stripping off anything that would catch the wind as an orphanage boy running marathons. A television crew who forgot to keep the camera on him because they had started listening is his favorite illustration, given at the Nebraska CFO in 1984.
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The bitter waters of Marah are deliberate, Wayne West says. He tells the 1984 Nebraska CFO what his own household went through while running a live-in ministry to troubled teenagers: laying hands on the walls of an empty house to claim it, and discovering what had happened in his own bedroom while the family was away.
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Ruth read through the Jewish betrothal custom: the sealed cup, the chamber built out of sight, and the shout that goes up when the bridegroom finally comes. Tim Ruthven wants the 1984 Nebraska CFO listening for it rather than studying it.
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A book’s German title becomes the word Tim Ruthven brings the Nebraska CFO in 1984: past conversion and past the baptism into a settled open heaven. He had waited two years for a way to speak to his own tribal community, and refused three separate invitations because the answer was no, until all nine hundred offered the marae at once.
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For the Nebraska CFO in 1984, maturity gets mapped onto Paul’s three self-portraits in 2 Timothy: wrestler, soldier and runner. Wayne West works from a Quaker threatening to sell his cow to a Methodist, and from a woman whose dream of the rapture had her tethered to her grand piano.
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A dying student said I love you to his father for the first time in twenty-two years, and Wayne West offers that to the 1984 Nebraska CFO as the measure of Calvary love. He adds a bishop who gave the thief the matching platter, a preacher who gave away his only trousers, and a desert dream in which the crushing rock turned out to be the self.
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Knowing Jesus after the flesh changes nothing, Wayne West argues, and only the risen and glorified Lord transforms anybody. The two charcoal fires of the gospels, one where Peter denied and one where he was restored, and an imagined reunion of Stephen and Paul, are what he leaves with the 1984 Nebraska CFO.
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