Messages spoken at the 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO
North Carolina Kanuga CFO 1978:
6 messages.
The 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO met at Furman University, Greenville, from July 16 to July 20, 1978. The speakers were Bill Godfrey and Tim Ruthven, and they spoke on the subjects of Christian Living, Discipline, Faith, Forgiveness, Inner Healing, Kingdom Living, Spiritual Growth and The Holy Spirit. Choose a message below to listen.
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Bill Godfrey recounts a vivid hallucination in which Jesus told him to dive in the river, swim it, and walk toward the city without looking back. Jesus then cut away the anvil of guilt roped around his neck so he could. This comes from the 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO. He tells the campers that every acknowledged sin is already forgiven. He closes by reading the poem his teenage daughter Sarah wrote years before her death, picturing a homecoming that mirrored her own.
In the camps, Tim Ruthven traces his childhood in a New Zealand Presbyterian orphanage during the Second World War, his conversion through a recording of a Billy Graham crusade, and the disbelief of his son’s schoolteacher, who insisted, “no, you didn’t come out of that church,” before describing how he later founded a community for street people in Auckland. Given at the 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO.
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Tim Ruthven teaches from Matthew 16 that the Pharisees could read the weather but not “discern the signs of the times,” and that Jonah heard the word of the Lord yet still refused to obey it. This comes from the 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO. He tells the campers that Peter’s confession, “thou art the Christ,” and the rebuke of Jesus, “get thee behind me, Satan,” show that hearing God is a matter of the spirit, not the intellect.
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This talk comes from the 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO. Tim Ruthven tells his hearers they are not a historical accident but a covenant people, spoken for by God through Abraham long before their nation existed. He recalls baptizing new believers at the camp, including a Jewish convert who saw the rite as a kind of death to his own family, and calls listeners to that same costly commitment.
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Continuing his teaching on Elisha, Tim Ruthven describes the prophet’s cry after Elijah is taken up, “Where is the God of Elijah,” and the double portion of the Spirit he received when the Jordan parted before him. He tells of a young missionary whose airfare arrived only hours before her flight, urging listeners to burn every bridge that competes with trust in God. From the 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO.
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Tim Ruthven delivers a farewell prophetic message from Isaiah 43 and 44, declaring that God will pour out his Spirit on the children of those listening and on the nation, including Washington, D.C. This comes from the 1978 North Carolina Kanuga CFO. He recounts an uncle who broke down weeping and ran up and down the street after receiving a similar word years before, and says goodbye to the campers as he and his family prepare to return to New Zealand.
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