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At the Ohio CFO in 1970, Anna Mow describes a dying woman whose husband told her, years too late, that their troubled marriage had been his fault all along. The woman’s last message was relayed by a nurse, and it was simply that “the poor in spirit way works.” That quiet, costly forgiveness is what Anna Mow brings to the campers.
A young minister could not feel the Holy Spirit amid two small boys in a cramped apartment. Anna Mow told him to buy his wife three dozen roses rather than wait for God to change his mood. Within weeks, she tells the Ohio CFO in 1970, the home and the church had both changed.
Roland Brown names pride the most common and least resisted failure among Christians. At the Ohio CFO in 1970 he tells of churchgoers who edge away down a pew rather than sit close. Live as a valley, he urges campers, instead of climbing onto a pedestal.
Roland Brown grounds a teaching on forgiveness in one story. A pastor called on estranged families to ask their forgiveness in person, and eighteen of them returned to the pews within weeks. He tells it at the 1970 Ohio CFO.
Find a prayer partner, Roland Brown urges the Ohio CFO in 1970. He recalls a husband overheard asking his wife, “honey, will you be my prayer partner.” He also recalls two women whose hidden prayers turned a divided congregation warm again.
Roland Brown recounts a dream of climbing the stairs to heaven and writing out every sin in chalk, passing a friend on the way back down for more. He then walks the 1970 Ohio CFO through a month-long experiment in praying for a difficult deacon, until love changed them both.
Roland Brown tells of a minister who taught a prime minister a practice: to enter a hostile cabinet meeting silently praying love toward every rival in the room. The harshest session of that man’s career turned unexpectedly calm. He offers the story to the Ohio CFO in 1970.
At the Ohio CFO in 1970, Roland Brown reworks the teaching on the Mount into a lesson on prayer. Correcting a common misquote, he insists that the Father who “seeth in secret” rewards not what is said behind a shut door but what a life becomes there. Be not only hearers and doers, he urges, but “beers.”