Messages spoken at various Camps Farthest Out by John Glenn.
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John Glenn tells campers how he once measured his pastoral success in “noses and nickels.” Then God stripped away his reputation, income, and marriage, and that taught him that ministry means warning, comforting, and supporting one another rather than chasing approval. He was speaking at the Florida Family CFO in 1993.
John Glenn continues his Genesis 3 study, describing Adam and Eve’s fig-leaf coverings drying up and God instead clothing them in animal skins as a picture of grace. He closes by assigning campers the question, “why am I saying what I’m saying, why am I doing what I’m doing.” The study belongs to the Florida Family CFO in 1993.
In a Genesis 3 study at the Florida Family CFO in 1993, John Glenn traces how the serpent gets Eve doubting God’s word and fixated on the one tree she cannot have. He tells of counseling a wife to “pretend that your husband’s already saved” instead of pressuring him with self-help books.
In 1993, at the Florida Family CFO, John Glenn continues his teaching on the family from Genesis 2. He tells the campers that Eve was formed from a full half of Adam rather than a single rib. “Bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh,” he says, means no camper can hurt a spouse without hurting themselves.
John Glenn introduces his wife Sandy and their adopted daughter, then turns to the gospel applied to families. He closes with the story of his friend Curtis, who broke down and asked for a savior after hearing his own name written into the promises of Ephesians 1. He was teaching at the Florida Family CFO in 1993.
John Glenn prays through Ephesians 3 that the campers come to know the breadth, length, depth, and height of Christ’s love, a love that “passes knowledge.” He pictures the victory already theirs in Christ through Joshua’s captains standing on the necks of five defeated kings. The prayer closes out the 1993 Florida Family CFO.