Messages spoken at various Camps Farthest Out by Johnny Johnson.
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Johnny Johnson uses a vineyard hedged against foxes to argue that small, unconfessed sin, not the obvious kind, is what quietly kills a Christian’s spirit. He applies an oak tree and rope image to show how a wandering spouse or child is drawn back gently rather than snapped straight. He also tells how his daughter’s anger over a flag burned at her school led the boys responsible to buy the school a new one. The talk comes from the 1985 Florida Family CFO.
On July 4 at the Florida Family CFO in 1985, Johnny Johnson tells how a red-headed stranger let him carry a full-sized American flag in a Chicago parade as a boy. He then traces the First Amendment to a Baptist preacher named Leland, who sponsored James Madison for office to win freedom to worship. He closes with his wife’s high-risk pregnancy, when she refused the abortion her doctors urged and delivered a healthy son.
Johnny Johnson walks through the Lord’s Prayer phrase by phrase as a path out of personal bondage, retelling how a stuttering insurance salesman became a top seller and a paralyzed veteran became the top pot and pan salesman in his territory. He also tells of a Marine corporal who ran through sniper fire for a wounded friend and years later returned missing both arms. At the Florida Family CFO in 1985, he closes by having campers lay their bondages on a table: cigarettes, candy, notes of unforgiveness.
Johnny Johnson recalls being turned away from a childhood friend’s front door for being black, and how the boy’s mother invited him back in and reconciled them. He also describes his own baptism in the Holy Spirit years later. The talk was given at the Florida Family CFO in 1985.
At the Florida Family CFO in 1985, Johnny Johnson traces fear and love back to a child’s first two years. He illustrates it with his father’s claim that dark skin kept young Johnson’s brain cool, while sunlight overheated his white classmates’ brains and wore them out.
Johnny Johnson describes a mysterious officer who calmed rioting sailors aboard the USS Kitty Hawk and then could not be found when the crew was lined up afterward. Speaking to the Florida Family CFO in 1985, he uses the story to define love as forgiveness acted out, not just felt.