Camps Farthest Out Messages on the subject of Authority.
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Barbara Ann Chase closes a session at the 2000 Arkansas CFO with Judges 4, tracing Deborah’s word to Barak and Jael’s killing of Sisera with a tent peg. She then uses Corrie ten Boom’s image of a ringing bell to teach forgiveness as a decision, not just a feeling.
Al Durrance recalls a small girl at St. Cloud who told her grandmother to leave because he was preaching love while sounding angry. He teaches from there that Christ’s authority always sets people free rather than binding them, and that forgiveness is a love stretched elastic enough to fit imperfect people. He gave the talk at the Florida Family CFO in 1999.
John Hobbs recounts handing out anointing oil and Gideon Bibles with his friend Kenny, the two of them shutting down a Roy Rogers restaurant for two hours. He then turns to Philippians 2 to call campers to serve and obey as Jesus did, in a talk to the 2003 Florida Family CFO.
John Hobbs works through Philippians 2 on taking the mind and humility of Christ. He illustrates dependence on God with the missionary Mary Herring, who felt guilty for watching Olympic ice dancing until she said the Lord told her he enjoyed it with her. He also draws on his own daughter Joelle. He closes with a call to stand together as the body of Christ at the Florida Family CFO in 1998.
A spinning amusement-park disc from his boyhood is Cliff Richmond’s picture for the North Florida CFO. Riders near the center withstood any speed, while those on the rim were flung off. Jesus alone, he preaches, is Lord over sin, sickness and death.
John Hobbs preaches to the 2003 Florida Family CFO on the difference between authority and power. Walking through Luke 4 and Romans 8, he shows that believers already have authority as God’s children but still need the Holy Spirit’s power to live it out. He recalls standing helpless at a grieving Marine family’s home early in his ministry, before he had received that power himself.
Continuing a message he began earlier at the Arkansas CFO in 2004, Jack Sheffield teaches on the authority carried in God’s word. He retells how Dodie Osteen was healed of terminal liver cancer by repeatedly declaring “by his stripes I am healed.” He also tells of a woman with emphysema who was healed after he prayed she would “eat bread” instead of the stones of her disappointment.
Jack Sheffield preaches that the devil fears the campers’ God-given authority, or “badge,” more than any weapon. He illustrates it with his own account of coming to Christ in 1973, and with the story of Holy Hubert Lindsey, who was badly beaten while confronting Black Panthers during the Berkeley riots. The message was given at the 2004 Arkansas CFO.
Iverna Tompkins opens a five-part Lamentations series at the Missouri CFO in 1979. She warns that America is a “sleeping giant,” less prepared for Christ’s return than any generation before it. The church, she says, holds an authority it no longer knows how to use.
Anne White teaches that campers must confess sin before praying against the enemy, as an electrician puts on insulated gloves before a live wire. She tells how a man with multiple sclerosis was healed after asking himself “what is it I don’t want to do.” She also tells how a friend rescued her own book manuscript from a publisher’s sabotage. She gave the message at the Tennessee CFO in 1970.