50 must seem ancient to most of you involved with camp. 50!!!!! 50 years of Jesus loving me, and 41 years of me knowing and loving HIM. Right here at camp all those years ago I fell in love with HIM. HE was here then, HE is here now. It was here at camp that I learned TRUTH. I learned the following:
“Some of my good brethren are always preaching doctrine. Well, they are right in so doing, but I would not care myself to have as the characteristic of my preaching, doctrine only. I would rather have it said,
‘He dwelt much upon the person of Christ, and seemed best pleased when he began to tell about the atonement and the sacrifice. He was not ashamed of the doctrines, he was not afraid of threatening, but he seemed as if he preached the threatening with tears in his eyes, and the doctrine solemnly as God's own word; but when he preached of Jesus his tongue was loosed, and his heart was at liberty.’
Brethren, there are some men who preach the doctrine only, who are an injury, I believe, to God's church rather than a benefit…Brethren, we should rather preach Christ than election. We love election, we love predestination, we love the great doctrines of God's word, but we had rather preach Christ than preach these. We desire to put Christ over the head of the doctrine, we make the doctrine the throne for Christ to sit on, but we dare not put Christ at the bottom, and then press him down, and overload him with the doctrines of his own word.”
Charles Spurgeon, in sermon, Christ Lifted Up.
It is this, and so much more, that has *set my heart-a-dancin’*, and freed me from so many things. Freedom in Christ is such a precious gift. It is truly YOUR gift too.
Angela Fullerton Conklin
Camper/Staff 1966-present (Whew! That’s a lot of years!)
“Some of my good brethren are always preaching doctrine. Well, they are right in so doing, but I would not care myself to have as the characteristic of my preaching, doctrine only. I would rather have it said,
‘He dwelt much upon the person of Christ, and seemed best pleased when he began to tell about the atonement and the sacrifice. He was not ashamed of the doctrines, he was not afraid of threatening, but he seemed as if he preached the threatening with tears in his eyes, and the doctrine solemnly as God's own word; but when he preached of Jesus his tongue was loosed, and his heart was at liberty.’
Brethren, there are some men who preach the doctrine only, who are an injury, I believe, to God's church rather than a benefit…Brethren, we should rather preach Christ than election. We love election, we love predestination, we love the great doctrines of God's word, but we had rather preach Christ than preach these. We desire to put Christ over the head of the doctrine, we make the doctrine the throne for Christ to sit on, but we dare not put Christ at the bottom, and then press him down, and overload him with the doctrines of his own word.”
Charles Spurgeon, in sermon, Christ Lifted Up.
It is this, and so much more, that has *set my heart-a-dancin’*, and freed me from so many things. Freedom in Christ is such a precious gift. It is truly YOUR gift too.
Angela Fullerton Conklin
Camper/Staff 1966-present (Whew! That’s a lot of years!)
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