Social Justice

Carson-Newman College

Jefferson City, TN

February 22, 2011

Dr. Tony Campolo

Carson-Newman College

Chapel

Jefferson City, TN

February 22, 2011

  1. Joke about the woman who asked Tony “do you remember me?”
  2. Jesus came to declare that the Kingdom of God is at hand
  3. Isaiah 65:17- The Kingdom is described- children will not die in infancy
  4. Story about when Tony visited a Zimbabwe where kids died overnight on the street
  5. Joke: You know you’re old when your wife says “lets go upstairs and have sex” and you say “I can’t do both”
  6. The Kingdom starts within you
  7. Joke: You don’t have to be Baptist to go to Heaven… but why take a chance
  8. Christ came into the world to create a people whom he could work through to change the world that is into the world that ought to be
  9. Story that Fred Craddock tells about the greyhound dog that stopped racing because he realized that the rabbit he was chasing wasn’t real
  10. Tony talks about his book “20 Hot Potatoes Christians are Afraid to Touch” and the chapter on if Christians can have a BMW
  11. Story about Tony’s Pentecostal high school girlfriend and the time Tony visited a Pentecostal church
  12. Other ways of praying- Centering Prayer
  13. God knows what you have need of before you even ask
  14. Story about when Tony pastored a church, prayed aloud, and his street language from Philadelphia surfaced in the prayer
  15. Centering Prayer: Being still surrendering to the Spirit
  16. Isaiah 40- “That that wait on the Lord shall renew their strength”
  17. Story about the plane ride to Chicago where Tony leaned on the guy next to him to let the power of the Spirit flow into the guy
  18. Romans 8- “The same power that was in Christ Jesus and raised him from the dead, that same power shall be in your mortal bodies”
  19. Story about the time Tony through a birthday party for Agnes a prostitute at three in the morning
  20. Are you going to chase a rabbit that isn’t real or are you ready to respond to Paul who said “I beseech you therefore brethren to present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable which is your reasonable service...”
  21. There is a difference between a believer and a disciple
  22. Story about Blondin the tightrope walker who carried Harry Caldwell on his shoulders on a tightrope across Niagara Falls
  23. Story about the 3 malnourished Haitian kids
  24. Tony talks about Mission Year and Compassion International
  25. Story about Student Recognition Day at Tony’s black church
  26. Titles vs. Testimonies

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