This week I’m enjoying time with extended family for Easter. The kids and grandbabies are here, and we’re having a wonderful time making memories.
But here are a couple places you can find me both online and in person in the near future:
I spoke about a very famous dreamer at the Crystal Cathedral recently.
Two of the four messages I taught at are live on The Hour of Power.
For free, you can watch on streaming video or read transcripts. Also check your local TV listings for the next two episodes.
In south Florida this weekend? I’ll be preaching at Christ Fellowship Church for Easter Services.
Saturday evening: Royal Palm Campus, 5 and 7 pm.
Sunday morning: Stuart Campus, 8 am, 10 am and 12 pm
Click here for directions to all campuses. (Note: Different service times for Easter.)
Want to discuss my new book with others online?
The folks at Crystal Cathedral have started a book club with Put Your Dream to the Test as its first selection. Join the discussion here.
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Have a wonderful week and a meaningful Easter celebration.
9 responses so far ↓
1 Deborah // Apr 8, 2009 at 5:02 pm
I’m very dissapointed in Mr. Maxwell due to the fact, my PREVIOUS church has used HIS material to grow the church as a leader under oath given as a reference by Maxwell in “The Law of Solid Ground”. My husband believes the Christ is our covenant and we don’t need to use Maxwells material to make a covenant with God! Due to this, my husband and I no longer attend this church, because he could not take the oath as Maxwell suggested! SICK!
2 Charlie Wetzel // Apr 9, 2009 at 6:50 am
To Deborah:
I’m John Maxwell’s writer and I worked with him on both editions of “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership” which is the book that contains The Law of Solid Ground. There is no reference to an oath in that law, so I’m not sure what you’re referring to. Maybe someone else added that to the material you received?
3 Deborah // Apr 10, 2009 at 6:47 pm
Hello Charlie,
First, thank you for your response. This is what my previous pastor wrote in the covenant for the church leadership refering to John Maxwell.
“In my leadership Bible by John Maxwell he makes this statement in regards to “The Law of Solid Ground: God Swore by Himself”. Hebrews 6:13-18
When God made a promise to Abraham, both took an oath. God not only kept His promise, but could find no better way to communicate His good faith than to use His own name. Leaders whose word is as good as bond personify both intergrity and trustworthiness”.
Then, the pastor wrote this,
It is one of my ___church desires for our leadership team in 2009 to personify our leadership coveant. we must be men of our word and especially when we make a covenant with God and our Congregation because we commit ourselves to do this in His name.
It then ends as “please be advised that we will have to give an account some day to our God. Now, I know that John Maxwell of course did not write this, only that the context was taken out of his statement, The Law of Solid Ground. Strong, reputable people, have a great influence on their words and stimulate action in their writings powerful enough, to use the word Covenant in a whole new direction. Christ is our only Covenant. Perhaps, Mr. Maxwell, should have a disclaimer in his books nothing should ever be used in material for church doctrines. This has truly sickend me, and dissapointed me, in my previous pastor. NO ONE CAN KEEP a covenant, and that is why Christ came.
Mr. Maxwell should have stated, that ALL of God’s Covenants involved
“Blood”.
Thank you, and God Bless, Debbie
4 James Harris // Apr 14, 2009 at 11:09 pm
To John’s Blog Administrator,
Have the courage to leave posts that might not paint John in the most favorable light. A blog is open dialogue and should not be filtered. Your removal of negative commentary reflects the true purpose of this blog. Let freedom of speech in good taste stay on the blog. I’m sure John’s a big enough boy to handle it.
5 Thomas Price // Apr 21, 2009 at 12:55 am
I want to here about your work with WWDB April 17th, 18th, and 19th. I was there. I loved your talk. Put Your Dream to the Test – I am living the Dream.
6 Holly // Apr 27, 2009 at 8:13 pm
Deborah,
Mr. Maxwell cannot control what people do with his material any more than God controls what people do with His. People use the Bible in ways it should not be used but I doubt you blame God for that. It is not Mr. Maxwell’s fault that your previous pastor used his materials in what you percieved as a wrong way. Did God put disclaimers in the Bible? If so, do people listen to them? UM NO! It sounds to me like you should go talk it out with your previous pastor and see if you misunderstood him. It is good for leadership of the church to stand up together and believe in the same things. You say we can’t keep covenants but a convenant is just a promise. I keep my promises, don’t you? Just a thought, take it or leave it.
7 Deborah // May 3, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Hello Holly,
Yes, you are very right, Mr. Maxwell cannot control what people do with his content. And again you are very right, people do use the bible in ways
it should not be used.
I do keep my promises, but to make a Covenant under Oath before God is wrong. If I should break a promise
under the Convenant under Oath before Him, then who becomes the judge? FYI, God takes Convenants
extremely seriously especially under
Oath to Him. Look up in a Concordance how many times the word Convenant is mentioned.
The sad part, is that in our previous church my husband could not keep the Convenant and therefore did not
make it. That is o.k. we now know that God has blessed us to another church. I think you missed the whole point in what I was saying.
Under that Convenant my husband had to take was to be at ALL church services on Sunday, Sunday School, Worship, Sunday evening prayer and Sunday evening worship 52 weeks
a year and all the other church
activites there. My husband’s career takes him out of state on occasions and that is why he couldn’t make a promise unto God to be at every service and other various reasons.
Thank you for your effort in trying
to state your point.
Bless you
8 DAVID // May 3, 2009 at 5:01 pm
Matthew Henry’s Concise Commentary
Galatians
3:15-18 The covenant God made with Abraham, was not done away by the giving the law to Moses. The covenant was made with Abraham and his Seed. It is still in force; Christ abideth for ever in his person, and his spiritual seed, who are his by faith. By this we learn the difference between the promises of the law and those of the gospel. The promises of the law are made to the person of every man; the promises of the gospel are first made to Christ, then by him to those who are by faith ingrafted into Christ. Rightly to divide the word of truth, a great difference must be put between the promise and the law, as to the inward affections, and the whole practice of life. When the promise is mingled with the law, it is made nothing but the law. Let Christ be always before our eyes, as a sure argument for the defence of faith, against dependence on human righteousness.
9 Evan Money // May 5, 2009 at 4:17 pm
Just the fact that Charlie Wetzel responded to this blog is a testament to how much they really care.
The can of worms has been opened already but I would give John and Charlie the benefit of the doubt, they really just want to add value to leaders. Sadly leaders are human and so am I.
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