January 09, 2009
Seven Laws
I just finished the Law of Order at City Church. Probably, will be one of my last “live” teaching of the Seven Laws, since we now have the seminar in a curriculum and more of my attention is demanded to work on FivestarMan. I will miss the excitement that people have during the seminar when the revelation of how practical these laws are for their lives. Testimonies of how the seminar “opened up” their eyes to see the little things that they have been doing has sabotaged their own success.
When I started teaching the Seven Laws nine years ago, I came across pretty hard. People struggled with it because of my severe objection to their obduracy. I was motivated by the lack of honor and dignity that they felt toward the Church. The Church should live at a higher level that we have in the past. The dignity of our call, the honor of our Lord, and the supreme importance of our mission should compel us to do what we do with excellence.
Excellence is not perfection. I am not perfect and sometimes embarrassingly prone to do things slothfully. I have to constantly push myself to take the extra 10 or 20 percent effort to do it with excellence. I am very conscience of the fact that I have to constantly work on “me.” The fact is, I have reread my own book. Not because I personally enjoy reading my stuff but because I need faith to follow. I know that the Laws govern me.
My hope is that the Seven Laws don’t just fade away and are put on the back shelf. That is not my intention. I may look for new ways to market it because I like seeing Pastors take churches to new levels of glory. I like to see entrepreneurs double and triple their successes. I also like to see housewives apply the Seven Laws to making their home a place of hospitality for their own family.
I would love to hear back for you. If you have a comment or a testimony concerning what the Seven Laws has done, let me know.