Tuesday, January 11, 2011
A. Graham Maxwell, 1921-2010
http://www.blip.tv/file/4611692
Video: A Biographical and Theological Conversation with Graham Maxwell
http://www.spectrummagazine.org/blog/2010/12/03/video-biographical-and-theological-conversation-graham-maxwell
http://www.pineknoll.org/
What We Believe -- A message from Graham Maxwell
I believe that the most important of all Christian beliefs is the one that brings joy and assurance to God's friends everywhere -- the truth about our Heavenly Father that was confirmed at such cost by the life and death of His Son.
God is not the kind of person His enemies have made Him out to be -- arbitrary, unforgiving and severe. Jesus said, "If you have seen Me, you have seen the Father." God is just as loving and trustworthy as His Son, just as willing to forgive and heal. Though infinite in majesty and power, our Creator is an equally gracious Person who values nothing higher than the freedom, dignity, and individuality of His intelligent creatures -- that their love, their faith, their willingness to listen and obey may be freely given. He even prefers to regard us not as servants but as friends.
This is the truth revealed through all the books of Scripture. This is the everlasting Good News that wins the trust and admiration of God's loyal children throughout the universe.
Like Abraham and Moses -- the ones God spoke of as His trusted friends -- God's friends today want to speak well and truly of our Heavenly Father. We covet as the highest of all commendations the words of God about Job: "He has said of Me what is right."
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I am saddened to hear of his demise. He had not been in good health for the past couple of years or so from what I heard.
The last time I saw and talked to him was at the home of Elton and Evelyn Wallace the day before Elton passed away in [?] 1998. I think they were in the same graduating class in PUC [Angwin], 1943[?]. It was alumni weekend in PUC. The scheduled Hour of Worship speaker did not make it for reasons I do not know, but AGM graciously accepted the challenge to deliver the sermon. He came to
the Wallace home that afternoon.
I had the privilege of introducing him as our guest speaker during a WUSAC [became WESNAC, now AWESNA] convention in Montclair in the 1980s. In my introduction, I said that I date my Bible reading/studying as "AM and PM: ante-Maxwell and post-Maxwell". You see, he was my Biblical Philosophy professor at PUC when I was a freshman there schoolyear 1959-1960. He always
emphasized that when we read the Bible, we should always consider the context of any passage and the words used when it was translated. After the meeting, he grinned telling me he liked the "AM and PM" bit. [I think Ritchie Carbajal
also spoke some words about him.]
One of the EGW passages he required us to memorize is the one that says "When the character of Christ is reproduced in his church, then he shall come to claim
them as his own" [may not be verbatim; SC p69, I think].
AGM was a superb teacher. His style of preaching was different, like conversational. He tolerated freshmen antics. He was born and raised in England, but I remember once in class, a couple of guys were listening to a play by play broadcast of a baseball game [not an English game] between the San
Francisco Giants and LA Dodgers via a transitor radio. Instead of
reprimanding them, he asked them to turn the volume up so he and the whole class can also listen. Another instance of his tolerance of freshmen antics was during the trial of Caryl Chessman, the so-called "Redlight Bandit" who serially raped prostitutes in red light districts. Some guys were listening to the proceedings via transistor radio. Again, instead of reprimanding them, he asked to have the volume turned up so all of us heard the live broadcast. [It may have been the verdict or penalty phase of the trial; I do not remember now.]
Onie
[Honesto C. Pascual, Jr.]
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