Matt Maddix
 

Matt Maddix of Soulwinner Bootcamp -

Anyone know his current status or affiliation? He does a lot motivational speaking...

Is he Pentecostal?

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Never heard of him.

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What? The guy actually posted here awhile back, I think.

He's UPC or at least independent.
http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...ad.php?t=19273
http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...ead.php?t=7613
http://www.apostolicfriendsforum.com...ad.php?t=37093

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I think he is backslid.

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How far did he slide?

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Saw a post sometime back where he was distancing himself from Pentecostals and discussing the number of days he had went without drinking alcohol.

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His "preaching" has no cross, no repentance, humility or self denial. His message is very "self" driven.

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His son was seen on twitter I believe, used the f bomb a lot.

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He was distancing himself because he is a drinker?

Probably believes Billy Graham is in heaven sharing a cigar with Charles Spurgeon.

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F Bombs?

Are those the ones that bring forth Sulphur Demons?

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Haha. No. Profanity.

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Good question. I did not know he had left the UPC but have not seen or heard anything about him in a long time. It seemed when he went through his divorce he just tried to keep on going without missing a beat.

If he has morally fallen I take no joy in it although he was one of my least favorite preachers and is one that would make me ashamed to be associated with. All of the wild flips, somersaults, etc acting like a nutcase while behind the pulpit were just nuts.

On the other hand I had read where when he pastored in Florida his church had many differnt kinds of outreaches to the community that i did think were great. I am talking meeting some physical needs with no strings attached for folks to see christians showing the love of Christ as an example. I believe they gave a lot of turkeys away to the poor at Thanksgiving, and maybe cold bottles of water on hot days at busy stoplights.

Now I am curious and will have to see if the google machine has any updates on Jumping Matt Maddix.

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Here is some info from google;

https://teammaddix.clickfunnels.com/optin13923119

https://www.facebook.com/matt.maddix

https://maddixpublishing.com/mp-home

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An acquaintance of mine pastors a small home missions church in Alaska. within the last year he had Matt Maddix there to preach, so he does still do at least some preaching. I never heard anything more about the "revival" after this pastor talked up having him come for weeks. No reports of anything really. Maybe that is telling, maybe it isn't.

From my POV, I went to both Maddix and his son's Facebook pages a few months ago when a local pastor was advertising his Maddix Publishing business. Here is what I noticed from spending way WAAAYYYY too much time on both pages.

First, almost 0 mention at all of Jesus, Apostolic churches, going to church, being a minister, promoting any home church or any church at all. Red flag number 1.

Next, almost every post is about nothing but money and success. All about how much success he wants. How hard he works for it. How he wants you to hire him to come speak to your company and make you successful. Constant flow of posts about all these other "self help" gurus like Tony Robbins and Grant Cardone that he hob knobs with now. How he and his son are always flying to California or Malibu or (insert fancy rich place here) to be with some other big name rich celebrity self help coach.

Finally, and most annoying to me, he constantly pimps his son as the greatest teenager in history because he writes books and is going to make a million dollars by his 18th birthday or some such nonsense. I don't have the stomach to hear a teenager with no real life experience giving self help advice. Apparently there is a market for it though as this kid sells these dumb books.

Overall, I hesitate to judge only on social media posts because perhaps they have chosen to keep their faith a secret and use social media only for business and promoting their livelihood. But my gut tells me the guy went through a very bad situation/divorce, something went bad with the church and so he washed his hand so fit and now just embraces the "get rich and try to encourage and build up people and that will be enough to satisfy and save you" mentality. The guys does a lot of feeding the hungry and homeless. Awesome. You can still find yourself damned for eternity while feeding the homeless. Get yourself and you kid in a good church and get your spiritual lives right and focused instead of chasing more money and name recognition.

I don't know him so I can't say for sure. What I can say is that his and his kid's pages make me sad and sometimes disgusted that a guy who was working very hard for the Kingdom (even if I didn't agree with some of his methods) now seems to only strive to build his and his kids little castles on earth.

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:heeheehee

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OUCH!

Was Charles Spurgeon a smoker? Which reminds me, Dr. Gene Scott would preach and smoke at the SAME TIME on public TV when I lived in CA many years again.

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I watched a few minutes of a video promoting his publishing business and what jumped out at me was him promoting that if you bought his publishing package him and his 15 year old son would guide you. I thought to myself this is not a sales pitch that appeals to me. I don't know too many adults who feel a 15 year old is equipped to guide them in a business venture.

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I had some dealings with him back in the 90's when he was a popular, up and coming Evangelist in the UPCI. A nice, sincere guy. But he was symptomatic of what is wrong often times with our views on "revival". He would literally JUMP up on the pulpit while preaching, in one leap. It was these kinds of theatrics that impressed people and made him in demand, not the substance of his message. "Oh if we just get a guy in here like Maddix, we will have revival!" is what I often heard.

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Spurgeon would puff on a cigar on occasion, but stopped the practice. Different time and culture. Why anyone would want to misrepresent him like that to you is beyond me. But some Apostolics only feel secure when putting other groups down.

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It was "those kind of theatrics" that I saw watching him on a POA webcast of a Sunday night service a few years ago that made me think he was a nutcase.

It astounds me that this kind of nonsense appeals to some people. I think this guy has probably found his niche hawking positive thinking and book publishing.

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Are any of these "theatrics" on video? Links?

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3:20

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AcA4aj_l_VU

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So, the guy was all hung ho about evangelism, and now he's doing the Tony Robbins thing?

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Yes.

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What a fake.

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Could it be, THE ONLY FAKE ONE IS YOU?

During that time when Matt Maddix spent passionately trying to reach the world with Acts 2:38 and follow up bible studies, feeding the homeless, widows ministry, Saturday outreach mowing neighborhood lawns etc, as a venue for the gospel, in the best way he knew how, all you seem to do is try to put everyone, including him, in hell, for not obeying your errorless, flawless, perfected, ungood news of your 4 and no more, un-gospel. And he’s the fake?

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Emphasis on the word “spent”

Jim, go put on your pajamas because you must be dreaming. :heeheehee

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Sadly, this is the kind of stuff... nevermind.

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Do you go to a UPCI church?

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I knew MM at Bible School. His dorm room was across from mine. He had a large chart on his wall with names of people he met in stores or on the street. He would mark the chart for Home Bible Studies taught, when they were baptized or filled with the HG and others he met through them. Every night before going to bed and every morning when we woke up, we could hear MM praying in his dorm room. He spoke with most anyone he met - clerk at a store counter, homeless on the street and others.

I didn't have much contact with him after leaving school in the mid 90s. I spoke with him on the phone back in '07 or so, when he was still doing the Soul Winner's Bootcamp.

I won't speak badly of him, because he was a good friend. The MM I knew wasn't fake. He loved God and loved people.

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Bro, he was your friend, then I apologize to YOU if I offended YOU.

Whatever he was once, didn't make it to the BOTT pulpit. That was a completely ridiculous display of monkey shines. I don't know the guy from Adam's house cat, but first impressions are lasting ones. Again, I love you, and my apologies are to you.

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MM was sincere and passionate about souls.
However, he took his eyes off the main thing and that led to personal situations sending him astray.
I hope that some day he finds his way back.
And if anyone still has him preaching for them, all they are getting is a water from a broken cistern.

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No offense taken. The BOTT message with MM standing on the pulpit wasn't what I remembered of him. The videos I've seen recently on Youtube of MM aren't what I remember of him either.

I agree it's ridiculous when preachers use theatrics (standing on the pulpit). A year or two before going to bible school, I visited the school during an open house weekend. Bro. AM preached one of the nights. The services were at New Life in Bridgeton. IIRC either Jim Roam still pastored then or it had just changed to Jerry Jones. Anyway, during one part of the message, AM ran across the top of about 10 or 12 pews. I thought for sure he was going to fall, but he didn't. Powerful message, but didn't need the pew run.

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*bump for....

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Why?

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SMH.. Forward rolls in the Name of Jesus?

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At the circus maybe,but not at church..