In this video, Doug Clay moderates a live Q&A with Dr. George O. Wood about a variety of topics related to the Assemblies of God.
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Here are the time codes for the various questions Dr. Wood answered:
- 01:27 Reflections on participation in a pastors conference in Perm, Russia
- 04:58 Installation of Greg Mundis, executive director of Assemblies of God World Missions (I’m interviewing Mundis on Thursday, October 6, at 1:00 p.m. [Central] on MinistryDirect.com/live. Email your questions to [email protected], Tweet them using #MinistryDirect, or enter them in the Facebook interaction tool on the live page. You can watch Mundis share his testimony to the AG national office chapel here, beginning at 18:20.)
- 06:20 Defense of Rick Warren against charges that he’s “New Age”
- 10:20 Progress of AG Trust, the development arm of the Assemblies of God
- 14:43 The biggest threat to the Fellowship today
- 19:30 How the consolidation of Springfield schools (AGTS, CBC, and Evangel) promotes good leadership
- 21:13 The relationship between “believing” and “belonging” (Related: From Belonging to Becoming:The Power of Loving People Like Jesus Did by Mike Clarensau)
- 26:51 Mistakes young ministers make, and how to avoid them; and how Dr. Wood moves from inspiration to delivery in sermon preparation (Related: Road Trip Leadership: Mileposts Along My Way in Ministry by Dr. George O. Wood. See also his Enrichment article, “How Expository Preaching Helps the Church” and “The Pentecostal Pulpit of the 21st Century.”)
- 30:40 Advice to someone going to seminary and entering vocational ministry mid-life
- 32:37 What the Fellowship does to intentionally minister to marriages and families
- 34:05 How the AG can better promote AG US Missions at AG schools
- 36:35 Advice to AG pastors who publicly criticize other AG pastors, and to the AG pastors that are criticized
- 40:40 Whether the prosperity gospel is growing within the US AG
- 43:13 How to pray for Dr. Wood
- 44:08 Update on consolidation of Springfield schools and dialogue with the Higher Learning Commission (HLC)
- 45:14 Preparing for church during the holiday season, whether to cancel church when Christmas falls on Sunday
- 47:31 Whether playing secular music in a worship service is acceptable
- 53:11 What currently occupies Dr. Wood’s mind and heart as he leads the Fellowship
- 54:54 Exciting developments in the Spanish-speaking districts of the Fellowship
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