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Ask the Superintendent (October 5, 2011) with @GeorgeOWood and @DougClay


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

2 thoughts on “Ask the Superintendent (October 5, 2011) with @GeorgeOWood and @DougClay”

  1. Im sorry Dr. Wood but I disagree with using the devils tools to do God’s work. Using Satanic music in the house of God is just wrong. You can spin it any way you want to but Jesus never used any tool laced with evil, developed by satanic people to win those sinners he met with. I wouldnt judge anyones conversion but the bible I read says the drawing and conviction is from the Holy spirit, not demonicly influenced music or any other tool.

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    1. I’m not a doctor, so just call me George Paul. Or perhaps you were disagreeing with Dr. George O. Wood, AG general superintendent (and my dad). If so, you might want to contact him with your concerns. As for your comments, I’m not sure it’s correct to assume that all secular music is “laced with evil, developed by satanic people” or “demonicly influenced.” Some may be, but all? Was Amy Grant’s “Baby, Baby” laced with evil and demonically influenced? Was she a satanic person? Moreover, how should we account for Paul approvingly citing two Greek philosophers (Aratus and Epimenides) in his Areopagus sermon (Acts 17:28)?

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