Weekend Thoughts
August 11th, 2007 by Carl Thomas.- The AG has a new leader George Wood. My only reaction is,
“Can someone hook this guy up with a template?”Wrong George Wood. - I am using Cocomment again. There is a new version of the plugin. I stopped using it because it was slowing my page load times. I would give you a page link to my discussions but I can’t find out what it is.
- The devil hates my ministry and has launched an all out assault. If you get a word please email me.
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No weapon formed against you shall prosper and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and this is their vindication from me declares the Lord Isaiah 54:17
Isaiah 51:12-16
Since your last post on the AG I’ve had cause for extensive reflection on the AG, it’s identity, Brownsville, the election of George O. Wood, the Latter Rain etc.
My preliminary thoughts are this — The AG missed a sovereign chance to flow in revival during the Latter Rain in 1949. There were a lot of Latter Rain problems, but I believe if they had embraced it as Stanley Frodsham, and Elim and others did, that they would have kept it in balance and it would have renewed the fellowship.
This led to a proverbial 40 years in the wilderness, ending around 1989 with the fall of Bakker and Swaggart. With Brownsville, however, the deck was stacked– God put Thomas Trask, who for a denominational executive was incredibly supportive of the revival, in place just in time for what he was going to do.
In the meantime he opened the hearts of just one AG pastor and one AG evangelist/missionary and to what he was already doing in Toronto just enough, and on Father’s day 1995 He breathed on it, and the rest is history. For 5 years, God performs a major upheaval in the AG, causing pastors to hunger in a way that they hadn’t in a long time, renewing zeal for the lost, for the Pentecostal experience, and generally the vision for the denomination.
Fast forward to 2000, Trask and the executive board are under heavy heat from some of the denominationalists to get Michael Brown to become AG. Trask and Kilpatrick tell Brown to get credentials which doesn’t really seem like a big deal, but Brown believes God repeatedly says “no.” This leads to a split. At the same time the anti-revival faction of the AG puts forward Resolution 16 against the revival. Trask sends it to the doctrinal committee, and the next year they release their paper on endtime revival, which while it contains some wisdom, basically throws water on it. With these two events, Brownsville is effectively over in any local sense.
With his resignation this year, the instrument that God used to protect and encourage the revival, and unfortunately had a hand in cooling it, is gone. In his place they have put George O. Wood, who some see as the “safe” choice, same generation and all that, but on the other hand, a review of Wood’s work, shows that he has been much more on the cooling side of the revival all along. In that sense, I believe his election signals the end of an era of renewal for the AG. They did not miss God in the way that they did in 1949, but the same forces caused them to shut things before the work was done. They will continue to do God’s work for the next generation, but those who want to be in the deep waters, will have to go elsewhere.
@Will - Great analysis here.
If the AG would have followed the Latter Rain movement, they would have been perhaps the first denomination to stray from the founders vision onto the next move of God. It seems that denominations get started in a move of man then stray toward secularism.
Thanks for the contribution.
Where are the apostles and prophets?
They are still very much alive and well and working…even if many in the Ag don’t want them to!