Granger Smith Podcast Episode 288:
This week Granger interviews Tony Wood about the doctrines of grace, human depravity, and God’s sovereignty in salvation. Tony emphasizes that salvation is entirely the work of God—humans are spiritually dead and unable to seek Him without divine intervention. He explains how this challenges modern views of autonomy, particularly in American culture, and often stirs discomfort around the idea of God’s control over all things, including evil and salvation.
Despite the tension between God’s sovereignty and human responsibility, Tony affirms that Scripture teaches both. He shares his personal journey from thinking he chose God to realizing that God had chosen him, seeing this truth consistently throughout the biblical narrative—from creation to Christ to the birth of the Church.
This theological shift profoundly changed Tony’s preaching. Instead of crafting messages around felt needs or cultural trends, he now practices expositional preaching—teaching the Bible verse by verse and letting Scripture shape the message. Granger and Tony agree that true church health begins in the pulpit, where God’s Word—not style, music, or production—must remain central. They encourage believers to seek churches that faithfully and deeply preach the Bible.
05:03 - Tony’s first pastoral job
06:35 – Defining an “attractional church”
11:11 – planting a new church in 2010
15:01 – how did the conversation go once you knew what you had to change?
25:04 – Changes implemented at the pulpit
28:47 – definition of seeker sensitive
30:48 – I’d rather people learn to identify a healthy church for themselves
33:10 Ads
36:52 – proper exposition or textual topic
41:55 – The congregations response to a different kind of preaching
54.50 – That is Church discipline
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