30 Facts About Gene Scott

William Eugene Scott was an American minister and teacher who served for almost 50 years as a pastor and broadcaster in Los Angeles, California.

Gene Scott pastored the Faith Center and Wescott Christian Center and held weekly Sunday services at the Los Angeles University Cathedral.

In 1975, Gene Scott was elected pastor of Faith Center, a 45-year-old church of congregational polity in Glendale, California.

Gene Scott added a nightly live television broadcast to the network, the Festival of Faith.

Gene Scott taught at Evangel College, then assisted Oral Roberts in establishing Oral Roberts University in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Gene Scott eventually joined the Assemblies of God, a Pentecostal denomination, and served overseas as a missionary for several years.

In 1970, Gene Scott resigned his Assemblies of God credentials in good standing to focus on the Wescott Christian Center with his father, a pastor in Oroville, California.

Later, Gene Scott was elected the church's pastor by a unanimous vote of the board of Faith Center in Glendale, California.

Gene Scott's father, known as "Pop Scott", and his mother, known as "Mom Scott", assisted him at his new church.

Gene Scott was a featured speaker at its eighth annual convention in 1970, and served as its president from October 1975 to July 1984.

In 1975, while serving his Oroville ministry, Gene Scott was approached to serve as a financial consultant for the 45-year-old Faith Center church in Glendale, California, by its then pastor and founder, religious broadcaster Ray Schoch.

In 1975, Gene Scott began nightly live broadcasts, and eventually satellite broadcasts extended his services and talk shows to many countries.

Gene Scott became known as much for his stage persona as he was for his preaching skills.

Gene Scott would fill chalkboards with scriptural passages in the original Greek, Hebrew or Aramaic during his exegesis as to their meanings.

Gene Scott often played a videotape of the Statesmen Quartet singing the lively hymn "I Wanna Know" repeatedly to get viewers to contribute.

Gene Scott showed disdain for other religious broadcasters like Jerry Falwell and Jimmy Swaggart, and bristled when people referred to him as a televangelist, preferring to be regarded as a teacher and pastor.

In 1989, Gene Scott was approached by Bruce Corwin, then president of Miracle on Broadway and chairman of the Metropolitan Theatres Corporation, to restore the United Artists flagship theatre at 937 South Broadway in downtown Los Angeles.

In 1975, Gene Scott began a series of broadcasts which resulted in the creation of the University Network.

Gene Scott said that it was Scott's intelligent and fact-based approach to teaching that earned his respect and allowed him to build faith.

Gene Scott said that his earlier exposures to Christianity had had no effect, because they were mostly based on simplistic platitudes such as "God is love" which he found unconvincing.

Gene Scott is seen weekly on her own national television broadcast.

Multiple volumes of "The Dr Gene Scott Pulpit" have been published by Dolores Press for Pastor Melissa Scott.

Gene Scott was an artist and painted well over a thousand watercolors, acrylics and oils.

Gene Scott was a philatelist, once owning the Ferrer block, and an equestrian.

Gene Scott was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2000, but declined surgery and chemotherapy.

Gene Scott described his battle with the sickness to his congregation during several months of continued live broadcasts.

In February 2005, Gene Scott suffered a stroke and lapsed into a coma in Glendale Adventist Medical Center.

Gene Scott was pronounced dead at 4:30 pm PST on February 21,2005.

Gene Scott was profiled in the 1981 documentary God's Angry Man by Werner Herzog.

Gene Scott is mentioned in Mojo Nixon and Skid Roper's track "I'm Gonna Dig Up Howling Wolf", as well as in the Netflix series GLOW.