Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American pastor Johnny Hunt.
Last updated on November 23, 2024.
Johnny M. Hunt is an American evangelical Christian pastor, author, and former president of the Southern Baptist Convention. He was also formerly senior pastor of First Baptist Church Woodstock, in Woodstock, Georgia. He was the first Native American president of the SBC. He previously served as the Senior Vice President of the Evangelism & Leadership division of the North American Mission Board—the church planting and domestic evangelism arm of the SBC—speaking nationally to church leaders and congregants about sharing the Christian Gospel.
The godly are not exempt from trouble but are preserved in it.
Any sin you cover, God uncovers. Any sin you uncover, God covers.
You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.
Will you ask God to bring you to the place where you're willing to be willing?
When Jesus Christ forgives you of sin, He never brings it back up.
Satan will try to use our troubles to worry and weaken us. But God uses them to strengthen us.
I think one of the reasons our court system wants to remove The 10 Commandments is because The 10 Commandments reminds us we are sinners.
I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I'll be glad I did then.
Most people don't have someone to believe in them.
Everyone has influence. Use it wisely.
That's what wrong. We've got people whose wallets have not been baptized.
Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.
You can't receive forgiveness unless you let God deal with your deceit.
It is estimated over 80% of all illnesses today are spiritual in nature.
When a person is carrying their sin, it can be quite a load...I don't know what else to do with your sin but confess and ask God to forgive it.
You can't compartmentalize unforgiveness. You can't control sin. You can't manage sin. Sin is never satisfied with the amount of you it possesses.
Influencers refuse to leave the world they way they found it. They leave a legacy.
You can know you're a Christian if, not are you dealing with your sin before God but is God dealing with you about your sin.
Everyone of you got to where you are because someone influenced you.
You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.
The blessing of influence is helping others succeed. It is lifting up Christ with your established platform.
If you choose to be obedient to God, God meets you with divine enablement.
Don't ever forget where God found you.
God... Please keep my eyes focused on the only target worth hitting - Christlikeness!
80% of the people who come into a Christ-following relationship is because a friend, co-worker, family member or neighbor invited them to church.
God may not allow you to touch thousands but He may allow you to touch one who will touch thousands.
Sin regardless of how you get there is a vulnerable and a dangerous place to be. Living in unforgiveness is living in an unsafe place.
In order to receive a pardon you must plead guilty.
When you get honest with God, you can exchange the fig leaves you used to cover your sin with the righteousness of Jesus Christ.
What a blessing to live to be missed.
You have to experience grace to be one who knows how to give it.
Human speculation is no match for divine revelation.
There is no record in the Bible of a weak man falling.
The beginning of knowledge is to know thyself a sinner.
All our good works and good intentions can't solve our sin problem.
The most miserable man in this room tonight is the Christian who is not right with Him.
You don't ever have to teach a kid to do wrong. You have to teach them to do right.
What blame did Jesus have when He took the full blame for your sin?
Integrity - No one will ever use conjuctions talking about you. "He is a good preacher... but..."
More lives are influenced by emulation than exhortation.
As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
If God gives you a platform where you're influencing others, you need to steward it well.
You're never more like Jesus than when you're giving.
What seems over your head is always under His feet.
Until you start thinking right, you will never start behaving right. Repentance always deals with the changing of the mind.
God received from me something He didn't have on His own. My sin. I received something from God I didn't have on my own. His righteousness.
Anytime you commit sin and God deals with you, you have the opportunity to confess it. If you don't confess it, you only have one option but to cover it up.
Influence is about being genuine.
God gives enabling grace to go on.
God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.
We ought to love the sinner and hate OUR sin.
Some people are into position, not the mission.
If a preacher tells you how God says you are, I don't see how you can say that's bad preaching.
You cannot lead people you do not influence.
Sin will do a number on you.
It's not the truth that you know, but the truth that you obey that matters.
There's a special place in hell for what some people have done but there's also a special place in God's heart for their forgiveness.
You can't touch the world by giving up a Starbucks...We've dumbed it down.
Men die the way they lived.
Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? What have you done with their influence?