31 Leadership Quotes And Lessons On The Money, Possessions and Generosity From Dr. Johnny Hunt

This evening I had the wonderful privilege of being part of a group of Christian leaders who heard the incomparable senior pastor of First Baptist Church Woodstock (GA), Dr. Johnny Hunt discuss his personal journey regarding money, possessions and generosity.   This was part of an event put on by INJOY Stewardship Solutions called Capital Campaign University.

As a leader, you cannot give people what you do not have.  Pastor Johnny’s thoughts will cause you to take a personal inventory on how you steward all God has entrusted you with.  The following are 31 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Dr. Johnny Hunt On The Money, Possessions and Generosity.  After reading, make sure you take advantage of a special FREE resource from INJOY Stewardship.

1. Influence is the platform God gives you to help others succeed.
2. God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.
3. 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.
4. If God can save Paul, He can save anybody. If God could use me, God could use anybody.
5. I’ve never missed anything I’ve given away.
6. Who influenced you? When did they influence you? How have they influenced you? And then I ask this question, What have you done with their influence?
7. Men die the way they lived.
8. We take in more a week now than we did in two years when I first came to the church.
9. We just planted our 21st church.
10. We do a stewardship series every Sunday…at offering time.
11. As a pastor our main ministry is exhortation.
12. You must emulate the truth you exhort.
13. Lord, give us a ministry where the sun will never set.
14. You can’t touch the world by giving up a Starbucks…We’ve dumbed it down.
15. People want to be part of something bigger than they are.
16. Move with the movers.
17. Out on a limb? That’s where the fruit is.
18. God wants an opportunity to prove who He is.
19. I don’t know of a way to have a generous church without having a generous pastor.
20. You don’t have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.
21. I want to model generosity and touch poverty.
22. I want to live in light of eternity. I want to do now what I’ll be glad I did then.
23. Don’t ever forget where God found you.
24. Worship, it’s not just a song I sing with my hand raised but also with a billfold I’ve laid.
25. That’s what wrong. We’ve got people whose wallets have not been baptized.
26. Would you like me to teach you how to trust God? Start with your money.
27. You do not have to protect people’s pocket books. They’ll do a better job of that than you will.
28. The greatest joy of my life is when Jesus moves on my heart and tells me to give to someone.
29. Don’t try to transport something you don’t possess…I want this truth to be incarnational.
30. Apart from Jesus I am a greedy man.
31. What a blessing to live to be missed.

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