Live Blog From The SPARK Conference – 40 Leadership Quotes And Lessons From Johnny Hunt On The Birthmarks Of A Believer

For the past three days I have been dispatched by INJOY Stewardship Solutions to attend the SPARK Conference.  SPARK Conference is a gathering for local church leaders passionate about making disciples who make disciples.  This event is structured the conference to help teams pray, process and plan together toward the launch of a disciple-making movement in their community

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The event’s final speaker was the event’s organizer Pastor Johnny Hunt.  Others. That singular focus summarizes the contagious passion that Pastor Johnny has imparted to First Baptist Church Woodstock and the countless lives across the globe his preaching and shepherding have touched. While the church has experienced significant growth under his leadership, it is growth of the person, not the platform, that continues to energize a ministry that sees its best days ahead.

The following are 40 Leadership Quotes And Lessons from his session on the birthmarks of a believer:

1. Our people really want to be involved in something but we have to lead them to it and they will follow us.
2. You can’t lead you don’t love. You can’t lead people you don’t influence.  You can’t lead people you don’t believe in.
3. I want to use my influence to help people succeed.
4. You can’t exhaust Almighty God’s potential to give through you.
5. It’s in the moment we make crazy decisions and we have no idea what God wants to do through us.
6. When a woman gets married, on average she lives 1.5 years less. When a man gets married, he lives an average of 1.7 years more. The average life expectancy for a man is 78 years old.
7. We’ve never done a better job defining the Gospel and never done a worse job declaring it.
8. We have confused decisions with disciples.
9. The Bible would start in present tense – who I am. Christianity in America is about past decisions with no present evidence.
10. Get a life. It’s not judgmental.  It’s the Bible.
11. The question is not are you saved forever. It’s were you ever saved at all.
12. When you are called out, you stand out.
13. The reason I’m telling the story 46 years later is Jesus really changed me.
14. In the church today 60% of the people never show up.
15. The church used to be a force for evangelism. Today it is a field of evangelism. – Billy Graham
16. Work of Faith –
17. When you get saved, God forgave your sins past, present and future. When He died on the cross, all your sins were in the future.
18. When you get saved, He comes to live within you. My heart is not a hotel. He does not check-in and check-out. – Adrian Rogers.  I now have God’s nature within me.
19. I don’t think anything can help race relations more than the grace of Jesus Christ.
20. The way you know who you are is by what you do.
21. The work God did in you He begins to do with you and through you.
22. Labor of Love –
23. When I got saved, God became my father.
24. When I got saved, God gave me you as a family. I’m going to Heaven because of God as my father.  I’m going mature because of my family.
25. If you don’t love the brethren, you abide in death.
26. The Patience of Hope –
27. There is perseverance. Christians hold fast to their hope until the end.
28. God initiated your salvation… He convicted me.
29. Conviction is a work inside of you where God shows you his holiness.
30. He chose you so you could choose Him. – Adrian Rogers
31. Nobody will ever get saved without the Gospel.
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33. God used the Gospel to have a work of faith, labor of love, and the patience of hope. That’s the power fo the Gospel.
34. People who get saved in your church often grow to the level of the people already there.
35. When you get saved you don’t know what to do so you suck the life out of other believers until you learn to such life out of Jesus. – Oswald Chambers
36. Christianity is not a fair-weather religion. Christians get cancer too.
37. They have joy in the midst of suffering.  That’s how you know they’re a Christian.
38. When you really have Jesus, you don’t quit when it gets tough. You press in.
39. You can’t turn from your idols. You don’t have the power to.  You look to God and get enablement.
40. When’s the last time you went to be and thought, “He could come tonight.”

Pastor Johnny is just an incredible leader.  What an event this has been!

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