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Blessed are those who act justly, who always do what is right. Psalms 106:3 NIV Remember me, Lord, when you show favor to your people, come to my aid when you save them, that I may enjoy the prosperity of your chosen ones, that I may share in the joy of your nation and join your inheritance in giving praise. Psalms 106:4-5 NIV You should remember the words of the Lord Jesus: ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.' Acts 20:35 “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Matthew 7:1-2 NIV “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:37-38 NIV Wherever your treasure is, there the desires of your heart will also be. Matthew 6:21 NLT “Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. Give, and it will be given to you. A good measure, pressed down, shaken together and running over, will be poured into your lap. For with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.” Luke 6:37-38 NIV HOW TO DEVELOP A HEART OF GENEROSITY But if there are any poor Israelites in your towns when you arrive in the land the Lord your God is giving you, do not be hard-hearted or tightfisted toward them. Instead, be generous and lend them whatever they need. Deuteronomy 15:7-8 NLT 1. DEAL WITH A SELFISH HEART Do not be mean-spirited and refuse someone a loan because the year for canceling debts is close at hand. If you refuse to make the loan and the needy person cries out to the Lord, you will be considered guilty of sin. Deuteronomy 15:9 WHY DID GOD INVENT GIVING? GIVING OVER ANY OTHER ACTIVITY WORKS SELFISHNESS AND GREED OUT OF OUR HEARTS People may be pure in their own eyes, but the Lord examines their motives. Proverbs 16:2 NLT when you ask, you don't get it because your motives are all wrong—you want only what will give you pleasure. James 4:3 NLT 2. DEAL WITH A GRIEVING HEART Give generously to the poor, not grudgingly, for the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do. Deuteronomy 15:10 NLT HOW DO YOU COMBAT GRIEF? YOU HAVE THE PROPER PERSPECTIVE REGARDING “YOUR” MONEY 3. DEVELOP A GENEROUS HEART Give him a generous farewell gift from your flock, your threshing floor, and your winepress. Share with him some of the bounty with which the Lord your God has blessed you. Deuteronomy 15:14 NLT HOW DO YOU WALK IN GENEROSITY? BY RENEWING OUR MINDS Don't copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Romans 12:2 NLT A heart touched by God desires to give   “I know that when I take time to talk to God and obey the promptings of the Holy Spirit I feel alive and life is joyous and exciting.” Peter Marshall   It is time for people to quit wandering, and it is time for people to connect with their God-given purpose.   “We are not saved to go to heaven. If so, why didn't we go to heaven right then? Heaven is a by-product. We are saved to tell others and to let Jesus Christ live in us.” -Jimmy Draper 4. DEVELOP A GRATEFUL HEART Remember that you were once slaves in the land of Egypt and the Lord your God redeemed you! That is why I am giving you this command. Deuteronomy 15:15 NLT live each day with holy awe and reverence throughout your time on earth. For you know that your lives were ransomed once and for all from the empty and futile way of life handed down from generation to generation. It was not a ransom payment of silver and gold, which eventually perishes, but the precious blood of Christ—who like a spotless, unblemished lamb was sacrificed for us. 1 Peter 1:17-19 TPT

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Jimmy Draper served 35 years as a pastor and 15 Years as President of LifeWay Christian Resources. He served as president of the Southern Baptist Convention for two years from 1982-84. He is now retired and remains active preaching and leading conferences and mentoring younger pastors. In “Don’t Quit Before You Finish”, Jimmy focuses on knowing that God has designed for you to be in a position of leadership and identifying the role of a leader, addressing the principles of change and other challenges leaders face. Most of the failures in leadership are self-inflicted. Failing is rarely the fault of those we serve. This book is designed to help every leader examine their own lives and implement the tools presented in this book, with the character to sustain them. http://www.jimmydraper.com

On this episode, Josh Turansky sits down with Johnny Hunt to discuss evangelism and church planting. Pastor Johnny has recently taken a leadership role at the North American Missions Board. This new role emphasizes evangelism in the local church. Here the link to the “Where’s your one” campaign. Pastor Johnny Hunt is the pastor of First Baptist Church Woodstock in Woodstock, Georgia as well as the Senior Vice President of Evangelism and Leadership for the North American Mission Board.You can find all things Johny Hunt here: https://www.johnnyhunt.comTranscriptIntro: This is the Church Planting Podcast. Thank you for tuning in! Every week, we sit down with leaders who are shaping church planting efforts. Here's your host Josh Turansky and Clint Clifton.Josh Turansky: Hey, welcome to the Church Planting Podcast. My name is Josh Turansky and I'm joined here by Clint Clifton. Clint Clifton: Clint Clifton is here. Josh Turansky: In studio. Back in your office. Clint Clifton: Back in my office.. Josh Turansky: Hey, so uhmm.. I don't know what episode number this is. But every Wednesday, Clint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: We have an episode that comes out and recently we refresh the website and launched the Facebook page. Clint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: Uhmmm..Clint Clifton: You know in less than one week like 500 people have signed up for the Facebook page that like joined on Facebook page, is that right? Josh Turansky: Yep! Yeah. I paid my friends a lot..Clint Clifton: oh! Is that how it happened? Okay, that's good. And I knew you're rolling it. Josh Turansky: exactly exactly know. So but we would love to hear from peopleYeah, we'd love to hear there's a button at the top of the Facebook page that says email us people can go to the website which is ChurchPlantingPodcast.Org and there's a contact page there's links to the social. Or sites, but it's great to get feedback. Clint Clifton: Yeah, really like that. I mean this weekI got a few emails that were really encouraging and uhmm.. I'd like some feedback that's things you'd like to see more on the podcast or just kind of so advice suggestions. You know, when you do something like this is a one-sided conversation. We're putting a ton of content out and you get very little feedbackBack, so whatever we get back a really meaningful to us. So be sure to send an email that's just make a comment on something you heard or Josh Turansky: What could we cover more in? What questions do you have? Yep? Clint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: good. So again ChurchPlantingPodcast.Org will is the website and then from there you can get to all of our different social rights goodClint Clifton: Yeah, thanks Josh Turansky: On this episode. We're going to be talking with Johnny hunt. Clint Clifton: Yeah, Johnny Hunt!Josh Turansky: the famous.. the Infamous Clint Clifton: Infamous Johnny Hunt. Yeah. He's a. Man, alive wire just you know, very rarely did I get to rub shoulders with somebody who has been in Ministry so long and had such a consistent impact over the years and Johnny's impact is in large part what he's done to develop pastoral leadersMenu system amazing. He's got in everywhere. You see him. He's rolling deep. He's got guys with him and he's had a long Ministry of mentoring young men and know where do I go around the country that I don't meet people that were his interns or that worked with him and they're doing incredible things in Ministry today, so, He's not just a ferocious evangelist and a great apologist and a good spokesman for the kingdomHe is he's a mentor to a lot of guys and that that says a lot to me. Josh Turansky: He is a yeah this interview that I had the conversation with him and you'll hear that in a second but he's very patient because he had a hard time finding where we were going to meet. Yeah, and I really appreciate his tenacity and chasing us down and Clint Clifton: he didn't have a hard time finding it as much as we kept changing itJosh Turansky: Oh, that's right. Clint Clifton: That's right. It wasn't that wasn't his fault. Let's make him make that clear was our fault. Yeah. Josh Turansky: Yeah and his he's got a great assistant that helped him find a way so. This is going to be this is this is a great topic where we touch a little bit on evangelism. We talked about the fact that he's got people that are following him around and being trained by himClint Clifton: Yeah Josh Turansky: uhmmm.. great. Great material anything else you want to highlight with Clint Clifton: I would just say some of the listeners some of the podcasts guests that we have here are not on the podcast because they have planted a great church themselves or anything like that, but they're on the podcast because they're a champion for the church at large and theyAre a fan and a champion of church planting and that's Johnny for sure. I mean his story is he pastored really large church for a really long time and led them to great ministry. He led that church to plant many churches. He's been, you know, not to real category. I mean the Pastor that.. Passion to me for church planting is never planted a church himself and I think that if you're a pastor and you're listening to this and you hear all the talk about church planting are just like that's not me, man.God may use you in a way to mobilize people and plant churches. That's far beyond what you could accomplish as a church planter yourself. So that's a real category one. You should embrace and that's Johnny's contribution to the church planting World Josh Turansky: Strong point. Excellent. Okay, let's jump right into the episode with Johnny Hunt.Johnny Hunt:So you want to lead your church to multiply, but in order to do that, you have to raise up new potential leaders from inside your congregation. But how in the world are you supposed to do that with all the other plate you have spinning? Well, the North American Mission board is created a tool to help you equip the Saints for the work of the ministryIt's called the multiplication Pipeline and it helps you identify and train missional leaders, potential church planters and potential church planting team members from right there inside your own congregation the pipeline starts with a simple assessment tool and a three-year online training system follows to equip missional leadersLearn more about the multiplication pipeline by visiting their website: namb.net/pipelineJosh Turansky: Alright! Here we are. At the SBC convention with Pastor Johnny Hunt you have been a pastor for years and you've got the best smile in the SBC convention. Johnny Hunt: They can't see it.Josh Turansky: and recently you made a transition of leading your church to in this leadership role with NAMB overseeing evangelism. You have this incredible history of raising up leaders, helping guys plant churchesSo let's let's talk a little bit about this recent transition help help people understand. What is your new role? And what what compelled you to take on this role? Johnny Hunt: Thanks Josh. At Woodstock until the end of the year. So I'm helping transition a new Young Pastor Jeremy Morton and it's going fabulousWe're seven or eight months in and I will leave their Lord willing to end of December. And so I've dreamed of year for years of what I'd like to do in the last quarter of my life and two major areas is pastoral leadership, which I've done through Timothy Barnabas for 25 years. I've also mentored two pastors a year at my office for the last 25 years. So that's been a given in my life. And then evangelism, our church is always in every church I've served in 43 years have been leaders in evangelism. So I would like to challenge Southern Baptists to once again put evangelism on the front burner. And so I'm doing dual roles because I'm trying to do less at Woodstock and then I'm doing more with NAMB, but then come January 1 it will be 1 job. Josh Turansky: Wow. Okay, so you were talking a little bit about your involvement interaction with church planting in LA some specific observations that you may tell us a little bit about that story Johnny Hunt: NAMB asked me a few years ago, if I would become lead Pastor for LA Initiative and Woodstock would become lead church so I did, so I began to work with some of our NAMB employees out there. And so what they would like me to do is to go out and bring about eight of the pastor's in close to us and I would take I took over 200 passengers out there to see the work asking to be involved. So we would have like Banquets Town meetings for lunches and we would or even go to the campuses and say to the young Church Planters,Tell us what God's doing how long you been here who you're trying to reach tell us about your ministry. Tell us about your needs because these guys were joining with them and I regret to say this but many of them had been there two and a half years. They went to you meet. We don't know. Sometimes we meet once a month sometimes as every other monthWe're not meeting regular right now and try to get together with the guys. And so so what is your core group like it, you know right now as far as what we can depend on we've got seven I'm thinking, you know, there's 19 million people out here 19 million second largest city next to New York proper and I'm thinking wow and you know, You there's a way to say itSomeone says you can't see the forest for the trees do a reverse play. You can't see a tree for the forest. Sometimes such a mass - that you don't see anybody and so God help me today to see what you see feel what you feel love who you love so I would see that but then when I meet when I say we tell me about you know, what you're doingI mean. Who are you witnessing to? Who is it your real passion about and it seemed like it turn more to demographics distances the people that live in that building, but it was it was all shaped in such a way that it was it was not personal and then on the other hand we would talk to those that were really on the move and it was, Hey pray!Well, we've got these three families in our neighborhood that we're after we've invited him into our home. We're praying. We're carrying through prayer. I shared the gospel of first time with this one, but they had names they were after people we're in the people business and like saying relationship, so, take Matt Lawson at our church there in BurbankI was just with him a few weeks ago. He had neighbors but he would be out in his yard and he would think Boyd a moment make it look I'm speaking and they just walked right by winning look, but then he began to think everyone's walking their dogs. So he took his children out in the yard and he put bowls of water and even some like dog biscuitsI thought it was so cool and in all the dogs would have go to and say, ‘Hey come and join”. I mean everybody around here's got a pet and while they were sitting and drinking the water and all then he would engage them or hey cute sun bear and they begin we've got a little boy and been engaging and they were always thinking of events they could do but to engage people to build relationship because I sent him out thereHe had only spent a half a day in LA in his life. So this is not like I've lived out there that visited their lot gots capture my heart. He Supernatural is called, you know plant Advanced Pittman in Las Vegas 17 years ago 18 now, but Vance was an associate pastor had left a pastoring and I was preaching but I had got it laid Las Vegas on my heart and it was the fastest growing city in America 18 years ago, and I thought we don't have a significant Southern Baptist work out thereOr not enough. Thanks some I shouldn't put it that way. They were some significant changes, but Ian we planted him with three families? That was it has three families from Alabama For Heaven's Sake move into to the. And now, they enjoyed over 3,000 on the weekend of started over 40 churches from that oneSo we have planted over a hundred church at Woodstock and we're not counting like he has to like say if we could there are grandbabies, but if we included those are Church plants probably pushing 300 well in others that we don't planted Paul godhardt out there. I mentored him for a year. So it's been encouraging but we've got to be in the people businessThere's an old song that says God love people more than anything. That's the truth. Josh Turansky: Wow. So just we're just having the numbers come out for the Southern Baptist in regards to baptisms confessions of faith, and the numbers are down and that's a trend that's been going on for almost a decade and you're stepping into this new role emphasizing evangelism and so tell me the story about the origins of this new role. Johnny Hunt: Basically, that is a problem last year to Southern Baptist convention. They were lots and way of resolutions on the floor about hey, let's hold them accountable. They ought to be leading out and evangelism and sometimes gotten a mixed signal owners life way lead this or this NAMB, but the bottom line is the pastor is going to have to lead it. But someone does need to be out beating the drum keeping it in front of us is. We do with I am be or any other Ministry before us so in that context JD Greer begin to talk about who's your one and I had written material back in like 2007 just entitled one and so it resonated in my heart the biblical text and all and I thought this will work and we really we really have itI shared it with 280 leaders yesterday, which was encouraging I was with our. Associational missionary strategist formerly the OMS and basically is the largest gathering they've ever had in the history of their movement. And so it really encouraged me hopefulness, but their boots on the ground across the convention and we've got a major major strategy, but here's what's going to have to happenWe got to stop the bleeding. We are bleeding. We're at a 1940 love. Oh in baptisms, so in continuing to get worse each year. The grace of God will stop the bleeding and then I really do believe we can turn it around and someone might say, well you really believe you can turn around. Oh, no, we can turn it aroundIt's going to be the pastor's of the Southern Baptist convention. So bottom line is I believe it all my heart they'll buy in and if they don't buy in we won't move the needle a moment, but if they do, I think we could see significant change just as we've seen significant change in the wrong directionJosh Turansky: Well, so you have this background of working with one-on-one with developing leaders, which I want to talk with you about in a second. But as you come into this role of leading this Initiative for evangelism, it seems like a very high-level role. But the example of your ministry is very is mentoring one-to-one. So how do you affect change from such a high level into across 4747 thousand churches?Johnny Hunt: Yeah. Yeah. That's a great question. So just like yesterday and really I thought about my message for a year to be with those guys yesterday and it's significant to be in that room because I got a text message last Sunday morning at like 5 o'clock in the morning said, pray for this pastor his mother just died and pray for this pastors follow just at who else knows that state execs can't know it national level can't know it sometimes pastors don't even know it but DOMs know what churches are open what churches are growing. I mean, they really are the boots on ground.They're the ones that are messaging thee local church. They're the ones that can pick up the phone, go worship with them, visit them. So we want to keep it personal so it's really bottom-up still. So if I get with them and convince them of something that's reality. Number one, I love you, I'm for you, You are importantI mean, I don't know that I've heard a lot of people trumping lately that Association missionary strategies were the DOMs are really important. But I believe they can be important to our movement then. Secondly, I've made it a Ministry of training pastors a platform where a lot of pastors come to my Timothy Barnabas schoolsSo I engage with them we say we don't have a green room. I'm always with them. So I'm messaging them, but I'm also there. You know, giving them details of how they can be involved. Then you certainly tomorrow on our platform will give more of a national challenge. But when we go to a city for instance in our Hoosier want or have great music the churches we go to really really are already on the move but want to go to a new level and then we will really message not just for that state but within a hundred-mile radius.My team at the name is going to really I mean just we're going to let those people know who should be in that room. And I'm of the conviction time will tell that will need our AV team to be set up for overflow and simulcast I believe everywhere we go the younger.Josh Turansky: well, can we talk about evangelism philosophicallySo there's a lot of different images that come to people's mind when they hear evangelism. You've got Crusades, you have Street evangelism. In my church. We kind of make a point of saying hey our primary means of evangelism is relational just being normal with people God's put around you. What are you emphasizing as you're talking with pastors? Obviously, one-to-one sounds highly relational.Johnny Hunt: right? Yeah. And really in a way if we're going to really change the trend it's going to be all of the above. But the truth is it is relational. For instance. When we have one of the most beautiful stories of five significant New Testament people converted and seven verses of scripture in 1st John chapter 1 verse 35 through 42, it's here that Jesus undoubtedly leads Andrew to the Lord Jesus leads Philip to the Lord, Andrews goes in his brother, we got to get back to being faithful to share the gospel with our family what we say across the country is families the hardest people in the world witness to that becomes a self-fulfilled prophecy, which they think is an excuse not to share the gospel with a family who under Heaven could love my mother, my father, my siblings more than me are so I want to I want to I want to speak into a live at needs to go back to hell where it came from.Number two, when Philip got converted he went for Nathanie,l who's Nathaniel his friend. So basically, I think it's friends, relatives, work associates, neighbors in the old days and seminary. It was the concentric circles. I'm at Starbucks regular have I ever shared a word we go on first name basis. I give them a gift at Christmas so that is it, it is a relationship, but then there's lots of people got put you in touch with I travel almost every day of my life. I'm on a plane, I'm engaged and I am engaging, sometimes I'm sleeping. But but I want to I want to be relational in our church the most effective witness and visits are somebody comes through and I say, hey stop by our connect desk.I wrote a new book believe it or not. It actually was good and I want to give you a copy of it. They go by and get its tangible expression of our love and appreciation for them, 99% of a give us all the information we want because we've engaged them there and hey first time whatever and then we take those cards and they certainly are the easiest either make an appointment with or to drop by and say hey we simply came by to say thank you for coming however, in my travels people are telling me that churches they go to and fill out cards eight out of 10 of them never follow up. So it don't matter to you have the information if you're not after it, but then we we at Woodstock still do door-to-door visitation and we but it's We Care through prayers exactly what we just did when over 10,000 homes here at crossoverSo it's both an it's Rick gauges and county seats that just had 8,000 people as crusading. 400 professions of faith in like three nights. It's not either/or. I mean we're going to focus on our local churches in different ones, but elect support all thank God for Franklin Graham Southern Baptist. Thank God for Rick. I mean Greg Laurie that we've partnered with and Southern Baptist life 3,000 professions of Faith last year in Dallas. It's a follow up. And we can pick and say 3000 who's going to follow up. I'd like to say this it is no greater burden that we call accountability follow up to 3000 and the fact that we follow it with the one that responds at our church somethingJosh Turansky: Okay. So let's. Get a little bit into the weeds just for the sake of listeners, okay? So in as I think about my congregation looking at people on Sunday, I have most of the people there have a relationship with the Lord. And they enjoy church, but my frustration is getting more people to translate their faith into the day-to-day.So we have a couple of things initiatives, but I just don't feel like I'm getting traction with my congregation. They love the Bible, they Love to Worship, but in terms of Monday morning living out their faith in an Evangelistic way on Mission just don't feel like I'm getting traction. What would what would you say if you stepped into that setting?Johnny Hunt: First of all, I commend you for sizing it up because sometimes people don't even know where their church is. And if you're going to lead them to where you feel they need to be, you need to know where they are and then secondly, the commendation is, you're not satisfied with that. I think we have fallen into lethargy in our denomination because if I were to say to a congregation. Pray about God laying a soloing heart the way we used to pray it is this Lord lay some poor soul upon my heart and love that Soul through me.So it's like Jesus when he talks about we need more workers in the Harvest. He said pray to the Lord of the Harvest that he would send more into his Harvest. Well, if I'm the one praying about Harvest, I think he's going to send me, I mean is it likes going burden somebody else if I've got the burden. Josh Turansky: Right. Yeah.Johnny Hunt: You know, so I'm going to God. If I were in your church right now, I would magnify the Hoosier one. I mean number one, you got our prayer God. Why did we do a prayer guide? Because it's not resources as much as they need a change of heart. Think about this if I stand up and just what you described and I would describe a lot of that it would stock.All right, so I know where they are and they're not really engaging if I were to say to them. I want you to pray over the next week about not just anyone but Hoosier one. Is there somebody God's laying on your heart actually burdened about not just hey, that would be neat if I could witness that person and wind them, but somebody you really burdened about is it a sibling, is it a parent, a grandparent, a cousin, is it somebody you work with, somebody go to school with? All right, so they but the fact that they have to think for week or two to even think of a critical witness to who are they by passing? Really not being ugly, but maybe we need to be jolted in the jolt needs to be you don't know your neighbors, you know, yeah, make it an effort who lives in front of you who lives on either side of you who lives on your street.Have you ever done anything? To engage the people in your street or your neighborhood. So the fact that they don't even have anyone on the radar. It just shows where we are. Josh Turansky: Yeah.Johnny Hunt: How can we turn the trend? We were not even thinking lostness and I someone's asked me to think about it and it is it's good fault in that.Are we even messaging wrong? Like hey, we got so many unreached people. Yes, they are unreached. But guess what? Jesus said they're lost. If you want to go step father. Jesus said that he that believeth not is condemned already. Not that they're going to be condemned. There are t in the state of being condemned just waiting to be cut off so that helped me with my father when I thought you know, if I don't get to Dad soon debt that's going to be condemned one day now dad already has condemned. He's in a state of of headed hell right now instead of he's going to go to hell he is going to hell. There's a difference so it really caught more. So you do the journal and then we give out the card and then we begin to really pray and you know, if they want to put with his first names you can put them on a board, have different prayer meetings where people come and then really celebrate when they come. So what if every one of your congregation was encouraged and listen to this, Josh? When I'm trying to cast this Vision, I'll talk about it tomorrow Lord, Wellington whole convention. When I try to cast this Vision we baptized west of 450,000 people this year. We average in southern Baptists Life 5 million 2000 people and some change in our morning worships average in southern Baptists lifeIf 10% of your congregation 10% of mine 10% of our denomination only 10 Baldy in the Hoosier one just just use that and say we're going after one and be able to say, hey, I'm averaging a hundred. I've got 10 of my people and they were to be successful and win one this year. Not only will be double baptisms in one year.We would baptize morning. We baptized in any given year since we were Southern Baptist convention since 1845 that is not rocket science. If only one-tenth how often do I want a cast vision and be satisfied but only 1/10, you know, hey, I would like you all to be here tonight. I'm casting Vision.How did it go? Hey 10% of them came back. You'd be you'd be home crying asking. Your family too, you know pat you on the back rub your head. Josh Turansky: Yeah. No man, that's powerful.So it sounds like you're referencing some tools and resources are those things on a website or how do people connect with this initiative.Johnny Hunt: WhosYourOne.com Only sees to tour where I'm going to go to the cities all across America over the next two to three years. Lord willing. And we'll be in major cities in a close to hopefully everybody when it's all said and done we're encouraging to come in for. First of all, I think we're not even inspired to win people to Christ. There's something to be said about inspiration but also instruction, so I'll travel would say new song Charles Billingsley or alikes. And they all saying 1520's engage everybody in the congregation and worship and then I'll bring a message of real clear biblical message about where we are. And then the next morning feed you great breakfast all name and then at about 8:30 to 12:00 that we're going to have four in different cities different people some of the best instructors they are, that are doing it that will not only give you material whether it's a Jimmy Scroggins and he says, here’s 3 circles. Or whether it's James Merritt were putting together his four questions. So we're going to give resources but we do still know this, If God does it do a work in the heart give us a passion resources is not the answer but for those who are already passionately doing what they can with what they have. We're going to give them, encouraging resource stand with them. Steve Gaines has put together a three-hour teaching session that he can teach in about an hour. Just flying through it to give you a gist because guys are thinking when I get back home like say for instance if you said you were going to do your, who's your one, we will encourage over about five weeks? Whether it be some testimonies of people that have led people to Christ, messages challenging messages of God, aligning our hearts with his, he came to seek and to save that which was lost. What is the Great Commission these statements? The gospel is good news only if it gets there in time, you know, I don't want the people in the community to not be warned.He's he killed three Ezekiel 33 all the various reasons we ought to. But the main thing is, you know, God break her heart for what breaks yours what breaks his he went every time he wept it was over Nations people. So we think that we can not only give a Clear Vision of how to get there and what we want to do but resource you to do it as well.So we feel like we've answered all the questions but there you can download the devotions free, you can download the the Who’s your one cards. Testimonies there provide videos for you to just share in your church to just really emphasize them. Like one by JD, one by me. This 45 seconds is just emphasizing just one just one and then we're already hearing the stories of a.. in three weeks, I got focused. God’s turned my heart and one one one young pastor called the other day and said alright going to give my testimony. I'm not would not baptize anybody for years. He said in the last three months we baptized. That will turn the trend because most of our churches are small the vast majority have of our church is about vocational but good leaders.Josh Turansky: Yeah,men great. Okay, so we'll link to those resources also in the show notes when this goes out. Let's let's turn to leadership development because this is another passion that you have. And you've been doing this for years. It's not just something that you're talking about from an ivory Tower, but it's something that you've practiced and modeled years and years and years.. Why is this something you care about? Johnny Hunt: Yeah, you know, basically, I am what others have invested in me. I mean when you look back over your life, you know, they say the older you get the more you reflect. The lips love to read the Psalms the Psalms are very reflective and oftentimes, it's David telling a story of his tough time but how he won the victory. I mean, they really are Psalms of ascent. I mean it's once he got out of it, but it tells what he went through so I reflect a lot and I look back on it, I think I can, I'm 23 years old. I don't even have money to go to school and raised by single mom. Dad checked out when I was seven, raised in a project, you know High School Dropout and then God saved me and here comes a guy named Alfred Joiner and I've got a question and he's got an answer. I've got a Bible but it's brand new to me. And he begins to teach me the Bible, he begins to take me out and I'm able to observe him witnessing but he did something I need to do better and he threw me in threw me and he just be out talking to some rough guy and he'd say hey, I'm glad Johnny's with me because Johnny Johnny wants to take a moment to tell you what happened to him three weeks ago.And that really is what witnesses doing is telling what happened to you how you fit into this is God's story. So I look back on that. And so three years,I went never mentioned anything about Alfred now. I hardly ever preached a sermon especially in discipleship. Don't talk about Alfred investing in me and we're still connected even though we're in different states and all and then the person God raises up to say, hey the Lord laid it on my heart to pay for your education, buy you some clothes. I mean, God's met me just like you met Elijah with bread and the water flowed in the brook and God provided for him sent Ravens to feed him with these are the Ravens of my life. They just two legged and. In skin so I mean the develop me so I look back on it and at every point somebody was there pouring into me.So I wrote a lesson out of my heart entitled, The Stewardship of Influence. So here's what I ask five questions. And fifth question is why I lead? who influenced you? when? why? how? Here’s the question? What have you done with the influence? Have I allowed that to be a deposit in me that's given this given a return and so basically I feel that I need to take what they put in me and then do the same thing for others.So my wife and I have practice helping someone to stay in seminary a college ever since we got on our feet because someone did the same thing for us. So we want to do for others what has been done for us. So we did that and then I look at that and I think most people research it shows does not have someone to believe in them.Most don't believe in themselves. If you do believe in someone they will know it and know what they know it. They'll do everything they can to make you proud of them. So I have taking young pastors. Some people always ask me, what did you Santana just teach him. No? Jesus and his discipleship, the key word is he was with them.So I just let them go with me. They got a deacons meeting with me then go to a finance committee. We got my staff meetings. My staff retreats, travel overseas with me. I do some pretty decent expenditure in library that I say you need to read these books or are there some books you want to read and I want to purchase.And then it's as they hear me in daily life. Then when we're together by herself. They begin to say Hey, you made a decision there and I just knew when they asked you to question you were going to say this, but why did you say this? You know how I make decisions? They're able to see how if I do practice Grace in dealing with some hard situations that are brought up and staff.So they learn that way. So after this meeting today, I'm entered a guy probably 10 years ago. He's now Seminary graduate been pastoring for years. So I'm in the gym this morning. Oh my God, I can't believe I ran into you. So we're going to meet after my meeting here and to again continue your mentoring so it goes on and on and on. So these guys, you know remembered her over 50 some years, I did three because I did International students just an international student just graduated from Southwestern Seminary, but when I trained him that was not on the scope, so it's helped them to believe in themselves and which most don't and they know I believe in them. And so I've kept an open line so my phone's inbox always full of emails. Answer calls or texts in from what guys say. Most people won't return your call. Most people don't answer your emails. I personally answer all of my own emails. And so that's why I can't sleep late late at night. And so but I really stayed engaged with them and I think that may be why God helps to platform.I've done so much. I've traveled so many years. I've done State evangelism, Pastors conference, convention, led to Convention, led to pass camera. I've been there but I've been there on a level of knowing them and I'll give you this piece when God began to bless me Jimmy Draper in his 80s now and he just wrote a bookI wrote the forward to it is entitled. Don't quit before you finish great great book, but basically he said to me when I was in my 30s late 30s God. Seems to really be blessing you. Would you really pray about bringing Next Generation with you? But it just kind of like, okay, what the hell does that mean.So I had to make my mind up? Today, I could be in some significant meetings, you know special meetings of the large Church round table or whatever, but I may choose to be with the guys in the two hundred churches for lunch and that type thing the younger leaders and I've done that for so many years.Well, now those young leaders are becoming the nationally known leaders. So now I can continue to network with them and maybe even influence them to be effective in the ones coming behind them. But I've watched God raise people up people can say boy that Jeff Crook is quite a leader in my heart. I can say I've been mentoring him over 20 years. Boy, look how God is using John Cross been with him for over 20 years. Wow, the Devon's done well. Spend a year with him, we continue to mentor the young man that is becoming the map and the pastor of my church. He's started following me and he was 17, 20 years ago, 10 years ago started coming almost schools. Three years ago started saying, well I meet with him like on a monthly basis or so to speak into his life.I didn't know he was going to be the one to follow me. I mean, so yeah, God was raising them up. Josh Turansky: so the push back your get you probably get is I'm a pastor. I'm so busy. How do I have time for that? Johnny Hunt: Yeah. Number one. We all have the same amount of time and it really and I write in this area in leadership is time management and a lot of people just aren't managing their time well.We really have time to do everything, we consider important. I encourage guys that if you got someone you less you always I really really want to do this, but I'm just so busy. I can't get to it. I said you're really frustrating yourself take it off the list because it's not important that you would have done it.You know, I'm date my wife every week. It's important. I'm going to have special times with my children and grandchildren. It's important. I know I need to meet my staff. I want to be very prepared when I preach so you got to do that. So I sleep. I'm not a six and a half seven our guidance all I require but I go to bed at 10:00 and I'm normally up about five so I get into the day people need to know their best time today.My best time today is in the morning. So I give my mornings to the Lord to my research. And that type thing. So this year, I'm producing three books different areas help with a lot of help with some of them, but you can do it, you know if it's a priority and you know how to work with deadlines and yet I want to learn to really practice margins.So when I leave here, got some couple speaking engagements, a week away when my wife next week, speaking engagements.Take July off. But what I do in July I think a lot of reflecting a lot of, write a lot but but only in the margins of the day, you know, I'm an early riser. My wife is a night owl. So I got me a good three or four hours and one for she gets up.So go to work and when she gets up, Hooo! Just been waiting on you.Josh Turansky: So listening to you talk about this. It sounds like you have no regrets of mentoring guys for years and it's been really rewarding. Johnny Hunt: Yeah, 90 year olds were asked recently. If you could do life over again, what would you do different and though we get the more you think about it? Wow, what would I do differently.Here's what they said. I take greater risk. I would reflect more but I would invest more in that which will outlast me. How could you possibly when you talk about your church and how you can leave them? The greatest investment you'll ever make is in them because the day will come that you have a generation your age and you will be much older.And they will continue.. able Hebrews 11:4 through his dad yet. He speaks people will still be speaking that we invested in. I love to quote my dead friends. I mean honestly like to say I want to say it Adrian Rogers said it forever and I want to say it for him now that he's with the Lord. And I quote him I do the same thing with Ron Dan with Ben Hafner, with John Phillips.You know, I heard John so many times when I'd say, I'll never forget here. John saying it hear John say it again through me, you know, so Josh Turansky: awesome. Well Pastor Johnny, thank you so much for giving us 30 minutes of your time investing in future Church Planters current Church Planters on both these things evangelism leadership development those..That's that's right where the rubber meets the road for these guys that are out there. So Johnny Hunt: The real Joy, thank you very much.Josh Turansky: Appreciate it. Narrator: I want to let you know about another incredible podcast that's hosted by today's guest Johnny Hunt. Building a culture of personal evangelism in your church begins with the leader on the evangelism podcast Pastor Johnny aims to equip pastors so that they can equip their churches to share the hope of the Gospel with the world tips and tools and encouragement of a lifetime a lifetime of personal evangelism training you can find the evangelism podcast with Johnny hunt anywhere you find podcasts Apple, Google Play, Spotify. That's evangelism with Johnny Hunt. Narrator: Thank you for listening to the church planning podcast. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review of your favorite podcast.Josh Turansky: Today’s episode of the church planting podcast is sponsored by New City Network, the Church Planting Ministry of MacLean Bible. A special thanks to today's guest Johnny Hunt and for taking the time to join us Josh Turansky produced Today Show Zuki Bastion was our Runner and her husband Nick was our editor Thanks to Hudson Sharansky and Marvin more Who provided administrative and web support and last but not least thanks to you for listening all the way through the end of the church planting podcast. Hey, if you'd like more information about the show, feel free to visit our brand new website at www.traknetpm.com cast dot-org thereYou can find all of our past episodes as well as notes and links. From today's show. Be sure to tune in next week to the podcast. We will be talking with John Mark Clifton.

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