Josh Hunt > Quotes

“John Chandler, who leads a Christian community in Austin, Texas, shared this: We’ve by far had the most success inviting people into our community life by inviting them to serve alongside us. As a matter of fact, that’s about the only thing that’s worked consistently as far as “official” church activities go.”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“Nothing predicts spiritual growth like individuals getting into the Word for themselves.”
― Josh Hunt, The Effective Bible Teacher

“The nation’s largest church is only nineteen years old. It was able to grow so rapidly (in part) because the pastor, Andy Stanley regularly stands before the people and says, “I am in a group that is doubling; I want you to be in a group that is doubling.” They grow by creating environments where unchurched people can kick tires in an atmosphere of grace and acceptance. They have discovered that if they will love people, people’s hearts will warm up to a message about a God who loves them. They”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“You gotta know what the Bible says before you can understand what it means.”
― Josh Hunt, The Effective Bible Teacher

“Nothing has a greater impact on spiritual growth than reflection on Scripture. If churches could do only one thing to help people at all levels of spiritual maturity grow in their relationship with Christ, their choice is clear. They would inspire, encourage, and equip their people to read the Bible—specifically, to reflect on Scripture for meaning in their lives. The numbers say most churches are missing the mark—because only one out of five congregants reflects on Scripture every day.[21] Time in the Word”
― Josh Hunt, Obedience

“The nation’s largest church is only nineteen years old. It was able to grow so rapidly (in part) because the pastor, Andy Stanley regularly stands before the people and says, “I am in a group that is doubling; I want you to be in a group that is doubling.” They grow by creating environments where unchurched people can kick tires in an atmosphere of grace and acceptance. They have discovered that if they will love people, people’s hearts will warm up to a message about a God who loves them. They have discovered that if they are gracious to people, people’s hearts warm up to a message about grace. If they will befriend people, people will warm up to a message about, “What a friend we have in Jesus.”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“People are far more open to an invitation than most of us would imagine.”
― Josh Hunt, The Effective Bible Teacher

“It seems they are more open to responding to invitations than we are to making invitations.”
― Josh Hunt, The Effective Bible Teacher

“The more I grow in Christ the less my prayers have to do with asking God and have instead to do with communing with God.”
― Josh Hunt, Obedience

“Successfully orchestrating a lot of little changes lays the foundation for big changes when they are needed.”
― Josh Hunt, Change Your Church or Die

“Effective Bible Teachers exude a familiarity with the text that can only come from living with it.”
― Josh Hunt, The Effective Bible Teacher

“Make as many small, positive changes as you can. Build up that change account. Then, if you negotiate a big change and it goes badly, you will have some resources in the change bank to draw from.”
― Josh Hunt, Change Your Church or Die

“We cannot tolerate failure in our struggle with sin chiefly because we are success-oriented, not because we know it is offensive to God. God wants us to walk in obedience—not”
― Josh Hunt, Obedience

“Groups don’t really impact a local church until they become part of a church’s culture. And that begins with senior leadership.”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“Shelby’s mantra, “Their way of doing things is better than your way of not doing things.”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“Everything changes when we love people rather than just telling them about Christ’s love.”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“The churches where I speak tend to be above-average churches. They are healthy and growing and evangelistically vibrant—most of them. Many of them are rocking along at 5% - 10% growth per year and do so year after year. I call these churches normal churches. “Normal” in the sense that they are not doing anything a lot different from the 80% that are plateaued. They are just doing things better. The preaching is a little better. That is huge. The music is a little better—and nearly always a little younger-sounding. (Here is an insight: most of the churches that are reaching young people are using the music of young people.) Often, they are in a little better location. Location matters more than we give it credit for.”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“A group of ten that doubles every eighteen months can reach a thousand people for God in ten years.”
― Josh Hunt, Doubling Groups 2.0: How Andy Stanley and a whole generation of churches are exploding with doubling groups and the power of hospitality.

“It is always a good idea to give people problems and let them come up with solutions.”
― Josh Hunt, Change Your Church or Die

“Your music is perfectly tuned to get the results you are now getting.”
― Josh Hunt, Change Your Church or Die