What you are going to see in the next few months is people in #SBC leadership that will want to pretend that Johnny Hunt’s resignation is sufficient. It is not. Through NAMB, he was given a position of power, ample opportunity, with staff that likely knew about the 2010 incident
Many of those people likely profit from @NAMB_SBC. How many have books handed out by NAMB, podcasts sponsored by NAMB, speaking engagements through NAMB, ambassador checks from NAMB, free use of houses owned by NAMB, their church planting bankrolled by NAMB?
How many have their own personal companies that have contracts with @NAMB_SBC? How many owe their current position to Hunt or NAMBs leadership? Remember Pittman’s church was primarily funded by Hunt when it was a plant.
So what needs to happen? Here is what. 1. @NAMB_SBC trustees and leadership must immediately release all current and previous employees from their NDAs and stop the widespread use of them.
2. There must be a 3rd party investigation into @NAMB_SBC and trustees and Ezell should waive their rights as the EC did. 3. The messengers should not vote for the collegiate ministry assignment to move from @Lifeway to NAMB until the previous investigation is done.
As a reminder, NAMB was denied that request last year, yet it seems NAMB went ahead and built that team under the leadership of Johnny Hunt. The assignment, if given to NAMB, would go to the team Hunt built at NAMB.
4. Lastly,@NAMB_SBC must remove all employees that knew of the 2010 incident and did not report it and they must end all of their contracts and business dealings with Hunt’s 501c3 organizations and businesses.
This includes, includes, ending the deals with Johnny Hunt Ministries, It’s a New Day Inc, 3 H Publishers, Press On Ministries, Blaze International Inc., Jubilee Conferences, 3 H Travel, and New Songs Ministry Inc.
NAMB should immediately pull staff and sponsorship from from the Favored Women Conference, WinterJam Tour, the Jubilee Confrrence, and they should immediately remove NewSong as a default band option for The Who’s Your One Tour. baptistpress.com/resource-libra…baptistpress.com/resource-libra…
The partnership and approval for all of these organizations would have been a violation of NAMBs conflict of interest policy, unless the trustees approved of the conflict of interest. NAMBs trustees should make public if, in fact, they approved all of these conflicts of interest.
Where there is abuse of power & finances, sexual abuse is usually not absent. There must be a full, 3rd party investigation of @NAMB_SBC, they must release current & past employees from NDAs, & they must cut funding to the numerous organizations tied to Hunt. #SBC22#SBCtoo
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What Hunt did according to the SATF was wicked. However some people want to say his resignation was enough. It is not. As the @SBCExecComm meets today they should encourage @namb to allow for a similar investigation (3rd party and waive rights) and any other entity needed.
In Hunt’s position at NAMB as the SVP, Hunt was over T+B and other ministries for pastors and their wives. This was a similar situation to that reported in the SATF. NAMB also hired staff from Woodstock for Hunt, of which likely at least 1 knew of the 2010 incident.
Hunt was over leading all Evangelism and leadership for NAMB. He built teams under him while he was there. Who knows what kind of culture he created or if more is or was going on? Who knows if he other NAMB trustees or leaders knew about the 2010 incident but remained silent.
Some people think that these investigations will kill the convention. They won’t. If the convention dies it will be because of us, the members. Long ago we gave into apathy and we abdicated our role of safeguarding our institutions from wickedness.
How? When you read the Business and Financial Plan you see that safeguarding the institutions is not done just by the trustees, but by us the members. That’s why it the B&FP says members are to have access to certain documents and be able to attend certain meetings.
Instead we adopted, “trust the trustees” and when entities have refused to provide certain documents or publish where they are holding their open meetings, we have let them get away with it. We have effectively abdicated our role in the convention for all but 5 min a year