Johnny Hunt Disinvited from Conference Because 'Not Enough Time Passed' Since Sexual Abuse Accusation

In a clear demonstration that they just don’t get it, Great Commission Weekend conference organizer Timothy Pigg announced he has disinvited disgraced pastor Johnny Hunt from being a speaker at his conference, explaining that he did not “allow enough time to pass” from the time Hunt was thrust into the forefront of public scrutiny six months ago after a Guidepost report named him at the center of a sexual abuse scandal, until now.

Of course, this makes no sense because the event occurred a decade ago. So if we’re being technical here, a decade has passed since Hunt committed sexual impropriety or sexual abuse with a family friend. Yet the issue isn’t that not enough time has passed, but instead, he did it in the first place.

Hunt looks to have been added as a speaker between November 11 and November 28. While Pigg announced that Hunt would no longer be speaking the evening of November 30, 12 hours earlier, he was reiterating that Hunt would be a speaker.

Hunt may one day be restored to ministry of some sort, but he is done being a pastor, as per the biblical qualifications of an elder. Wilson Hines says it succinctly: