Johnny Hunt Publicly Comments on Sex-Assault Scandal. Did He Fess Up?
Six months ago, First Baptist Church of Woodstock formally suspended Pastor Emeritus Johnny Hunt, 69, after being accused of sexually assaulting another pastor’s wife a decade earlier.
You can read more about the details here, but 12 years ago, while on vacation with another pastor and his wife, Hunt is accused of making inappropriate comments about her body, such as her tan lines. He then maneuvered himself into her room, where he is alleged to have pinned her to the couch, got on top of her, forcibly removed her clothes, groped her, and put his hands and mouth on her breasts and body.
She describes it as a sexual assault, and he says it was consensual. This is how he describes it:
The church was never told, and it was only revealed after a Guidepost Investigation.
Recently, his friends restored him back into ministry and he’s been making the preaching rounds since. He’s thoroughly rejected the notion that his actions have in any disqualified him from the ministry, all the while refusing to state plainly which parts were true and which parts false.
I’m trying to just not overthink this message. I’m trying not to come in prepared to say this or that. There’s parts I’ve just left to say, ‘God, wherever you lead.’ I don’t know why, but I am consumed with the thought (as) I’m laying in bed in my home here in Panama City Beach.
Some false allegations broke against me. They were some allegations that weren’t false. But the ones that were false were the damaging. The other would have been easier to survive.
I’m in bed and I‘m awakened by a cry, and my wife is weeping. And I wake up and I say, ‘Honey, I’m sorry. Are you okay?’ And she said. ‘They’ve ruined your life’. Just put a letter, they’ve ruined your life.
‘What are you trying to say?’ My soul was feigning. It was, I felt consumed. I was overwhelmed. I needed divine intervention. I found it even hard to pray.
Here’s what it means; the hour is urgent. The crisis is clear. God, don’t you see how great this is? It’s a great need. But yet- look at me, look at me- but not without hope….
h/t The Dissenter
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