Beyond Sunday: David Johnson on Faith, Leadership & Life-Changing Service
The Mike Litton Experience
Mike Litton
5.0 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 November 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
In this powerful episode of The Mike Litton Experience, Mike sits down with David Johnson—entrepreneur, author of Beyond Sunday, leadership mentor, and a man whose journey from Mississippi to business ownership and ministry is nothing short of extraordinary.
David opens up about:
Growing up in rural Mississippi and the values shaped by his father His rise through corporate America, becoming a VP of global sales Losing everything—twice—and starting over with faith as his guide Why he bought a plumbing company during the pandemic The moment that transformed his understanding of real servant leadership His mission to restore men, rebuild communities, and bring the Church back Beyond Sunday The incredible ministries he supports, including Ben Owen and the work being done to fight addiction and trafficking What Jesus washing feet truly meant—and how that message lives today through action, not words
This episode is packed with wisdom, faith, raw honesty, and unforgettable stories that will challenge how you view purpose, leadership, and what it really means to serve.
If you’re looking for inspiration, spiritual depth, and practical guidance on living with intention beyond Sunday, this conversation is for you.
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| 0:00.0 | So they had locked everything down. |
| 0:02.8 | So I said, okay. |
| 0:03.3 | So I took another job with another company, worked there for a year and got some more experience. |
| 0:06.8 | And then I started working. |
| 0:08.0 | We got recruited by Terminix, pest control. |
| 0:10.8 | And I said, a guy. |
| 0:13.2 | But I did it. |
| 0:14.3 | It was the best 12 years experience in my life. |
| 0:17.5 | Really learned a lot, to be, what not to be leadership wise, and learned that |
| 0:23.1 | there are a lot of bad leaders and there are some good leaders, but a lot of bad leaders. |
| 0:27.8 | That's not what God called us to. |
| 0:29.5 | He never said anywhere, go sit in a pew, sing three songs, take up an offering, sing another |
| 0:35.1 | song, listen to preaching, sing another song, go home. It's not what God called us to do. So he never called any of us to a pew. He called us to go. He called us to go into all the world. So to be a servant leader is to be good for people and to push them and to make them realize, you know, it's not to be, you know, you know, you don't scream, you know, abuse, you don't do all that. But it's, it's being a servant leader is to be like |
| 0:58.7 | Christ, it be like Christ, you hold people accountable. And right is right, wrong is wrong. |
| 1:02.9 | So what's the single most important thing you learned writing beyond Sunday? |
| 1:17.1 | One of the things I learned was a lot about Nehemi, |
| 1:22.2 | how he left a position of constraints to go back and rebuild the walls of Jerusalem and how they got a gun in one hand and a, you know, in a trial. |
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| 1:35.1 | We had a young man that was a guest on our podcast, the Mike Litton experience, who had a traumatic brain injury. |
| 1:41.2 | He was sleeping three hours a night. |
| 1:43.1 | He's using Newcomb now and he's |
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