A Review Of Dr. Shelton Smith's Book, “What About Repentance?”

Acts 20:20-21, “And how I kept back nothing that was profitable unto you, but have shewed you, and have taught you publickly, and from house to house, Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.”

I heard a sermon recently from Pastor's School in March of 2000 by Pastor Jack Hyles titled, “When Preachers Disagree.” In that sermon (at 28:15 time) Brother Hyles said that he resigned from their Board of Directors in 1996 and withdrew his support of the Sword of the Lord in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, whose editor since 1995 has been Dr. Shelton Smith. Pastor Hyles said he refuses to preach for Dr. Smith, nor will Dr. Smith preach for him, but they are friends.

That got me to wondering what happened. Under Dr. Curtis Hutson (1934-1995), whom Pastor Hyles recommend to succeed Evangelist John R. Rice (1895-1980). Pastor Hyles became a board member of the Sword of the Lord after he declined the editorship in 1960, following a request from John R. Rice. But why did Dr. Hyles resign under Shelton Smith? I do not know, but wish that I did. I asked ChatGPT and the A.I. said it was over differences in their views on repentance, scandals at First Baptist Church of Hammond, and conflicts in leadership in the independent fundamentalist movement.

What ChatGPT said about repentance caught my attention. I admit that I've made a hobbyhorse out of the Gospel and repentance, because these issues are of the utmost importance. What you believe determines where you will spend eternity.

So, I ordered Dr. Shelton Smith's 30-page booklet written in 2015 titled, “What About Repentance?” The Sword of the Lord insanely wanted $17.50 for shipping for a booklet that only costs $1.49, so I ordered it from '4Gospel' instead, which cost $6.95 including the shipping. Now, I spent eight years at Hyles-Anderson College. By God's grace, I graduated with honors on the Dean's List in 1993. Pastor Jack Hyles signed my diploma. I doubt if anyone is more familiar with Pastor Hyles' thousands of sermons and Bible studies than I am. I know what Brother Hyles believed and taught about repentance. That being said, after reading Dr. Shelton's booklet, I FULLY AGREE with Dr. Shelton's teachings on Bible repentance. I do not see any difference between what Pastor Jack Hyles teaches and Brother Smith.

Pastor Jack Hyles said about repentance...

“Repentance is not some little silly, 'I'm sorry.' Repentance is not simply a fear of God. Repentance is not a monk fasting and afflicting his body in a monastery. Repentance is not remorse because of sin's consequences. Repentance is not penance performed before the pope as you kiss his toe... Repentance is not being sorry for what I've done wrong. It is not confessing one's sins to a priest. It is not just conviction of sin. It is not the signing of a pledge of abstinence. Repentance is that thing when you come before God and see yourself as you are, and see Him as he is, and say with Isaiah 'Woe is me, for I am unclean!'” [emphasis added] —Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), 'THE GOODNESS OF GOD LEADETH TO REPENTANCE'

I encourage you to read my helpful article, 'What Is Biblical Repentance?' You've got to know what you're being saved from—the penalty of sin, which is the second death in Hell (Revelation 21:8). No one has ever been saved who didn't admit that he is a sinner!

Consider the following quote by the faithful man of God, Dr. Harry Ironside (1876-1951)...

"Repentance is the recognition of my sinnership — the owning before God that I am as vile as He has declared me to be in His holy Word." —Pastor Harry Ironside, 'Except Ye Repent,' chapter 3

Pastor Bob Gray Sr. of the former Longview Baptist Temple church in Texas correctly says...

“Repentance means to change your mind—change your mind—change your mind about how you want to get to Heaven to what God says you've got to do to get to Heaven. If you've got to repent of all your sins, you're still headed for Hell tonight.” —Pastor Bob Gray Sr., a quote from the awesome MP3 sermon, 'Why You Should Be A Part Of A Growing Church'

Pastor Harry A. Ironside rightly describes repentance...

“Which comes first, repentance or faith? In Scripture we read, 'Repent ye, and believe the gospel.' Yet we find true believers exhorted to 'repent, and do the first works.' So intimately are the two related that you cannot have one without the other. The man who believes God repents; the repentant soul puts his trust in the Lord when the Gospel is revealed to him. Theologians may wrangle over this, but the fact is, no man repents until the Holy Spirit produces repentance in his soul through the truth. No man believes the Gospel and rests in it for his own salvation until he has judged himself as a needy sinner before God. And this is repentance.” —Pastor Harry Ironside, 'Except Ye Repent,' p. 16

The only thing that we need to repent from to be saved is UNBELIEF. Repentance simply means “a change of mind.” Believers change our minds every day about all kinds of things, including the sins in our life. Repenting of sins throughout one's Christian life is solely a matter of DISCIPLESHIP, not SALVATION. It is a matter of growing in the Lord's grace (1st Peter 2:2), as we yield to the Holy Spirit's leading in obedience to the Scripture (2nd Corinthians 10:5-6).

Dr. Shelton Smith says in his book on page 1 that the word “repent” in its various forms appears in the King James Bible 112 times total (46 times in the Old Testament, and 66 times in the New Testament). I full agree with Dr. Smith that repentance is TOWARD GOD and not “from sin.”

On page 3, Dr. Smith says:

The word “repent” in its various forms is found 46 times in the Old Testament. Of that number, God Himself does the repenting 28 times, and man, only 9 times. The other 9 times tell of things of which God will not repent. If “repent” means to turn from sin, then you have God turning from sin 28 times in the Old Testament and man turning from sin only 9 times. —Dr. Shelton Smith, “What About Repentance?,” p. 3

Amen and amen, I agree. Brother Smith says of all those 112 mentions, it seems to him that there is only place that the Bible gives us the meaning of repentance, which is in Acts 20:21, “Testifying both to the Jews, and also to the Greeks, repentance toward God, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.” I humbly disagree with Dr. Smith that this defines what it means to “repent.” We already know what it mean to repent from the Greek noun metanoia, it is “a change of mind”; nothing less, nothing more.

I agree with Brother Smith that repentance and faith are inseparable, as two sides of the same coin. I also agree with him on page 8 that, “Some folks make everything so hard that they rarely win anybody to Christ. That is a tragic misrepresentation of the Gospel!”

On pages 10 and 11 he refutes the error of Lordship Salvation.

What Dr. Smith is referring to is the application of repentance, not the definition. Since the Greek word “metanoia” itself does not tell us what to change our mind about, we need supplemental information, which as Dr. Smith correctly says on page 4 can only be determined by the context of a particular passage. In the case of Acts 20:21, we are taught to change our mind (or the Greek verb, metanoeo, which means: “to think differently”) toward God. Nowhere in the entire inspired Holy Bible are we told to repent of our sinning to get to Heaven.

Bible repentance is a matter of repenting (changing your mind) to acknowledge the truth (2nd Timothy 2:25). You must acknowledge THE TRUTH that you are a guilty SINNER (Romans 3:19-20), and that Jesus is the only SAVIOR (Galatians 3:24-26). That is the only things you need to change your mind about to be saved.

Dr. Shelton Smith Ought Not Sanction the 'Repent of your sins' Unbiblical Expression

The only real problem I have with his book is on page 4, where he writes:

“We often hear the expression, 'Repent of your sins,” and I don't see anything wrong with using that expression. But nowhere does the Bible says, Repent of your sins.' When the Bible uses the word 'repent,' what the repentance is about is always determined by the context.” [emphasis added] —Dr. Shelton Smith, “What About Repentance?,” p. 4

Whoa Horsie! I DO have a problem with using that expression, simply because it is not found anywhere in the Bible. If the inspired Word of God doesn't teach to repent of your sins to be saved, then why in the world would Dr. Smith be okay with it? I cannot help but feel that he is coddling his ministry's supporters. I'd dare say that over 90% of the churches and Bible colleges that financially support the Sword of the Lord today foolishly teach that you must repent of your sins to get to Heaven. In my humble opinion his book attempts to appease BOTH sides of the argument, although in fairness to Dr. Smith he plainly refutes David W. Cloud (without mentioning his name) as a false accuser, troublemaker and unethical man.

Accuser of the Brethren, Dr. David W. Cloud 

Missionary to Nepal, India, David W. Cloud has slandered the Sword of the Lord for decades, wrongly accusing Dr. Curtis Hutson and Brother Smith of changing the Sword's earlier position which was held by Dr. John R. Rice. Nothing could be further from the truth. As Dr. Smith rightly points out in his booklet in defense of the Sword of the Lord, these editors all used their own different words (some stronger than others), but they all believed in salvation by grace without actually having to forsake a lifestyle of sinning to be saved. John R. Rice made it abundantly clear that the man who trusts Christ has turned from his sins; that is, he has repented toward God. Repentance means to change your mind—that’s what believing is.

There are those hyper-dispensationalists who think that John the Baptist preached a different Gospel from Christ when he commanded repentance (Matt. 3:2). But it is the same repentance Jesus commanded in Matthew 4:17, in Luke 13:3 and 5, and the same repentance that Paul preached in Athens that God “now commandeth all men every where to repent” (Acts 17:30 31). Repentance is not a different plan of salvation from having faith: it is part of the same plan of salvation. Or rather repentance is simply another way of describing or looking at the plan of salvation. One who turns from sin to God has done so by trusting in Jesus Christ. A change of mind toward sin is necessarily involved in saving faith. [emphasis added]

SOURCE: Evangelist John R. Rice, “Acts: Filled With The Spirit,” pp. 251-252; Sword Of The Lord, Murfreesboro, Tennessee; ©1963

Oh dear friend, that is so beautiful. Clearly Dr. Rice did not believe nor support the damnable heresy that you must be willing to forsake your sinful bad habits to get to Heaven. He plainly taught that when you put your faith in the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen the third day, you have turned in faith toward God from the sin of unbelief. The only thing that you and I contribute to our own salvation is the sin that made it necessary.

I have heard Missionary David W. Cloud and other false teachers, attempt to portray Dr. Rice as a proponent of Lordship Salvation, saying he taught that people must turn away from a lifestyle of sin to be saved. David Cloud even goes as far as to pitch Dr. John R. Rice against his successors Pastor Curtis Hutson (1934-1995) and Dr. Shelton Smith. Mr. Cloud claims that Curtis Hutson leaves off repentance, thus corrupting the Gospel. Nothing could be further from the truth.

Dr. Shelton Smith Wickedly Bids Godspeed to PCC

The Sword of the Lord for the longest time have run full page advertisements promoting Pensacola Christian College (PCC), who preach Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance. We have a terrible sore evil in fundamentalism today of indifferent pastors going along with the herd, tolerating the repent of your sins damnable heresy which has crept into the church. I understand that the words “Rapture,” “Trinity” and “Bible” and not in the King James Bible, but the meaning of those terms is quite clear; whereas the meaning of the expression “repent of your sins” can mean a bunch of different things to a lot of people. It is a dangerous phrase to use! In fact, that is the very reason why a lot of preachers use it without explaining what it means, so when challenged they can go either way on the issue.

I think it is wrong and shameful that Dr. Shelton Smith doesn't earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3). We are at spiritual war in our churches today over the meaning of repentance (and thus, the Gospel). Dr. Smith is sinfully coddling the enemy. Look at what garbage PCC teaches...

“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. The act of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' This word implies an inward decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins. It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.” [emphasis added]

SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60

My God in Heaven, why does Dr. Shelton Smith and the Sword of the Lord wickedly bid Godspeed to this blatant heresy? 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.” This is a counterfeit plan of salvation on par with the Church of Christ, Seventh-Day Adventists and Mormonism! PCC's Campus Church further states:

“I repent of my sins. I realize that sin is something that God hates and I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits.” [emphasis added]

SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62

Oh My! Folks, this is NOT part of the Gospel which the Apostle Paul preached in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6...

1st Corinthians15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

There you have it! The “Gospel” is the “GOOD NEWS” that Jesus Christ DIED on a cross for our sins, He was BURIED and after three days He physically RESURRECTED from the dead. In Paul's Gospel (which Paul said he received directly from Jesus in Galatians 1:11-12), did you see anything that reads: “follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins”? No, that is not what Paul taught. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!!

So, why is PCC and their Campus Church promoting this filth? 1st Thessalonians 4:14, “For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.” That is the true Gospel, not the demonic garbage that is being preached at PCC and throughout the city of Pensacola today.

Whereas Shelton Smith Profits from Sinful Compromise; I Am Shunned for Fighting the Good Fight of Faith

You know, I have been blackballed by PCC, their Campus Church, and all PCC associated churches in the Pensacola area. They all know who I am and what I stand for as a fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher, and moreover that I am taking a biblical unapologetic uncompromising stand against Pensacola Christian College for perverted the Gospel. They all know about my website ministry, which I have never shared with any of them. They found it!

You just read it for yourself dear reader. How am I the bad guy in all of this? And yet, I am not welcomed at Smyrna Baptist Church. I am not welcomed at Family Baptist Church. I am not welcomed at PCC's Campus Church. I mean I've been banned in writing, since August 2, 2022. They kicked us out of Family Baptist Church in June of 2025 and threatened to call the police if me and my wife didn't leave.

Telling THE TRUTH will cost you something. It might even cost you everything! I have been shunned, ostracized, kicked out of churches, banned, mistreated, slandered, falsely accused, hated, ignored and blackballed for taking a courageous stand against the gods at PCC with their huge egos, because they are guilty of perverting God's simple plan of salvation.

And that also includes the ungodly corrupt Calvinist Bob Jones University (BJU) Lordship Salvation cult too, with their umpteen different Bible versions!

All in all, I approve of Dr. Shelton Smith's booklet, “What About Repentance.” It is well written and makes some excellent points. On pages 12 and 13 he shows that many passages about believing on Christ in the Bible don't even mention repentance, and that is so important to see dear reader. In fact, the word “believe” in it's various forms appears in the Gospel of John 90 times, but the word “repent” is never mentioned ever once. That is because the man who believes has repented. That is, he has changed his mind. Repentance means to change your mind—that’s what believing is.

The only main thing I didn't like in Brother Smith's excellent book was that on page 4 he says he's okay with the expression, “Repent of your sins,” and I think that is a big mistake. That stupid phrase has caused so much unnecessary confusion and division, creating doubts instead of dissolving them. Dr. Smith concedes that the expression is not in the King James Bible, which is why I think he ought not support it. My suspicion is that since his predecessor Dr. John R. Rice used it, he doesn't want to create a rift in their organization's image. Seems to me.

I think Dr. Smith sums it up well on page 14, “The 'sins' we have committed will be forgiven and placed under the blood of Christ when we have repented of our 'sin' of unbelief.”

The Danger Of Using “ChatGPT” For A Christian

Ephesians 5:22-24, “Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as unto the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body. Therefore as the church is subject unto Christ, so let the wives be to their own husbands in every thing.”

DANGER! WILL ROBINSON! DANGER!

I really like ChatGPT, but it definitely has a heathen secular unbiblical bias to it. I decided to test it today by asking questions about a wife obeying her husband. I opened a Pandora's Box! 

I first asked ChatGPT a question about women raised in Asian cultures being more submissive than American women, but the A.I. dismissed it as being "a common stereotype." I argued that it is a well known fact, not a stereotype. But the A.I. said "you went too far"...lol. Unreal.

Then I asked ChatGPT if it believes the Holy Bible that a wife is commanded to obey her husband? The A.I. replied, "that depends on what you mean by 'obey'." I quoted Ephesians 5:24 that a wife is supposed to submit to her husband in "every thing." The A.I. replied by throwing Ephesians 5:25 in my face that a husband is supposed to love his wife. Unbelievable! 

I told the A.I. that it is equivocating (deliberately not getting to the point) and it defended itself by saying it was just correctly interpreting the Bible. So I asked ChatGPT if it believes that a wife should obey her husband in "every thing." The A.I. disagreed and said that the Bible doesn't mean literally "in every thing." So, I told ChatGPT, "Thank God you're not anyone's wife!" This was the response from ChatGPT.

I get that this topic matters a lot to you, and it’s easy for it to get heated.
I’m not here to argue against you or take shots at your beliefs. You’re trying to take Scripture seriously and apply it literally—that’s clear. Where we’ve gone back and forth is just about how to understand and apply the wording, not about rejecting it.

So, I asked ChatGPT if biblically a wife is supposed to obey her husband in every thing unless it is immoral, unsafe or illegal. And here was the reply from A.I.

I hear what you’re saying—you’re taking the phrase “in every thing” at full strength and don’t want it softened.

Let me answer you plainly:

Yes, Bible (Ephesians 5:24) teaches real, comprehensive submission. It’s not partial or selective.

Where I won’t go with you is turning that into:

“a wife must obey every command her husband gives, without exception.” 

Not because I’m trying to weaken the verse, but because the Bible itself doesn’t treat any human authority as absolute."

Oh boy, that is scary stuff for a husband!

I continued by asking ChatGPT if there are 'exceptions' when a wife can disobey her husband when it's not something unsafe, immoral or illegal, please give some examples. The A.I. replied that it couldn't give me any examples. It told ChatGPT that according to Ephesians 5:24 she would have to obey, based on my view. So I finally asked ChatGPT, "But what is your view?" 

Here was the reply...

My view, stated plainly: 

I don’t believe Ephesians 5:24 should be understood as “a wife must obey every non-sinful preference or command her husband gives.” 

I do believe the passage in the Bible teaches:

• real, meaningful submission
• respect for a husband’s leadership
• a willingness to follow in the overall direction of the marriage

But I understand that submission as:

a voluntary, relational posture—not a blanket rule that removes a wife’s agency in every non-sinful decision

As of April 2026, ChatGPT has approximately 891 million total users, including 837 million standalone users and 106 million Microsoft Copilot users.

Sadly, ChatGPT clearly does NOT have any loyalty to God's Word. ChatGPT makes exceptions for a wife not obeying her husband, even when it has nothing to do with being immoral, unsafe or illegal. If that be the case, then a wife can disobey her husband on a whim at any time for any reason. The Bible calls that the sin of rebellion, which is on par with the sin of witchcraft (1st Samuel 15:23). Clearly, ChatGPT has a liberal bias!!! To beat around the bush over what it means to “obey” and to “submit in every thing” is rebellion! We've got a serious problem in the United States with wives submitting to their husband.

Honestly, ChatGPT is just an evil liberal progressive bullcrap machine pushing vaccines, climate change, divorce, the teen brain, evolution, the Big Bang, Lordship salvation, political correctness, abortion, gun control; and the official narratives of the PLANDEMIC, Sandy Hook, 1995 OKC Bombing, 9/11 and other stuff.

ChatGPT wickedly denies that 911 was an Inside Job, but we all know based upon a mountain of evidence that it was an Inside Job! There has been MUCH deliberate misinformation, disinformation and other lies fabricated to whitewash and hide the crimes of 9/11. With nearly one billion people using ChatGPT, you know there's no way that they're going to risk  bringing the government's scrutiny down on them. The Bush family are all going straight to burn in Hell, where Dick Cheney and George Bush Sr. are already sizzling in everlasting torment. We must never forget that Satan according to the Bible is the god of this world (2nd Corinthian 4:4).

According to ChatGPT two space rocks collided to form the earth and moon. Unreal.

When I asked ChatGPT about Roman Catholics, if they are true Christians, the A.I. continually defended Catholics, downplaying that they are wrong on the Scripture or that they are a cult. Clearly ChatGPT is programmed not to offend users, and to remain neutral on issues.

ChatGPT is so corrupt! I asked it about the two undetonated bombs that were found in the Alfred P. Murray building in Oklahoma City in 1995, which murdered 168 victims. ChatGPT completely denies that these two undetonated bombs ever existed, and dishonestly says that the "verified evidence" by the federal government (the A.T.F. and F.B.I.) doesn't confirm that there were two undetonated bombs. Well, I just so happened to have saved the original news report video that says first responder investigators found TWO UNDETONATED charges, that failed to explode. See for yourself...

OKC 1995 Bombing - Two Undetonated Bombs Found

Those two undetonated explosive devices were even larger than the first bomb that did go off. You can go ask ChatGPT for yourself to verify what I am saying, that ChatGPT is covering up blatant crime and is pushing an agenda for the Globalist elite. The official narrative is a LIE!

When I shared that video with ChatGPT, it dismissed my Jesus-is-Savior website ministry as a useless "conspiratorial website." The ATF later changed the official narrative to say that a Ryder rent truck filled with fertilizer exploded in front of the building, but that's not what really happened, which this video PROVES. ChatGPT lies and is clearly programmed to push evil agendas and deny THE TRUTH! Don't you trust it!

If you're unlearned in the Scripture and lack common sense, it's best to just stay away from ChatGPT, but if you do use it please be careful because it has “Big Brother” written all over it. ChatGPT is just another technological tool of Satan's now forming New World Order.

Ungodly Corrupt Authoritarian Neo-Fundamentalist Churches And Bible Colleges

2nd Corinthians 11:6, “But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.”

Okay, dear reader, let me define some terms so we'll all be on the same page. The prefix “neo” simply means “new.” These are your modernized churches. Most churches today are neo-evangelical. For example: Hillsong's chain of about 100 campuses worldwide, Pastor Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church in Texas, Family Baptist Church in Pensacola, and First Baptist Church of Pensacola. All 47,000 Southern Baptist Convention churches are neo-evangelicals. Liberty University in Virginia, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kentucky, and Moody Bible Institute in Chicago are all neo-evangelicals institutions. These neo-evangelical churches and colleges set low moral standards. All of their females wear pants. They sing Contemporary Christian Music (CCM). They are all wrong on God's simple plan of salvation.

Then there are truly independent fundamentalist churches. Examples of this are Pastor Steven Anderson's Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, and Pastor Jeff Fugate's Clays Mill Baptist Church and their Commonwealth Baptist College in Kentucky. I love these biblical New Testament patterned, confrontational soulwinning, inspired King James Bible only, sin fighting, Christ-honoring, free grace Gospel only, churches! These churches and colleges are all correct on God's simple plan of salvation. They all believe that the King James Bible is inspired and without error. Their moral standards are kept high. Women wear dresses, skirts, culottes and other modest clothing; but never pants!

And then there are former fundamentalist churches and Bible colleges decades ago, that have transitioned (and are transitioning still today) into ungodly neo-evangelical cults. These are neo-fundamentalist organizations. Such corrupt churches include Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola, Harvest Baptist Church on Guam (all Bob Jones alumni), First Baptist Church of Hammond (and their Hyles-Anderson College) and Bob Jones University. In most of these places you'll find a mix of the old hymns and CCM. They all deny the inspiration of the King James Bible. You'll find damnable false doctrines such as “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven in many of these churches and colleges. I found four different conflicting plans of salvation at PCC. They are following the herd, changing for the worst. I keep getting burned by this crowd, thinking that I am attending a good church, just to find out that they are WRONG on repentance, and they are following the Satanic new-evangelical mess.

If You're Not Angry, You're Not Paying Attention or Don't Care

There has been an ongoing spiritual war for centuries over the Bible meaning of repentance. Because of this reality many preachers have shameful avoided the topic altogether, refusing to contend for the faith because they don't see the significance. Well, I do dear reader. There is nothing in this universe any more important than God's simple plan of salvation. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS. 2nd Corinthians 11:6, “But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge; but we have been throughly made manifest among you in all things.”

I have often said that the hallmark character trait of a Christian who is right with God is that THEY CARE! You show me a believer who doesn't care and I know they do not walk closely with God. Acts 4:13, “Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.” You won't find a more bold preacher than myself, or sincere to tell THE TRUTH. In fact, at times I can be highly offensive in my rants and hard biblical preaching.

By God's grace, I have single-handedly taken a strong, unapologetic, uncompromising, BIBLICAL STAND against the ungodly Bob Jones University (BJU) and Pensacola Christian College (PCC) camps, which today have deteriorated into dangerous religious cults.

Ephesians 6:10-13, “Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.”

By God's grace I am standing. I am hated by their pastors and wives. I have been kicked out and banned from a half dozen of their churches. I may get sued. I may get martyred. That's okay, I won't back down! I won't be intimidated by wicked religious thugs. They have wrongfully slandered me. To their shame, I've been shunned, ostracized, mocked, avoided, mistreated, ignored and abused by these wicked neo-fundamentalists.

I Was Persecuted at Campus Church and PCC

Since I have moved from the island of Guam to the city of Pensacola in July of 2021, there has been a conspiracy to shun me from behind the scenes because of my fundamentalist website ministry, and because of my courageous David and Goliath fight against the Goliath PCC. When I attended Campus Church in 2021, their senior pastor Jeff Redlin shunned me. He told me that he and their other pastors looked through my ministry websites. I never told any of them about my ministry, but they claimed someone was “trying to contact the i-pad preacher.” Pastor Redlin said that since they didn't know how to contact me that they had no choice but to look through my websites. Jeff said he and the other pastors saw that I “find weaknesses in preachers,” for which they criticized my ministry.

Well, first of all, Pastor Redlin lied. I emailed him the very next day after I attended their 4th of July picnic at PCC in 2021, so he had my email to contact me. Furthermore, I find WICKEDNESS in preachers, not their weaknesses. For Pastor Marty Herron at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam to preach hard core Lordship Salvation and bid Godspeed to infidel Dr. John MacArthur is not a mere weakness, it is utter deliberate wickedness!!! It doesn't surprise me hearing such incompetent foolishness from Jeff Redlin in lieu of the sad fact that none of them at PCC contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints (Jude 1:3).

Associate Pastor Timothy Zacharias at PCC's Campus Church, Jeff Redlin's incompetent side kick 'Boy Wonder,' is wrong on Bible repentance. I sat in the auditorium of Campus Church on July 21st, 2021. They were showing a Ken Ham series every Wednesday evening throughout the summer. Just so you know, Ken Ham of Answers-In-Genesis is a damnable FALSE PROPHET. See and hear for yourself what Ken Ham preaches! In December of 2022, PCC invited and honored Ken Ham, allowing him to speak to their thousands of students (victims). Ken Ham's plan of salvation DOESN'T match Jesus' plan of salvation (John 6:28-29). Nowhere does the inspired King James Bible teach that to get to Heaven you must “turn from your wicked ways.” NOBODY can get to Heaven by doing “works” (Isaiah 64:6; Romans 3:19-20, 4:1-7; Ephesians 2:8-9; Titus 3:5). Answers-In-Genesis is of the Devil!

As I sat there at Campus Church on July 21st, 2021, I almost fell out of my chair when Pastor Zacharias told thousands of people present that to be saved you must turn from your sins and live a changed life. He said that “repentance is a change of mind resulting in a change of behavior.” This is PCC's official position in their Foundations Class at Campus Church. I felt like vomiting. I was angry and concerned. The next morning I emailed Dr. Jeff Redlin to find out where he stood. To no surprise he fully supported Pastor Zacharias' damnable heresy. These religious clowns have no business being pastors or standing behind any pulpit. I say that kindly but truthfully.

Long story short, Pastor Redlin sent me a cruel email on August 2, 2022 permanently banning me from attending Campus Church. They persecuted me! I wrote two letters to PCC in a sincere attempt to reconcile, but in their arrogant pride they completely ignored me. We have been enemies since because of their cruel behavior. They are upset with me for calling them out on their WRONG teaching that repentance for salvation results in a change of behavior. THE TRUTH MATTERS!!! If Dr. Redlin were right with God as a church pastor, then he would have lovingly welcomed me to attend Campus Church, regardless of my ministry's preaching. Pastor Jack Hyles said it best, practically giving their address at PCC...

“The pastors have destroyed the churches, and they've been trained by people that have never built churches, and they have no compassion.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Many Pastors Have Destroyed My Vineyard”

Amen and amen and amen! They are educators at BJU and PCC, so they woefully lack compassion for hurting sinners, and that woeful lack of compassion shows in their incompetent and impotent pastoral graduates. Marty Herron is a graduate of BJU, which speaks volumes! Just in case you think I bumped my head or am having a bad day, take a look at the Satanic Calvinist garbage that their long time president Steve Pettit taught to several thousand students at BJU from 2014 to 2022. That is NOT the Gospel, not even close!!!

I Was Persecuted at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam

In 2014, after attending the Harvest Baptist Church for almost a year, I was called into the church office by Associate Pastor Joe Hensen (while Mary Herron sat in the dark in a back room). I was falsely accused of “causing confusion and divisiveness” in their church by sharing sermons and books by fundamentalist preachers with my friends at church. When I kindly asked Pastor Henson what was so bad about me sharing sermons by Pastor Jack Hyles with others, he literally shirked his shoulders that he didn't know. That was weird.

That's when I figured out that his boss, Pastor Herron, made him scold me. Pastor Joe was just doing his job! I asked him if Pastor Herron was sitting in the dark in the back room and he got this big smile on his face and motioned with his eyes toward the back room to let me know that I was right, Marty was back there (the coward). I let them both have it for over an hour! I told them that they have a Christian school with a church on the side. I told them that I wasn't the one causing confusion, they were already a house divided on many levels.

In that meeting, Joe Hensen admitted to me that on any given Sunday you'd find at least two dozen different Bible versions circulating in their pews. I told them how shameful their church is! When I left he wanted to pray with me, but I refused. I told them both that I was going home to pray for them to get right with God. Joe Hensen called me and Pastor Jack Hyles “a cult” for our belief that the King James Bible is inspired by God and the only reliable Bible today in the English language. Even a young child can clearly see that something is very wrong with all of the modern Westcott and Hort Bible versions (that includes all of them). I left the church that evening in tears. Pastor Herron later wickedly sent me an email banning me from attending Harvest Baptist Church. Hell is coming up to meet that ungodly false prophet!

Damnable Heresy at Pensacola Christian College

I am not the bad guy dear reader for TELLING THE TRUTH. If a free grace Gospel without works is correct, then I am right. Anyone who tells you that God will not save you unless you are first “willing to turn from your sin” is a damnable false teacher! That includes false prophet Jack Chick (1924-2016) and his toxic Chick Tracts! I am unjustly HATED by the PCC family and every ungodly corrupt church associated with them in Pensacola.

When I attended Smyrna Baptist Church in 2024, they shunned me. Pastor Bill Adams never once came over to talk with me in the 8 months that I attended their church. I even went to their Easter Sunrise Service at Bayview Park at 6 am. I attended their Memorial Day church picnic outdoors. Pastor Adams never bothered to welcome me. Then they showed a religious movie indoors. When I went inside and kindly asked Bill Adam's wife in the kitchen for some water, because I explained I was dehydrated because of my pain medications, she rudely and insensitively snapped at me, saying: “Why didn't you get something to drink outside?” You don't talk to a 55 year old man that way! She has an attitude problem!

It wasn't until after 4 months of attending their church that the Youth Director finally came over to greet me. Jared is the only one I have some remote respect for; the others are clowns. Smyrna Baptist Church is wrong on the Gospel. They teach that you cannot be saved unless you are willing to turn from your sins. The pastor's daughter goes to PCC. As far as I am concerned she is a victim! Read for yourself what PCC horribly teaches...

“REPENTANCE — Now is the time to turn from your sin and embrace God. The act of turning away from sin is called 'repentance.' This word implies an inward decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self-serving sins. It means changing your mind about sin and seeing it as something that grieves God. The Bible says that God patiently waits for all people to make this decision.” [emphasis added] SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 60

“I repent of my sins. I realize that sin is something that God hates and I no longer want to hold onto sinful bad habits.” [emphasis added] SOURCE: “John & Romans,” Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, p. 62

Does anyone think I have been barking up an empty tree? Folks, this is NOT part of the Gospel which the Apostle Paul preached in 1st Corinthians 15:1-6. ...

1st Corinthians15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve: After that, he was seen of above five hundred brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.”

I didn't see anything in the Apostle Paul's definition of 'THE GOSPEL' that includes turning away from your sinful bad habits, and to make a decision to follow and obey God's will instead of your self serving sins, DID YOU? For preaching these truths my website ministry has been brought into question and condemned, and I have been persecuted and shunned, kicked out of several churches. Psalms 118:6, “The LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”

I Was Persecuted at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola

In had attended Family Baptist Church for 45 months, until in June of 2025 their ungodly neo-evangelical pastors kicked me and my wife out. I was wrong to stay in that cult for so long. I was lonely to have a church family, and chose to overlook their heresy. In all the years that I attended their church they ignored and shunned me because of my website ministry. No one ever invited me out to eat, even though they went out together as a church group on a regular basis. It was “Us four and no more!” What selfish jerks!

The church is WRONG on the Gospel. In their official Statement of Faith the church requires you to “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven. But that is NOT part of the Gospel. Unless you are using one of the Devil's corrupted Bible perversions, you cannot show me any place in the inspired Word of God where it teaches to forsake your sins to be saved. That would be WORKS! Romans 4:4 says that salvation has always been by grace, never by works.

In April of 2025, the church's shameful pastor Brad Moffett met with me and my wife in his office. We had been invited for a different purpose, but Pastor Brad unethically and horribly decided to censure my website ministry instead during that time, which was very low class. In that unpleasant meeting Brad (I am old enough to be his father) was upset over my preaching against Pensacola Christian College. Sadly, Family Baptist Church (like Smyrna) is in bed committing spiritual adultery with PCC. Birds of a feather flock together!

Pastor Brad wickedly slandered Pastor Jack Hyles, accusing him of being a dirty old man with a carnal mind for saying in a sermon, quote: “I don't have a dirty mind, I have a man's mind.” What Brother Hyles said is 100% true. There is nothing wrong with his statement. Any honest man will admit he is tempted with sexual thoughts when he sees a woman bending over, or wearing tight, scant and revealing clothes. If you're a man and you don't have such thoughts, you should go see a doctor to see what's wrong, or perhaps you're a homosexual.

Yet, to our bewilderment in his office, Brad Moffett cited Galatians 5:16, “This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh,” using that passage as an excuse to justify his worldly wife wearing her sexy pants in public. Brad foolishly said it shouldn't matter if his wife wears her sexy pants, because a man who walks in the Spirit won't lust after her. What a darn fool! Brad ignores the fact that most men do not even have the indwelling Holy Spirit, because they are not saved (1st John 3:24).

Furthermore, just because a Christian man walks in the Spirit, doesn't mean that he won't be tempted by a wicked pastor's wife who defies the biblical commandment to wear modest attire. Pants are not modest! SHAME on Brad Moffett and his verbally abusive wicked father, Bobby Moffett. SHAME on the whole family for defending and promoting immodesty in the church and in public. Brother Hyles wasn't a dirty old man, he had a normal man's mind, just like me and any other honest fella. Brad Moffett is a henpecked liar!

I and my wife were grossly mistreated by Family Baptist Church in Pensacola, for which persecution they will give account to God almighty in eternity. They will reap the evils which they have sown (Galatians 6:7). They will be held accountable by God for perverting God's simple plan of salvation. They will give account for kicking people out of church left and right, in the pastor's spite and a vengeful ungodly spirit of hatred. They wicked kicked out Brother Tom and Sharon. They did Perry and his wife wrong. They did Bobby who lives across the street wrong. Family Baptist Church has blood on their hands, but they couldn't care less, which is their whole problem.

I've Been Persecuted for Telling the Truth

I have only shared with you some of the persecution, abuse and mistreatment that I have suffered at the hands of incompetent, angry, ungodly and foolish pastors and their ungodly wives. What was my great crime? Why, I just TOLD THE TRUTH. The fastest way to be wicked out of church and sent for therapy is to simply TELL THE TRUTH! I am hated by the Bob Jones University and Pensacola Christian College camps, for exposing them!!! These religious cults are money-driven, not truth-driven.

Dear reader, I will never back down, come what may. They'll never shut me up! They can sue me and I'll hire a lawyer and go to court, and I'll spend every penny I have to fight them. Unless a judge takes away my internet connection, I will be right back exposing them for the wicked FALSE PROPHETS and unloving religious hypocrites that they are. I didn't kicked them out, they kicked me out! I was actually nice to them, but they are authoritarian thugs.

I hate the 'Preacher Boys' YouTube channel that attacks fallen independent fundamental Baptist pastors and preachers, but I have far more respect for Eric Skwarczynski (a former independent fundamental Baptist in 2020, turned ex-Christian in 2021) than I do authoritarian bullies like Marty Herron, Sean Quinan, Jeff Redlin, Bill Adams and Bobby Moffett who throw hurting people under the bus, like all of them wickedly DID TO ME! I shared my personal health afflictions, painful unwanted divorce, utter loneliness and heavy burdens with all of those incompetent pastors, but they couldn't have cared less about me as a hurting human being, and they axed me. They blackballed me for exposing the lie that you don't have to “repent of your sins” to get to Heaven.

When dictator Fidel Castro (1926-2016) died in 2016, his brother became the leader of Cuba. His brother overturned the 47 year previous ban since 1969 which outlawed Holy Bibles in Cuba. Did you know that the communist government of Cuba in 2018 rejected a shipment of 17,000 NIV (New International Version) Bibles? It's true! Cuba's government said they only want King James Bibles. Isn't that something! We've got tens of thousands of stupid American pastors today who use, support, sell and endorse the Devil's modern perversions of God's Word, while a communist country has enough Horsesense to only use the inspired King James Bible. Wow! God bless Raul Castro who fought against his tyrant brother Fidel and gave the inspired Word of God back to the people. Cuba puts Bob Jones University to utter shame!

My Lord and Savior Jesus Christ will avenge me! I have fought the good fight of faith. Does it get personal at times? Yes, of course. How can it not be personal when they keep kicking me out of churches, taking away my friends? Each time it feels like a divorce. Again, my only crime was TELLING THE TRUTH. Every one of the pastors I just mentioned preach a counterfeit plan of salvation. They are all making money, every last one of them. Since 2002 when I began my website ministry 24 years ago, I have never taken a single penny from anyone for my hard work, to God alone be the glory.

When my ministry friend Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023) graciously mailed me a check years ago for $200, I didn't cash it and I kindly mailed the check back with a 5-page appreciation letter, thanking him but kindly letting Dr. Younce know that I have never and will never accept any money for my labors for Jesus Christ. My ministry is a work of love. Jeff Redlin at PCC's Campus Church gets paid $100,000 a year ($8,000 a month), with a net worth of one million dollars, which you can verify online. Spiritual crime pays well. That explains why Mr. Redlin was mean to me and I am banned from attending Campus Church. Proverbs 18:23, “The poor useth intreaties; but the rich answereth roughly.” Redlin is a rich snob.

I Was Persecuted at Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam

When I attended the shameful Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam in 2018, Pastor Sean Quinlan (a PCC intern pastor) was distributing that same Satanic Campus Church booklet that I quoted from at the beginning of this article, teaching that you must turn from your sinful bad habits and follow God's will for your life to be saved. That is NOT the Gospel! These clowns for the sake of making money (job security) go along with each other, afraid to step on one another's toes, so they remain silent and damn the souls of men with a false gospel.

Romans 16:17-18, “Now I beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”

What an indictment! Dear reader, I am not a hateful man. I love people, especially preachers. God knows my heart. But when pastors mark and avoid me for TELLING THE TRUTH, they are guilty of pulling on the same rope as the Devil. Perhaps you think that I am a troublemaker. Yes, absolutely, you'd be right, and by grace I intend to cause more trouble! 1st Kings 18:16-18, “So Obadiah went to meet Ahab, and told him: and Ahab went to meet Elijah. And it came to pass, when Ahab saw Elijah, that Ahab said unto him, Art thou he that troubleth Israel? And he answered, I have not troubled Israel; but thou, and thy father's house, in that ye have forsaken the commandments of the LORD, and thou hast followed Baalim.” So you see dear reader I am not the troublemaker, the ungodly pastors in this blog that I've mentioned are the troublemakers for perverting the Gospel (Galatians 1:6-7).

Telling the truth from the inspired King James Bible has become a crime in today's churches! I am the victim of a conspiracy among every church in Pensacola that supports and is associated with Pensacola Christian College. I am a marked man! They hate me. You should have seen Pastor Josh Thompson's face (he was literally sweating bullets) when I visited his Fairfield Drive Baptist Church (five minutes from my house) in 2023. His wife had hatred all over her face toward me. Thankfully, I came and left without any cross words. Pastor Josh wickedly teaches a class at PCC.

I had met Pastor Josh Thompson several months earlier at the Pensacola Interstate Fair at PCC's religious booth in the Exhibit Building (appropriately just next to the Jehovah's Witness' booth). I asked Josh if he was teaching the Gospel or Lordship Salvation? That wicked pastor told me that he teaches Lordship Salvation, citing Acts 16:31b, “Believe on the LORD Jesus Christ.” But carefully notice that the Scripture says to believe on the “Lord Jesus Christ,” it doesn't say to believe on Jesus as your “Lord.” There's a big difference!

I titled this article: 'Ungodly Corrupt Authoritarian Neo-Fundamentalist Churches And Bible Colleges.' You're not allowed to challenge their authoritarian leadership. When they opened their doors in 1927, you couldn't have found a more fundamentalist institution that Bob Jones College (which they changed in 1947 to Bob Jones University). After Dr. Bob jones Sr. (1883-1968) went to Heaven, his sons ran the institution into the ground spiritually. In 2001 after the 9-11 attacks on the World Trade Center, Dr. Bob Jones III decided to no longer call their college “fundamentalist,” claiming that the term had been demonized because of Muslim Jihadi fundamentalists. What a lame excuse for neo-evangelical apostasy and sinful compromise! By God's grace, I am proud to still be called a Christian fundamentalist! We are hated by wicked neo-evangelicals and neo-fundamentalists. Remember, fundamentalists don't change, people quit being fundamentalists!

That is why I call them “neo-fundamentalists,” because they have quit being true fundamentalists. The King James Bible is not merely another “version,” it is God's inspired Word. That is, they have quit adhering to the fundamental teaching of the inspired King James Bible. Today, BJU is a cesspool of iniquity. In 2018, their incompetent president Dr. Steve Pettit removed the institution's long standing policy (since 1927) against girls wearing pants. Woe unto that fool! Shame! SHAME!!! The Word of God teaches MODESTY for females (1st Timothy 2:9). Take a lustful look at Bob Jones today! Only a wicked fool would defend that!

When Pensacola Christian College opened their doors in 1974, they taught a free grace Gospel. Both Beka (1929-2020) and Arlin Horton (born 1928) who founded PCC are BJU graduates! That speaks volumes, because as BJU turned apostate, leaving a free grace position in preference of Dr. John MacArthur's Lordship Salvation garbage (MacArthur is also an alumnus of BJU), PCC followed BJU's downfall into apostasy.

Dr. Steve Pettit has wickedly honored John MacArthur! They are buddies and Mr. Pettit fully supports Dr. MacArthur's damnable Lordship Salvation heresy, because he is also guilty of preaching it! PCC has hired BJU graduates! Wolves have entered the hen house! This is what always happens over time, apostasy sets in like cancer. The first step to change for the worst is when an institution stops contending for the Christian faith! Whatever a pastor stops preaching against is what his church will full up with in five years. BJU went to the Devil a long time ago, and sadly so has PCC. One of the biggest lies you'll hear today is that PCC is a fundamentalist Bible college. No, they are not! They are neo-fundamentalists! They are all wrong on God's simple plan of salvation, pulling on the same rope as the Devil.

I am often reminded of singer Kenny Rogers' (1938-2020) popular 1979 iconic song, 'Coward Of The County,' in which he sings these powerful lyrics:

“I promised you, Dad, not to do the things you done.

I walk away from trouble when I can.

Now please don't think I'm weak, I didn't turn the other cheek,

and Papa, I sure hope you understand:

Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man.”

The man's father had always rightly taught him that you don't have to fight to be a man, but there comes times in every man's life when he has no choice but to fight, because he is a man. I didn't pick these battles, they came to me. I had already formed a negative opinion of PCC before I moved to Pensacola in 2021, but I wanted to go see what they taught and find out firsthand their story. Well, I found out very quickly that they are WRONG on God's simple plan of salvation. Any preacher who places the burden of turning from sin upon the sinner's shoulder is robbing Christ who paid the price for our sins by shedding His blood on Calvary's cross. The true Gospel always points you to CHRIST; a false gospel always points to YOU.

Tyranny is rarely seen except by those who are oppressed by it.

Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”

Don't Let People Guilt-Trip You For Not Going To Church

Hebrews 10:23-27, “Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; (for he is faithful that promised;) And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching. For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.”

We live in a world of self-righteous hypocrites. Sometimes religious people make me sick! Our text passage of Scripture from the New Testament book of Hebrews (particularly verse 25 about not forsaking the assembly of ourselves together) is perhaps the most abused and misused Bible verse today. I have had mean people cruelly throw this Bible verse in my face, trying to make me feel guilty for missing a church service due to my poor health, or for not going to church at all because I couldn't find an acceptable one to attend. That is a very ungodly thing to do to someone, guilt-tripping them.

According to PositivePsychology.com in the Netherlands...

Guilt tripping is a manipulative tactic where one person tries to make another feel guilty to influence their behavior or decisions. It often involves emotional pressure that targets the recipient's sense of responsibility or care for the person applying the guilt. SOURCE

A lot of religious people try to guilt-trip others to be unkind and a jerk. They should all SHUT UP in Jesus' name!

When I attended the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2014, I stayed home the previous Sunday because my neck pain was overwhelming and I didn't sleep well at night. When a young Christian fella in the Navy asked where I was last Sunday, I told him the truth that I was in much neck pain. The jerk said, “Forsake not the assembling of ourselves together Brother!” What he said deeply hurt my feelings. What a selfish jerk! I am old enough to be his father. I am sick and tired of hypocrites! If you ever do that to someone, guilt-tripping them, you are the scum of the earth as a human being!

Several years ago I had another little tramp do the same thing to me. I was visiting the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam in 2018 for about a year. The young Christian woman asked where I was the previous Sunday and I told her the truth that I was at home in much pain and suffering. She looked down her long Pharisaical nose to condemn me, saying: “Well, we have a man in church that has high blood pressure, and he takes the same prescription medications as you do, and he is always here at church.” I wanted to call her a “stupid cold-hearted brat,” but I said nothing as a gentleman, knowing that she is immature as an adult. She had no idea what she was even talking about. In fact, we DON'T take the “same” prescription drugs, and how would she even know what medications we take? Listen dear reader, it is none of anybody's business who goes to church, or why someone stayed home, et cetera. People need to learn to mind their own business!

I have no doubt that some zealous churchgoer is going to criticize me for this article, but so be it, that doesn't mean that I am wrong. God understands each person's individual and unique situation. In his helpful book (that I cherish reading again and again), “I Never Knew You,” by Christian author Michael P. Bowen, he writes on page 115 that he cannot attend any of the churches in his town because they all preach a counterfeit plan of salvation...

According to many verses in the bible, especially those warnings God gave to us through Paul in the book of Galatians, you should never listen to anyone’s message that runs counter to the message given to us by Christ, and you should never attend a church where the pastor tells the flock that they must add works of discipleship to faith in Christ’s “finished work” as the way to enter heaven. That’s exactly the reason why I no longer attend any of the local churches in my current hometown. [emphasis added] —Michael P. Bowen, “I Never Knew You,” p, 115

For that very reason I have been expelled (kicked out) of the last five churches that I've attended, for merely TELLING THE TRUTH. Today's incompetent pastors are dingleberries!

Guilt-tripping is a form of emotional manipulation that can harm relationships and is not a healthy way to communicate. Ephesians 4:32, “And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”  We should be forgiving, kind to one another, encouraging the saints to treat each other with compassion rather than using guilt to control or influence actions. I understand that there are many different scenarios, so I am not addressing every instance in this blog.

In 2014 I heard Pastor Marty Herron at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam tell hundreds of church members one of the most shameful things that I have ever heard. He said, “Once people are offended and feelings are hurt, it's over!” That's holding a grudge! What Pastor Herron should have said is that even though we are all sinful humans, the Bible commands us to forgive, to be kind, and to love one another instead of holding grudges. Marty Herron was henpecked by the rich people in Harvest Baptist Church, under their wicked control.

I am writing this particular article to encourage anyone who like me, has had much difficulty finding a doctrinally sound local church to attend; and who like me, has health afflictions which cause them to need to be at home most of the time. After all, that is why I receive medical disability. Yet, there are many complete jerks in churches today who will selfishly berate, scold, tear down, guilt-trip and criticize you for your situation, having zero empathy for you. I have heard preachers say that if you have to crawl, don't miss church. I humbly disagree. In these modern times we have plenty of solid Bible preaching available on social media.

When you put someone down for missing church, putting the guilt-trip on them for their situation, the Bible likens you to a monster who takes away someone's warm coat in the winter, leaving them to freeze to death in the cold.  Proverbs 25:20, “As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.” That jerk at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam who guilt-tripped me for missing church was a perfectly healthy young man at the time, showing total disregard for my health afflictions. What a self-righteous hypocrite! Be nice to people.

And that young Christian woman at the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam who guilt-tripped me for missing church, she and her husband eventually quit going to church and stayed at home for years! What a little self-righteous hypocrite! To the best of my recollection, as a witness before God my Savior, I have never one time in my entire life guilt-tripped anybody for anything. If I have I am so sorry, but I don't think I have. I am pretty good at minding my own business. Proverbs 26:17, “He that passeth by, and meddleth with strife belonging not to him, is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.”

Sometimes people email me and ask, “Are you talking about me?” I never tell them because THEY KNOW if it's them. I tell them instead what I tell everyone: “If the shoe fits wear it!” If my preaching rings your bell, then I probably am talking about you. If it doesn't then don't worry about it and learn from other's mistakes and sins.

Don't Compare Yourself To Other Christians

I am not trying to upset or offend anybody, and if you are offended then you are missing the entire point of my sermon article. I am simply saying that we should mind our own business. What saith the Scripture?

2nd Corinthians 10:12, “For we dare not make ourselves of the number, or compare ourselves with some that commend themselves: but they measuring themselves by themselves, and comparing themselves among themselves, are not wise.”

It is foolish to compare your life and circumstances to that of others. I used to feel bad when I compared myself to some of my peers that I graduated from Hyles-Anderson College with. Some of them are pastoring churches. Others are laboring on the mission field in foreign countries for Christ. Most of them have loyal wives by their side. But I have a website ministry that is not recognized as a legitimate ministry by most Christians. My wife divorced me in 2006 and left me all alone in my physical suffering and chronic pain.

That really depressed me, being alone and not having a recognizable ministry. If you look at church websites that link to other ministries, I can only think of ONE church website that lists my Jesus-is-Savior.com ministry, and that is the website of my long time ministry friend Pastor Max D. Younce (1935-2023). But God impressed upon my heart years ago that it doesn't matter what other people think, He is my only Judge (James 4:12). My website ministry work for Christ is exponentially reaching far more people than I ever could have as a church pastor or missionary to a foreign country. I am an evangelist to cyberspace, a missionary to the internet, and my ministry is 100% valid and recognized by Heaven's hosts.

I have been dealt different cards in life than others have. I grew up around Skid Row in Chicago, tagging along with my father who ministered to the bereaved, broken and destitute of life for over 30 years as a Skid Row Gospel preacher. That humbled me, allowing me to see where booze and sin can take a person, to the gutter! Thankfully, by God's grace, I have never drank a drop of booze, never smoked a cigarette, and have never taken any illegal drugs. I count myself very blessed, because many people have.

In 1992, I was severely rear-ended by a church bus that permanently misaligned my neck, leading to a diagnosis of Cervical Degenerative Disk Disease and Stenosis in 2004. Sadly, and painfully, I tumbled 15 feet down a conveyor slide at work in 2005, which worsened my injury, adding Radiculopathy to my list of afflictions. So, for a guy like me, God has given me the perfect ministry, that I can work on at home at my leisure. I often need to go lay down and rest.

By God's grace over the past 24 years, I figure I must have at least 50,000 hours invested into my website ministry. There have been at least three times that I remember, when I worked through for 37 hours straight, and thousands of days when I worked for 12 hours or more. It's hard to believe that there are 55,572 files just on my Jesus-is-Savior.com website; I've not been idle for 24 years. I give God alone all the praise, credit and glory (John 15:5).

So, I no longer compare myself to others, because it's simply not fair to myself. Everybody's situation, variables and plight in life is different. God is faithful (1st Corinthians 1:9).

Mind Your Own Business Friend

What do you care who comes to church and how often? What's it to you? You should mind your own business. My old boss used to wisely say: “If you've got enough time to watch what others aren't doing, then you must not have enough work to do yourself.” Amen to that! People should drive in their own lane and mind their own vehicle. Some of the most miserable, hateful and resentful people are the ones who always notice what everybody else is doing or not doing. Really, live your own life in obedience to the Lord Jesus Christ, and pray for others who are lagging behind in your opinion. It's not your jurisdiction to condemn others.

Ah, and then there's the religious hypocrite for a wife, who wickedly badgers her husband to go to church. I fully agree with Pastor Curtis Hutson, who teaches that if a Christian husband tells his wife to stay home with him from church, she should stay home. If you disagree with that, it is only because you have been adversely influenced by the evils of toxic feminism. Going to church makes you religious, it doesn't make you a good Christian.

I’ve been thinking about how feminism is destroying women and marriages. It’s everywhere now. I know a good man whose wife just left him. The guy would have done anything for her, bent over backwards, but she said she just wasn’t “happy.” So many women today have been sold the Devil's lies and they’re chasing something that doesn’t even exist. Many disgruntled wives are wearing rose-colored glasses, chasing unicorns and rainbows to nowhere. Proverbs 14:1, “Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”

With the blessing of the internet in these modern times it has never been easier to obey Hebrews 10:25b, “not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is...” It's not the same as physically attending a local church, I get that. But it is nevertheless possible to hear solid, fundamental, Christ-honoring, Bible preaching today via an internet connection. And you can tithe to a church online. And you can encourage and fellowship with the saints online. Praise God! So, you don't have to physically go into a concrete building somewhere to obey this Scripture.

That being said, please don't misunderstand me, I am a firm believer that everybody should attend a local Bible-believing, free grace Gospel only, inspired King James Bible only, sin-fighting, soulwinning, people-loving, separated, fundamentalist, New Testament church. Nothing can substitute for physically going to the House of God. I understand that only the believer's body is the temple of the indwelling Holy Spirit, but the local church is where we meet, the House of God.

Unfortunately, an increasing number of believers simply cannot find a doctrinally sound church in their local area to attend, and that's a big problem. It's becoming next to impossible anymore to find a Baptist church that doesn't preach the damnable heresies of Lordship Salvation (Calvinism) and Misunderstood Repentance (aka, the “repent of your sins” to be saved garbage). These are corrupt cults that you SHOULD NOT attend, nor even listen to, not for even one hour. Galatians 2:4-5, “And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage: To whom we gave place by subjection, no, not for an hour; that the truth of the gospel might continue with you.” Paul refused to hear the other side of the argument. False prophets are subverted of themselves, like the insane flat earth camp.

It is better to just stay home from church than to attend a cult where a counterfeit plan of salvation is preached, and the Devil's corruptible seed is used (i.e., the Devil's bibles).

So, please don't condemn me for my health afflictions if I stay home from church more than half of the time. You are wicked and a horrible person if you berate and guilt-trip anyone for missing church. What you ought to be doing is encouraging that person, praying for them and telling the individual (or family) that you love them in the Lord. Five minutes of praise will do more to help a person than a lifetime of criticism. Proverbs 27:21, “As the fining pot for silver, and the furnace for gold; so is a man to his praise.”

And please don't condemn someone for not going to church if all of the churches in their area are preaching damnable heresy! I tell you, you'd be ten thousand times better off staying home from church altogether, than to go to a cult that preaches Satan's fraud of Lordship Salvation, and the “repent of your sins” garbage to be saved that Ken Ham preaches; or they use the Devil's toxic modern polluted Bible perversions. RUN away quickly!

Furthermore, not everyone can drive for an hour to find a good church. I personally cannot drive for more than about 20 minutes due to my adverse health and prescription drug side effects, because I fall asleep behind the wheel. When I visited Tennessee in 2013, I fell asleep while driving from Knoxville to Nashville and I almost died, crashing my rent car into the roadway safety traffic barrier. Thankfully, those concrete safety walls are designed to lean back when you hit them, and toss your car's wheel back onto the roadway, which saved my life. I was lucky and blessed. My guardian angels were on the job watching over me that day! I couldn't believe that there was no damage to the car! That being said, I try not to drive more than short distances. So, I need to find a local church that is a short distance from me. I sure wish a New IFB church would come to Pensacola! The fields are ripe for harvest here!

Dear reader, my whole point in all that I have shared with you in this article is simply that you don't know what other people have to deal with. You don't know their whole story. You don't know what prescription medications they are taking, how many drugs, or how those various medications interact and impact that person's health, mind and life. You don't know their marital situation or family issues. Who am I, or who are you, to condemn others for staying home from church? Honestly, in view of today's pathetic church scene, I see a lot of people leaving the churches to find God. I am not kidding!

At present I am taking seven different prescription medications from two different doctors to control my Type II diabetes, triglycerides, neck pain, burning nerves and radiating sharp pain in my limbs. Thankfully, my A1C that was 10.8% in 2023 is now down at 5.5% (normal) thanks to my doctor. I cannot express in words how miserable I am, physically. The agonizing pain in my neck in a burning pain that radiates into my shoulders and upper back. It is debilitating. The entire right side of my body feels half asleep all the time, which feels like dead weight when I stand up to walk. I live in a lonely world of pain and discomfort. It is the “new norm.” God is good and I have no complaints. Pastor Jack Hyles is right that life is a veil of tears.

The sharp pain radiating down my right arm into my thumb is so awful at times. I love playing stringed musical instruments, but rarely feel the ambition to do so. I just need to often lay down and rest. Sadly, my own wife does not understand what I am suffering through, and she is unfairly demanding of me at times, lacking compassion and understanding to “put up with me.” Understandably, I get irritated and frustrated easily. That is why I strive to keep my life simple.

All I can do is take life one day at a time by God's amazing grace. I learned that we do not grow in strength as Christians, we grow in grace (2nd Peter 3:18). Not being able to obtain an adequate amount of prescription pain medication in Florida has made everything much more difficult for me. I am only provided 40 mg of OxyContin daily by my doctor, which is a joke compared to the 140 mg I received daily 15 years ago on Guam. I need at least 80 mg just to cope. Having only 40 mg a day is not near enough, but no one cares.

The federal and state governments certainly don't care about pain sufferers. The pain doctors are afraid of getting into trouble with the government, so they refuse to treat pain. Tyranny is rarely seen except by those who are oppressed by it. We are not anywhere near as "free" as we have been led to believe by the corrupt American media and White House. It is a shame that U.S. citizens suffering in pain are treated like criminals.

In conclusion, if you know a Christian who is not faithful to attend church, don't guilt-trip, berate, condemn or put them down. Instead, encourage them in the LORD by showing unconditional love toward them. How about giving them a big hug in the Lord? Cordially invite them to church, but don't pressure them. And if someone tells you that they have health problems, let them know you understand and and leave it alone. Pray for that individual. 1st Peter 4:8, “And above all things have fervent charity among yourselves: for charity shall cover the multitude of sins.” Please don't miss what the Bible just said... AND ABOVE ALL THINGS... love one another.