Revelation 4:11, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
Galatians 5:14, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.”
Hebrews 11:6, “But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him.”
Always be pure of heart dear reader! Be real. I love what my black supervisor many years ago in Chicago used to call “real people.” He was right! I want to be “real people.” That is, I don't want to be a superficial phony who talks the talk, but doesn't walk the walk.
No saint's goal should ever be to be a “good Christian”; but rather, to please God, and in so doing you'll become a good Christian. Some of the most devout churchgoers are horrible Christians, including pastors and their wives. Just because you read your Bible, pray, go to church and even fast, doesn't make you a good Christian, it merely makes you religious. Doing such things may or may not help you to grow in the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, but it all depends upon the spiritual condition of your soul.
Pensacola Christian College Are Not “Real People”
As of August 2, 2022 I have been banned in writing from attending Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College by Pastor Jeff Redlin, because I exposed them on social media for corrupting God's simple plan of salvation concerning repentance. It didn't matter that I tried to reconcile and make peace with the PCC camp in the summer of 2022, they totally ignored me, until August when Pastor Redlin cruelly banned me from attending to their so-called “church.” Since 2022, I have further learned that Jeff Redlin is more corrupt on the Gospel than I had previously thought. Redlin is so far from God it is pathetic. The guy is a child of the Devil, wrong on the free grace Gospel.Matthew 15:7-9, “Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying, This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me. But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
When asked by a lawyer what is the greatest of God's commandments, Jesus replied with these words...
Matthew 22:33-40, “And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine. But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, Master, which is the great commandment in the law? Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”
The greatest commandments in the inspired Holy Bible are really just one, to love. You're only as good a Christian as you love the true and living God and your neighbour (every human being). I don't care how faithful you have been to a particular church, you're not a good Christian if you are lazy at work, don't pay your bills on time, mistreat your spouse and are inconsiderate of the feelings of others. James 2:8, “If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well.”
I can measure how good a Christian you are by how much you care. It's that simple. A man who is right with God cares about right doctrine. A man who has spent time walking closely with the Lord cares to speak the truth with boldness. 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.” I don't care how faithful you have been to attend church three times a week, you are not a good Christian man if you are not bold to speak the truth and contend for the Christian faith.
You show me a wimpy incompetent pastor like Jeff Redlin who refuses to expose error, refuses to preach against sin, refuses to do the right thing, bans people from attending church, refuses to side with a truth-telling preacher and refuses to care; and you can be assured that Jeff Redlin doesn't walk with Jesus! If he did walk with Christ, Dr. Redlin would love his Christian brother instead of banning me from attending Campus Church. That hypocrite gets paid a much undeserved 6-digit salary annually. That is disgusting! As I said earlier, I do not think Jeff Redlin is my Christian brother, I think he is a child of the Devil, since he preaches another gospel (Galatians 1:6-9).
Dear reader, you're only as good a Christian as you live to please God by loving the LORD, and loving people. You're not necessarily a bad Christian because you consume tobacco, drink booze, cuss, have become obese, don't go to church, et cetera. The Holy Bible says it is a sin to get drunk, not to consume alcohol. Most churchgoers have a wrong idea of what it means to be a good Christian. Just because you don't watch TV, drink beer, smoke cigarettes or cuss like a sailor doesn't make you a good Christian, it makes you religious.
If you stay home from church because you have chronic health issues, or cannot find a doctrinally sound church in your town, God fully understands. Thankfully, we can hear excellent Bible preaching online today. My debilitating permanent neck injury, which I sustained in 1992 and 2005 in two tragic accidents, which led to two major neck surgeries in 2009 and 2010, has ruined my life. I have a difficult time even sitting through a church service due to my horrible burning nerves, agonizing osteoarthritic neck pain and tension, radiating pain down my right arm and leg, the entire right side of my body feeling half asleep all the time, side effects from seven different prescription drugs, et cetera. You're not a good Christian just because you go to church.
Church formalism is an enemy of soulwinning...
Colossians 2:20-23, “Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances, (Touch not; taste not; handle not; Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men? Which things have indeed a shew of wisdom in will worship, and humility, and neglecting of the body; not in any honour to the satisfying of the flesh.”
Formal religious worship, rituals, ceremonies, vain prayer chants and such do not impress God on bit. Merely playing church, showing up three times a week, doesn't make you a good Christian. Do you care? How do you treat your husband? How do you treat your neighbours? The LORD desires sincerity from our heart. Psalms 51:16, “For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.” James 4:6, “But he giveth more grace. Wherefore he saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.” Dear LORD, help me to be ever humble. Hosea 6:6, “For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.” God desires our pure heart, transparency and honesty in worship and service, not a mere show.
How do we treat others? If you borrow money and then don't repay it, you are a bad Christian! If you make promises but then don't keep them, you are a terrible Christian. If you abandon your husband, you are a bad Christian. We blaspheme the inspired Word of God and shame the LORD when we behave and talk like the heathen world (Titus 2:13-15). How we live is an open book for others to read. Do your neighbours see how faith in Jesus Christ has made a remarkable difference in your life? Our word should mean something. Life is a series of decisions. Everything that we say and do should glorify God (1st Corinthians 6:20). We were created by God to please Him. Revelation 4:11, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
Faith is living our life in obedience to the inspired King James Bible (2nd Corinthians 10:5-6). You're not a good Christian just because you don't drink booze, smoke tobacco, cuss or watch Hollywood movies. You're a good Christian if your life evidences that you love God and people. There are hypocritical believers who refuse to own a television, but they won't pay their debts on time. There are believers who refuse to eat in a restaurant that serves alcohol, but they hold grudges and gossip about others. What hypocrisy!
Pastor Jeff Redlin wouldn't be caught dead in a tavern, drunk, smoking a cigarette, cussing publicly or in a brothel, but he wickedly hates people. I kindly begged for him to just allow me to quietly attend Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College in 2022, but he wickedly and cold-heartedly threw me under the bus. I wrote to PCC to get them involved, but they ignored me. Now we are enemies. In hindsight, PCC did me a favor, since I have since learned how corrupt they are concerning the Gospel. PCC is of the Devil!!!
That being said, God knows that I do not hate anybody at PCC. I am not giving them rent for free in my mind, or stuck on PCC. Quite the contrary, I intentionally choose to make an issue of PCC. 1st Corinthians 11:19, “For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.” We need false teachers, so that learned preachers like me can expose them!
Kindly said, PCC represents everything that is wrong with the religious world today. They are haughty, arrogant and self-willed. PCC preaches another gospel, requiring sinners to turn from from sinful ways and invite Christ into your life. That's not the gospel! I am simply using PCC as a tool to warn other. Since they don't want to be an example of Christian sound doctrine and love, I am using them as an example of what Christians ought NOT TO BE!
Caring Is The Hallmark Quality Of A Godly Christian
Dear reader, I do not claim to be a good Christian. I admit that I like watching some Hollywood movies. I enjoy my Star Trek and Jurassic Park series, and my favorite movie The Thing by John Carpenter (1982). I have no problem with pumpkins on Halloween, Christmas trees in December, or eating in a restaurant with a bar. By God's grace, I have never drank a drop of booze in my entire life. By God's grace, I have never smoked a cigarette. I am far from perfect, God knows, but I DO CARE! I pay my bills on time. I don't make promises because talk is cheap and promises are so easily broken. I don't want to risk become a liar!
I learned decades ago that going to church, not watching Hollywood movies, not drinking booze, not smoking, not cussing and other touch not, taste not, handle not things are matters of RELIGION, not necessarily being a good CHRISTIAN. The world is full of unsaved religious people (Matthew 15:7-8). The churches are full of religious saints who are lousy Christians.
Smyrna Baptist Church Are Not “Real People”
I've been in church after church where the pastor and his wife were as rotten, carnal and cold a could be. Pastor Bill Adams' mean wife at Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola deliberately came up to shake my hand in 2024 and dissed me, looking hard right off at the wall. Her husband did it to me the week before on Sunday, but he apologized later when I confronted him kindly about it.
Pastor Adams' ungodly wife heard what had happened from her husband and wickedly decided to do it again, on purpose to get rid of me, despising my website ministry. I contacted her husband twice about the incident, but he completely ignored me, likely because she wears the pants in the marriage. So, I never returned to their church, and that's on them. They are living large. In my humble opinion they are merely doing God's work for the income instead of the outcome; individual people obviously don't matter to them. SHAME on Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola! Today's churches are pathetic!
I could mention many more real life situations as examples of what it means (and doesn't mean) to be a good Christian. And again, our goal should never be to aspire to be a good Christian; but rather, to please God as His creation. God is the Potter, and we are the clay formed lovingly in His image from the dust of the earth. Isaiah 64:8, “But now, O LORD, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.”
Furthermore, I am sick and tired of people making excuses for the shameful behavior of bad pastors and their ungodly wives. I understand that everyone has a bad day sometimes. But when a pastor completely ignores you, after you have kindly contacted him multiple times about a problem, that is a whole different ballgame! Clearly they just don't give a damn!
One of the biggest problems in today's ungodly Bible colleges and churches is that THE LOVE OF MONEY has ruined Christians (1st Timothy 6:6-11). The people in these corrupt institutions and organizations become carnally-minded, still getting paid while they couldn't care less about walking in the Holy Spirit. If their paycheck stopped you'd never see them again! In sharp contrast, by God's grace, I haven't taken a single penny for over 50,000 hours of diligent work on my website ministry since 2002. The good LORD takes care of me. I am not a wealthy man; I am a thousandaire, not a millionaire. I have no complaints to our faithful God.
The reason why ungodly pastors like Jeff Redlin at PCC's Campus Church don't care about truth-tellers like me is because either way he still gets paid over $100,000 a year. What's it to him? Jeff Redlin can selectively care about some people, while wickedly throwing others under the bus. Redlin can mistreat anybody he wants and it won't affect his salary. You can tell someone's character by how they treat those who can do nothing for them. Pastor Redlin is a religious phony, not a genuine man of God! His shameful behavior proves what I say. Jeff Redlin is a perfect example of a religious hypocrite who couldn't care less about hurting divorced people who are lonely and suffering. PCC takes in $175,000,000 each year in blood money, mistreating divorced people when they should love them.
Final Thoughts
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, always be pure of heart dear reader! Be real, not a phony. My black supervisor in Chicago taught me 30 years ago to be “real people.” He was right! I want to be “real people,” not a religious phony. We've got too many phonies today in our Baptist churches who merely go through the motions of playing church like it's a game. Pastors who carelessly kick people out of church are not “real people,” they're real jerks!
When I attended Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola in 2024, not once did any of their four pastors bother to walk over to talk with me for the first few months. They're phonies! It wasn't until after the fourth month that the youth director Jared came over to introduce himself, and I greatly appreciate that he did. He's the only one that I have any respect for of all of them. It's not about me, I'm not that shallow; it's about how they treat human beings.
I have tried to be honest and transparent over the decades with my readers, which is the same way that we should all pray to our heavenly Father. Religious formalism has no place in the work of God. I am just a humble broken sinner, who is using what time I have left on earth to rescue as many sinners as possible with the broken pieces of my shipwrecked life (Acts 27:42-44).
I work day and night by God's grace on my website ministry for the sake of the gospel and the Kingdom of God. By God's grace, last month (April of 2026) was the 24th year since I started my Jesus-is-Savior.com ministry in 2002. I cannot believe how fast the time has gone. Wow! Thank you for reading my ministry blog. To God be all the credit, praise and glory, great things He hath done. Jesus is precious!!!
