Acts 15:36-39, “And some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do. And Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.”
I love that the Apostle Paul had zeal. In our text passage of Scripture, Paul was excited to go back to all the churches where they had preached God's Word and started churches, to see how they were all doing. I love that! How does that compare to many lame preachers today who win someone to Christ, brag about the 200,000 people they led to Christ (which is exactly the number that I heard missionary Steve Heidenreich boasting about online), but never go back to follow-up on those alleged converts? It is ridiculous! Every Christian should try to follow-up on their converts, to see how their doing and to mentor them. I speak to myself as well.
By the way, I once met with Steve Heidenreich in 2004 to discuss becoming a missionary in the Philippines. I paid for the whole dinner, for which he never even thanked me. Sadly, he couldn't have cared less, brushed me off, and spent the entire time bragging about himself that he built $1,000,000 worth of buildings in the Philippines for Missionary Rick Martin. I don't like Steve Heidenreich, he is a weirdo in my book! I learned recently that Evangelist Allen Domelle is married to Heidenreich's daughter. I sure hope the apple fell further than the tree, so that she is not as goofy as her Dad is.
My then wife and young children were with me in 2004, when I met with Steve Heidenreich to discuss becoming a missionary. He didn't give a damn. When he asked me to pray for the meal, I bowed my head because that is how everybody I know prays. But later on my kids said: “Dad, when you prayed, he looked at us and didn't bow his head. He was looking to see if we were praying.” Evidently Heidenreich has some cute little weird thing that he does, judging a man based on whether his family bows their heads too. What the dumb weirdo didn't know is that when I pray with my family, we never bow our heads, I thank God out loud for the meal. Bowing one's head is religion, not prayer! Steve Heidenreich is a religious weirdo!!!
Let's move on, shall we. But then there is something that I intensely dislike about the Apostle Paul, which is that Paul was proud, arrogant and refused to give people a second chance. John Mark messed up. He made a big blunder, which caused Paul some pain and embarrassment, for which Paul refused to forgive John Mark. John has abandoned Paul's side on his first missionary journey, which must have caused Paul considerable grief. So when Barnaba wanted to bring John Mark along to revisit the churches they had preached at previously, Paul got angry and refused. SHAME on Paul!!!
I recently wrote a humble letter in all humility to Pastor Jeff Redlin of Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I asked for his forgiveness and a second chance to attend Campus Church, but he refuses to even have the courtesy to respond to my letter that I mailed him. That is so horrible! That simply vindicates everything that I have written and warned people about him, that he is a heartless academic who woefully lacks God's compassion for hurting sinners. I offered to do whatever he requires to make peace with Campus Church, but he doesn't want peace. That speaks volumes that Jeff Redlin doesn't walk close with God. Mr. Redlin is not a humble man.
Pastor Redlin collects a ridiculous 6-digit salary for playing church, going through the motions, sucking up to PCC leaders, delivering his shallow sermonettes and pretending that he cares about a select few people in his close circle. If you don't love everybody, you don't love anybody!!! What kind of senior pastor shuns someone from coming to church? But a nobody like me doesn't mean crap to a rich snob like Jeff Redlin. The guy has the only reward he will ever receive from God, which is his undeserved paycheck!
As a testimony before God and man, I tried to make peace with Pastor Redlin, but he refuses to do so. I told him that all I am asking for is an olive branch (which is a symbol of peace), but the Bible says there is no peace to the wicked. SHAME on pastors who won't give people a second chance. Jesus said if you don't forgive, He won't forgive either. Matthew 6:15, “But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.”
The same can be said of Pastor Marty Herron at the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam. For several long and painful years I had nowhere to attend church, because Marty Herron refused to allow me to attend churches services. Evidently he considered Harvest HIS CHURCH instead of GOD'S CHURCH. Thankfully, Mr. Herron quit in 2018 and fled back to the United States. Sadly, he is now corrupting hundreds of young people's lives with his Calvinist damnable false plan of salvation at the Faith Baptist Bible College And Theological Seminary in Ankeny, Iowa.
God knows that I don't hate these men, they hate me, because I called them out for their unchristian behavior, for preaching false doctrine, and for dropping the ball for God. Am I the enemy because I am exposing Devil's corrupt Bible versions? Am I the enemy because I expose the Devil's lies of Lordship Salvation, Misunderstood Repentance and Calvinism? I think not. In fact, I know not. Galatians 4:16, “Am I therefore become your enemy, because I tell you the truth?”
Jesus commanded every believer in Matthew 18:22 not to forgive others 7 times, but 70 times 7. Pastor Jeff Redlin won't forgive me once! I doubt if he'll ever write me back. I'm thinking about writing a letter to PCC once a week, for years to come if necessary, going over Redlin's head, in all due respect and kindness to the entire PCC family, until Pastor Redlin responds as a Christian ought. Jesus said to leave your gift to God at the altar, and go make it right with your brother first, and only then come back to God. Until Pastor Redlin makes peace with me, God will not bless him. He may have money, shallow friends, worldly success and the praise of lemmings in his church, but not the blessings of God. I am the only one trying to reconcile and make peace, casting my pearl before the swine with proud pastors who are playing God.
Hurting people hurt people. Pastor Redlin deeply hurt my feelings when he scolded me for confiding in him that my former wife divorced me 15 years ago, and I was hoping to find a wife at Campus Church. Instead of showing God's love, compassion, empathy and some understanding, he harshly scolded me for coming to church to find a wife. But he said that, not me. I never said the ONLY reason I came to church was to find a wife. It just so happens that it is a big church, and I realized that it might be a good place to find a wife, which greatly offended him. You simply don't scold a 54 year old man for wanting to find a wife. That was not very wise of Pastor Redlin to do that, and so I lashed out back against him, because I felt he deserved it. I feel bad about that, and I have apologized to him, but it seems that there is no forgiveness or second chances at Campus Church and Pensacola Christian College (from all the horror stories I keep reading on the internet about students being terminated).
My heart is broken and sad, that my brother in Christ refuses to reconcile with me. I am not just asking for his forgiveness, I am offering to do whatever it takes to make reconciliation. I'll apology to the whole church if that is what he wants, but my hands are tied until he does the right thing. And so, that is where I am at right now with Campus Church. I am still waiting and waiting and waiting to hear back from them, but I am not holding my breath. Something is very wrong with the PCC family, that they require absolute allegiance or else. PCC won't let people be people. You don't get a chance to mess up over there. If you don't believe me, go search the internet for angry former PCC students. I was 100% kind and loving toward Pastor Redlin in the summer of 2021, but he made multiple inflammatory remarks to me, which deeply hurt my feelings. Jeff Redlin drew first blood! He drew first blood. But I am drawing first love. I have written to him to make peace, but he won't respond. What does that say about Pastor Redlin?
I will continue to pray for the guy, asking God to humble him. Everyone deserves a second chance. And to clarify, the things I have said online about Campus Church and PCC I stand behind, but in hindsight I regret saying them, simply because I don't have a church to attend now. Calvinism has crept into so many Baptist churches today. The Smyrna Baptist Church is corrupt. The First Baptist Church of Pensacola is corrupt. The New Warrington Baptist Church is corrupt. I hope and pray at some point that Campus Church will forgive me and allow me to attend their church services. All I can do is try. One day at a time.
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