Galatians 6:1-3, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.”
I am saddened by pastors I see who fail to love people. I know the personal pain of being shunned from churches for telling the truth. When I attended the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam for a year in 2013-2014, I saw much heresy in the church. God convicting my heart to help them. So with my own money I purchased several hundred dollars worth of books and gave them to the church pastors. They were greatly offended. They called me into the church office to scold me, falsely accusing me of causing confusion and divisiveness in the church, and I was forced out of my church family. The truth is that they are already a confused house, using dozens of different Bible revisions. They couldn't have cared less about right doctrine, all they care about is the love of money (their jobs). I left Harvest Baptist Church on Guam and I sadly never heard from anybody again.
Heavy, heavy hang God's judgment upon pastors' Marty Herron, Joe Hensen, Jared Baldwin and Gary Walton, to name the main culprits. They have much blood on their hands for preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation, for promoting the Devil's Bibles, for preaching a misunderstanding of repentance (aka, the turn from your sin heresy). 2nd John 1:11, “For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
Then when I moved from Guam to Pensacola in 2021, I chose to attend Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College (PCC). To my horror, I found out quickly that PCC and Harvest Baptist Church on Guam are best of buddies in spiritual crime. Pastor Jeff Redlin showed his ugly colors immediately, insulting me from the first email I sent to him. I was kind and very respectful to him, but he was rude, disrespectful and woefully lacking in love or compassion for me as a human being. He resented that I mentioned that I am a graduate of Hyles-Anderson College. I learned quickly how immature Jeff Redlin is as a pastor and man.
Sadly, just like Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, I was soon banned from attending Campus Church. I left Campus Church in frustration in late 2021. In 2022 I missed the friends that I had made at Campus Church. So in the summer of 2022 I mailed three letters to Campus Church and PCC, apologizing for criticizing them and asking if I could please come back to church. They refused and couldn't have cared less about me as a human being. They ignored me for six weeks. Finally, I received a cruel email from Pastor Redlin forbidding me from returning to Campus Church, refusing to forgive me, so we have been enemies ever since. God knows that PCC are the one's who refuse to forgive their Christian brother.
Here is our text passage of Scripture again. Galatians 6:1-3, “Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” Sadly, that is not what many pastors do. If the pastors of Campus Church were right with God, they would beg me to come back to church
Ironically, I heard a local Baptist Baptist say in a helpful sermon that when people leave the church, we should beg them to come back. Yet that very same pastor has shunned a man from attending church. What was his offense? He told the pastor the truth, that he ought to be warning his church members about the Devil's corrupt Bible revisions. The immature pastor became offended and told him where the door was, and that he could leave and not come back. The man left in anger, also being immature. This type of fighting in churches grieves the great heart of God. I would love for nothing more than to reconcile with the PCC family, but they are too shallow and immature to love me enough to welcome me back. I did apologize three times to them at Campus Church and PCC. They selectively pick and choose who is welcome and who is not at their so-called “church.” But that is not a church, it is a religious cult, where only select members can attend. Shame on PCC's pastors and leaders!!! I am not the hypocrite, they are, because they are the one's who refuse to reconcile with me.
Pastors should walk head and shoulders above the church members, by setting an example of Christ's unconditional love, forgiveness and a sincere willingness to reconcile with disgruntled church members. It saddens me to see pastors behaving no better than the heathen world. When a pastor tells a man that he cannot attend church anymore, those are inflammatory fighting words. Instead of trying to calm the man and befriend him with Christ's love, the pastor I mentioned has a bad attitude. He has the poor attitude that, “There's the door, leave.”
And may I kindly say, shame on any pastor who refuses to contend for the faith. That is one of the biggest problems at Pensacola Christian College (PCC) today, they refuse to fight the good fight of faith. They refuse to warn people about using the Devil's Bibles. They refuse to warn people about the Devil's counterfeit Gospel of Lordship Salvation. They refuse to suffer reproach for Christ. They refuse to be put outside the gate with Jesus. Jesus has always been outside the gate!!! PCC wants to merely Sit On The Premises instead of faithfully Standing On The Promises. PCC represents everything wrong with Bible colleges and churches today, prioritizing making money over right doctrine.
America is dying today for Christian pastors and churches to love people.
“Let emotion in. Let tears in. You're missing life. Let love in! America's dying for a lack of love and compassion! And our churches are dying...” —Dr. Jack Hyles, “Take Your Shield Down”
“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”
No mediocre pastor will ever grow to become a godly pastor, until he first acquires the great heart of God. We ought to beg fallen people to come back to church. I realize that some men are difficult, but so was the Apostle Peter. Peter was impetuous, swinging his sword first and asking questions latter. When soldiers came to arrest Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, Peter swung his sword and cut off the ear of Malchus, the high priest's servant.
Jesus picked up the man's ear and miraculously reattached it, as only God can do. Peter was quick to cause trouble, a hot head. How sad it is that our dear Savior had patience with Peter, but many of today's pastors have zero patience with difficult people? Pastors are under-shepherds, feeding Jesus' sheep in His absence. A pastor should love everybody and set an example of seeking reconciliation and restoration with difficult people, not shun them.
What saith the Scripture? Matthew 5:23-24, “Therefore if thou bring thy gift to the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath ought against thee; Leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way; first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.” The Bible teaches that if your Christian brother is offended and upset with you. YOU have the responsibility and burden to go to him to seek reconciliation. This is why I know that Pastor Jeff Redlin and PCC's leaders are not right with God, because I have ought against them but they all refuse to reconcile with me. I have already gone to them and apologized in 2022, but biblically they should have first come to me, since I have ought against them. Sadly, PCC has sinfully decided to live by their own book, selectively picking and choosing which parts of the Holy Bible they want to obey, and ignoring the rest.
God's Holy Spirit power and blessing will not come down from Heaven upon a church, if their pastor is biased against some people, but favors for others. That type of pastor is a respecter of persons. When I handed THE TRUTH to the incompetent pastors of the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, they were filled with hubris, arrogance and resentment for me, offended that I would dare to question there doctrine and use of 24 different Bible versions. I know that on Judgment Day I will be vindicated by God, because I was faithful to “rebuke them sharply” that they might be sound in the faith (Titus 1:13b).
I love pastors, God knows my heart. God also knows that I have attended numerous churches where I kept my opinions to myself, lest the pastor show me the door. I cannot help a pastor who doesn't want my help as a fellow preacher. Dr. Jack Hyles wisely said: “Unsought advice is seldom taken and usually resented.” Brother Hyles sure was right about that!
I see struggling Baptist churches that are hardly growing, because the pastor doesn't believe in door-to-door soulwinning (Acts 20:20). Soulwinning builds churches! Prayer strengthens churches. Granted, no pastor is perfect, and it is wrong to expect any pastor to be perfect. That is one reason why I have learned to just stay quiet in the churches I attend, trusting God to work in the pastor's heart. All I can do is pray and hope that God will convict a pastor about the changes which need to be made in his life. It is tragic that nearly all pastors today are stuck in their comfort zone. If we would change the future, we must disturb the present.
No one can make a pastor love everybody. Only God can do that. The Bible teaches in 1st Corinthians 13:1-8 that all the greatest preaching, and the highest degree of faith, and understanding all mysteries and prophecy, are totally meaningless without LOVE. People just want to be loved. That man whom the local Baptist pastor refuses to allow to come back to church, made the tragic statement recently: “Nobody cares about me.” Well, he's wrong, because I sure do care about him, perhaps the only one. The last time I saw that hurting man I told him that I loved him with Christ's love. He needed to hear that, but not mostly from me; He needed to hear it from his former pastor, but his pastor is too immature to love him because he is difficult, opinionated and a bit high strung emotionally.
May any pastor reading this decide to seek to have the great heart of God toward people, without which no man should be a pastor. Who am I? I am a nobody. Galatians 6:2-3, “Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ. For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.” What a beautiful Scripture!!! To love one another is to fulfill the law of Christ. Do you know what that means friend? Galatians 5:14, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” All of the Old Testament law is fulfilled when we love others.
Of course, that is not how we get saved, so we can go to Heaven. Jesus Christ perfectly fulfilled the law, living a perfect sinless life while on earth. Romans 10:3-4, “For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God. For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to every one that believeth.” Concerning the new birth, all of the law is fulfilled by one's childlike faith (trust) in Jesus Christ. Committing even one sin is enough to keep a man out of Heaven. The only other place to go is Hell, to be punished for sin. But Jesus paid our sin debt through Calvary's cross, by the precious blood that He shed.
And then after a lost sinner trusts Christ to be saved, God desires for us to keep the law; not to be saved, but because we are saved. God simplified all of His commandments for His redeemed children, which is to LOVE—to love God with all our heart, mind and soul; and to love thy neighbour as our self. Why don't pastors obey this commandment from God? People just want to be loved.
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