Friday, June 27, 2025

Pastor Brad Moffett Mistreated Me And My Wife At The Family Baptist Church In Pensacola

Jeremiah 10:21, “For the pastors are become brutish (lacking good sense), and have not sought the LORD: therefore they shall not prosper, and all their flocks shall be scattered.”

Since me and Alice were kicked out of Family Baptist Church in Pensacola on June 22, 2025, we have been sad and understandably upset. I have been emotionally devastated all week. For 45 months, from 2021 to 2025, I developed a sincere love and heartfelt bond with a few dozen people in the church, including the pastor and his family. My heart was in the church, despite our doctrinal differences. I took the good and left the bad.

Yet, in one hasty decision (in anger over some preaching comments that I made on Facebook without mentioning any names), their pastor kicked us out of the church without even talking with us. Who wouldn't be hurt and upset? Since the church is one's spiritual family in the Lord as believers, then no one should take away your family, any more than someone has a right to take away one's biological family. Those pastors are heartless. They didn't even try to talk with us before kicking us out. That just proves how carnal they are at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. SHAME ON THEM!!!

My wife never liked Family Baptist Church (FBC) from day one. She truthfully said she didn't feel the presence of the Holy Spirit in the church. In hindsight, I agree. So, perhaps the Lord was working behind the scenes to get us out of there. They sing a hybrid of old hymns and horrible Contemporary Christian Music (CCM) at 
Family Baptist Church. Alice won't even sing the CCM because she doesn't want those lame songs in her mind. She doesn't want to learn them and neither do I. I hadn't thought about that, but I think she is very wise to think that way. CCM is utterly inferior to the precious old time-tested hymns of the Christian faith. So, I stopped singing them too, so she wouldn't feel alone at FBC.

My broken heart will heal in time. I'm just glad that they hurt us, we didn't hurt them. Alice has been 100% supportive and I thank God so much for her. Although it would be easy to just blame myself for going to these neo-evangelical churches in the first place, like Harvest Baptist Church on Guam and Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, where I knew they were corrupt. God understands my sincere desire to be part of a local church family. The good Lord also sees how difficult it is nowadays to find a doctrinally sound church. Michael P. Bowen in his excellent book, "I Never Knew You," says on page 115 that he doesn't attend any church in his local town because they are all corrupt on God's simple plan of salvation. I don't blame him one bit.

The Lord will deal with those clowns at Family Baptist Church (Romans 12:19-21; Matthew 12:36; 1st Thessalonians 4:6; Galatians 6:7). By coldheartedly kicking me and Alice out of Family Baptist Church without even talking with us about it, they stabbed us in the back. That is not the Lord's way of doing things. Me and Alice could see the arrogance on Bobby Moffett's face in the parking lot, when he coldheartedly said we are no longer welcomed at their church. SHAME! He seemed to enjoy getting rid of us. You'd think after attending their church for 45 months that there would be some regret, sadness, a broken heart and some tears. Nope! All we saw was a calloused pastor with zero love. It just shows that they don't walk with God, if they are even saved. We do not recommend this church to anyone!

In hindsight, I now see that I was blinded by my love for them and a sincere desire to be a part of their church family. I was 100% loyal to the church and their pastor. I always respected Brad's father Bobby, who was their former pastor but took a backseat so that his son could do the job. But that respect only went one way. They didn't respect me, nor my website ministry, which is why none of them ever wanted to learn my story. They never asked for my contact information. They never offered me a soda and invite me to sit down to talk for a few moments. It felt no different than going to McDonalds. That is disgraceful on their part as pastors.

In our humble opinion, there is no genuine love for people at FBC, only a prejudicial favoritism for certain people who unquestioningly submit to church authoritarian leadership. That is how we feel. Since they knew that I disagree with their wrong view on repentance and women wearing pants, from reading my ministry websites, they held a grudge against me the entire time. I know that God will reward my faithfulness. Galatians 6:9, And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.

I listened to Dr. Hyles preach two sermons yesterday, "Christ Died For God" and "Miniskirts In Light Of The Bible." Here is a great excerpt from the first sermon. As I heard these words from Brother Hyles, I couldn't help but realize that 
Family Baptist Church are guilty of not loving the people they drive out of their church. Whereas Pastor Hyles wept over the folks who left upset, the pastors at Family Baptist Church couldn't care less (in our sincere opinion). They have a horrible revolving door attitude at Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. This was our experience at the church.

Pastor Brad Mistreated Us

When me and Alice met with Pastor Brad on April 30th in his office for marriage counseling, and he instead censured my website ministry, he told me that he had expected me to angrily storm out of his office that day. What he said really hurt our feelings, because he had just admitted that he planned ahead of time to push my buttons and fully expected me to explode in anger in response. Why would he do that to us?

Pastor Brad also left the door open, so that a man in an adjacent room in the hallway could listen to our entire conversation, which was very inconsiderate and rude of our former pastor. We don't even know who that other man was. What in the world is wrong with Pastor Brad?

The very fact that Pastor Brad admitted to me and Alice, that he had planned ahead to try to make me angry with his words, reveals his ill intent. God sees what he horribly did to hurt us. But, I didn't blow up as he had anticipated. Instead, I started to weep when he was done belittling and berating me for my fundamentalist Bible preaching, and I sincerely told him that I loved him as my pastor and I didn't want to argue with him. Furthermore, why would Pastor Brad do this to a humble man in his church, who had just asked him a few days earlier to perform his wedding? We were horribly mistreated. Pastor Brad still hasn't apologized for anything. We can only prayerfully leave the matter in the Lord's hands.

God knows that I am slow to anger, like the Lord is slow to anger. I needed a few days to think about the horrible things that Pastor Brad said in the meeting, especially when he slandered Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), falsely accusing him of teaching things on sex and marriage that caused hundreds of families to go into sexual immorality, divorce and shame. We were blown away in horror by his injurious accusations against Pastor Hyles! 

Besides, me and Alice were about to get remarried, and that was all we were thinking about at the time, not Pastor Brad's paranoia over us joining his church. The bottom line is that Pastor Brad took things way too far. He crossed a line. He went way overboard and said some ungodly things to us that awful day. All we wanted was to get remarried and join the church. Instead, we were interrogated like we were in communist North Korea. 

Kindly said, no church has a right to play God with people's lives. I seriously doubt if any other members of FBC would have taken Pastor Brad's mistreatment any better than we did. Just because we weren't official voted in members of the church, doesn't mean that we weren't part of the church family, and a part of the Body of Christ. I attended Family Baptist Church for 45 months, which absolutely made me a member in God's sight.

After a couple weeks had passed and I pondered Pastor Brad's harsh words against my Bible preaching, especially his harmful slanderous accusations against Pastor Jack Hyles' Bible preaching, the
 fundamentalist Bible preacher in me was riled up. I have never been quick on my toes. Someone can insult me with their words, even take advantage of me somewhat, because my brain just doesn't work that fast. But if I have a few days to think about things, I am very strong. God made me that way. That is why for the past 23 years the Lord through me has built a writing ministry (Psalms 127:1), not a speaking ministry. I am not an eloquent orator. I am not good with my words when I verbally speak. In fact, I usually say something stupid that I will regret later, which is why I much rather prefer communicating in writing, because I have plenty of time to think about my words.

It will take some time for us to heal. It's not easy to just "move on" after building meaningful relationships with dozens of people in a church for 45 months. It frustrates me that those carnal pastors hold all the keys (power), and there is absolutely nothing that we can do in this matter, except express our heartfelt opinion on social media. Since it is their church (it's certainly not the Lord's church), they can do whatever they want and we have no say. But thankfully God sees everything, He hears the cry, and we humbly believe the Lord won't allow them to get away with what they have wickedly done. They drew first blood. They hurt us. We just humbly asked to join the church. You couldn't make this stuff up!

Thank you dear reader for visiting my blogs. To God alone by the glory. Jesus is precious!!!

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