The Sad Case Of Pastor Steven Anderson

Proverbs 26:12, “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.”

Steven Anderson started the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, in 2006. The cult moved in 2025 to Phoenix. From Anderson's ministry has grown the New IFB (independent fundamental Baptist) movement, now comprised of a few dozen churches nationwide. I cannot warn everyone enough to avoid these ungodly wolves who spread false doctrine, slander, false accusations and vicious hatred everywhere they go. The New IFB make Pastor Fred Phelps (1929-2014) look like Mr. Fred Rogers (1928-2003).

No matter what criticism comes his way, in the mind of Pastor Steven Anderson he is always right and everyone else is wrong. Low character individuals like Jonathan Shelley and Matthew Stuckey pander to him (their cult mentor) who can do no wrong in their eyes. The entire New IFB camp is very shallow and immature. I say that kindly in love.

Any so-called “pastor” who goes around inciting hatred of people is a false prophet. Wanna-be pastor Matthew Stuckey recently preached a heretical sermon called, “Friends Come And Go,” which is ironic because Steven Anderson is no true friend to anyone. Matthew preached that sermon because Steven Anderson has literally driven everybody away from him, even his own four oldest biological children who have all come out publicly to expose his abuse and hatred. The ungodly pastor went as far on July 5th, 2026, as to call for the death of his four oldest children. That is NOT a man of God!

• Isaac Anderson exposes his father
• Miriam Anderson expose her father
• John Anderson exposes his father
• Solomon Anderson eposes his father

Why hasn't this wicked fraud resigned as a pastor? By everything the inspired Word of God teaches, Pastor Anderson should have already resigned a long time ago, but he is conceited and will never step down until God removes him. 1st Timothy 3:7, “Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.” These New IFB churches are not genuine “churches,” because in a real church the congregation has the power to fire the pastor. In a real church Steven Anderson would have been fired a long time ago, but since he started the cult in 2006 it is his own.

How can the New IFB hypocritically claim that “friends come and go” when they throw everybody under the bus? There is a revolving door system at Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona. In 2024, when Pastor Anderson's four adult children exposed him for beating his wife and kids with an extension cord, 95 members quit the church. They finally woke up! Were those 95 people just “friends who come and go”? No, they were disgusted with a wicked pastor whose hatred and abusive behavior has finally caught up with him.

Anyone who supports Anderson is not right with God. Little by little as I find them, I am removing links from my own ministry websites to his webpages. I want nothing to do with the New IFB anymore. The “New IFB” is Steven Anderson! The ungodly members of the corrupt New IFB all preach Anderson's beliefs, his convictions, his methods and his hatred of sinners. I simply won't support someone who is consumed with hatred, abusing and hating his own family. What kind of pastor wants his own children killed? The inspired Holy Bible foretells that in the last days men will be “without natural affection” for their own family (2nd Timothy 3:1-5).

I and Pastor Anderson were never “friends,” because a true friend can never be lost. If someone “used” to be your friend, you were merely acquaintances, or perhaps you supported someone for a time, but you were never truly “friends.” So, Matthew Stucky is preaching heresy to say that friends come and go, because that is impossible. Acquaintances may come and go, but never a true friend. Most people haven't the faintest clue of what true “friendship” means.

Unlike Steven Anderson who has never been a friend toward me, I was a friend toward him for many years, promoting his ministry while overlooking his flaws, heresies and abuse. It was a one way street. But Steven's reckless behavior in recent years, with his four oldest children exposing him as an abusive monster at home, his unbiblical teaching that you cannot be saved by faith alone (he says you must pray), his deteriorating public testimony and blatant hatred has removed my rose-colored glasses. I am done with looking the other way.

The Bible says, “A friend loveth at all times” (Proverbs 17:17a). When Steven Anderson turns against people on a dime because they disagree with him on something, Anderson was never a friend to that person. Steven Anderson was NEVER a friend to Pastor Roger Jimenez! Anderson is as shallow as can be, throwing hundreds of former ministry “friends” under the bus. And then he and his cronies have the gall and audacity to accuse his victims of being fair-weather friends? Unreal. Steven Anderson is the fake fair-weather friend!!!

Please understand that I love everybody, truly. I do not hate Pastor Anderson, but I do hate his immaturity, woeful lack of love for sinners, numerous false teachings, and ungodly arrogance that permeates his bad attitude. I am also 100% against the unbiblical hatred of the New IFB toward LGBTQ+ people for whom Jesus Christ gave His life on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago. The Bible clearly teaches in 2nd Peter 3:9, “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”

Kindly said, the New IFB are spiritually dangerous and toxic. Please RUN from their poisonous so-called “churches.” They are not New Testament churches. They are a hateful cult led by one corrupt hatemonger for a leader. If I could sum up the New IFB with one statement it would be 2nd Corinthians 3:6b, “for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.” People will not tolerate hatred. God is love. Preaching hard against sin absolutely must be tempered and balanced with love or else it will just harden sinner's hearts toward God and the truth.

God knows that I did not write this article to attack Steven Anderson; but rather, to teach and warn everyone that the New IFB movement is not what God intended for Christianity to be. The good Lord never intended for pastors to propagate hatred against people. LGBTQ+ sinners are still people who were created in the image of their Creator.

That doesn't mean homosexuals were “born that way,” God forbid. I reject that heretical concept entirely. Like all sins, homosexuality is a choice. Abortion is a choice. Adultery is a choice. Lust is a choice. A woman putting on a pair of pants which causes men to lust is a choice. A crazy mother who murders her three children is a choice. Nobody ever "falls" into sin, we all choose to go into sin. Sin is never an accident, it is deliberate.

Gangster Al Capone (1899-1947) donated food and clothing to the poor people in Chicago, but that couldn't compensate for the umpteen murders, bootlegging, illegal gambling and prostitution rackets that he operated. Likewise, the good that the New IFB have done cannot compensate for their spreading of hatred toward a certain class of sinners, covering up for spousal and child abuse, and lionizing their wicked hateful leader Steven Anderson. A spade is a spade, a liar is a liar, and Pastor Anderson is a monster in the eyes of his own family.

Kindly said, Steven Anderson is worse than a fool, he is conceited. Proverbs 26:12, “Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.”