Pastor Steven Anderson Is Wrong About Gospel Tracts

Psalms 126:6, “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.”

For many years, Pastor Steven Anderson has taught from his pulpit that Gospel tracts don't work, so Faithful Word Baptist Church doesn't bother to use them. Their church has been very successful through hard work soulwinning to build a strong church without Gospel tracts. Bravo!

That being said, Gospel tracts DO work. I have met numerous Christians in my lifetime, including my soulwinning Bible teacher at Hyles-Anderson College, Brother George Godfrey, who was saved when a Christian lady in a subway handed him a Gospel tract to read. Why limit our outreach for Christ? Why ignore a tool that plants seeds of the Gospel?

“There is power in this Gospel message. Most people just don't know how to present it... The clarity of the Gospel is what makes it easy for them to believe.”—Pastor Yankee Arnold, “WHY GRACE CAN SAVE THE WORST MAN!”

Psalms 126:6, “He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.” Pastor Jack Hyles said this Bible verse could be translated, “He that goeth forth with a leaky seed basket,” shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him. I like that. That's what Gospel tracts do, leaving the seed of the Word of God everywhere we go, the seed by which we are born again, that is, the Gospel. Why not use every tool available? I agree that personal person-to-person confrontational soulwinning is most effective, but why not also utilize other soulwinning tools that are helpful?

Gospel Tracts Are Effective

Now, I have heard Pastor Steven Anderson claim that less than 1% of people are saved by Gospel tracts. I truly have no idea what the true statistic is, but I doubt if it's that low. There is no reliable worldwide statistic for how many people have been "saved" or "born again" specifically from reading a Gospel tract. No church, ministry, or organization can accurately measure that because:

1. Many people read a tract privately and never tell anyone.
2. A tract may be only one influence among many (a sermon, a friend, a Bible reading).
3. Different Christian groups define "saved" differently.
4. Most tract-based conversions are self-reported rather than independently verified.

What we do have are countless testimonies. Organizations that distribute tracts regularly publish accounts from people who say they came to faith after reading one. For example, Evangelism ministries and tract distributors have collected testimonies from former Hindus, prisoners, pastors, and others who credit a Gospel tract as a key factor in their conversion.

Historically, several well-known Christians are reported to have been influenced by Gospel literature. The missionary Hudson Taylor (1832-1905) is often cited as having come to faith after reading a tract, and many modern Christians give similar testimonies.

Some ministries have tried to measure results. Modern digital tract ministries can count things like downloads, reads and responses, but even they acknowledge that a click or response is not the same thing as a verified salvation conversion.

From a practical standpoint, most evangelistic ministries view tracts less as a way to produce immediate conversions and more as a way to "plant seeds" that God may use later. Many testimonies describe a tract being read months or years before the person eventually trusted Christ. God works in mysterious ways behind the scenes!

Gospel tracts have several strengths:

• They can reach people you may never have a chance to speak with.
• A person can read them privately without feeling pressured.
• The message remains after the conversation ends.
• They can cross barriers of shyness, distance, and time.

On the other hand, personal witnessing has strengths that a tract cannot match:

• You can answer questions and objections.
• People can see your sincerity and character.
• You can tailor the presentation to the individual.
• A relationship often gives the message more credibility.

Many pastors and evangelists; therefore, view Gospel tracts and personal witnessing as complementary rather than competing methods. A tract can start a conversation, reinforce a conversation, or continue speaking after a conversation has ended. I definitely think we should use Gospel tracts, and not exclude them from our soulwinning efforts.

1st Corinthians 3:6, "I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.”

Even if a tract does not produce an immediate response, it may plant a seed that someone else later waters. Christians often underestimate how many tracts are actually read. Even tracts that are discarded may be picked up by someone else. There are numerous testimonies of people finding a Gospel tract on a bus seat, in a waiting room, in a trash bin, or tucked inside a book and reading it out of curiosity. Why limit our soulwinning efforts?

So, while there is no hard statistic proving how many people have been born again through Gospel tracts, there is enough historical evidence and testimony that most evangelical tract ministries regard them as a worthwhile tool—especially when combined with personal witnessing and personal follow-up. I say we should use Gospel tracts in any ministry.

Isaac Anderson Speaks The Truth About His Parents

Proverbs 9:9, “Give instruction to a wise man, and he will be yet wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning.”

Pastor Steven and his wife Zsuzsanna Anderson's son Isaac Anderson rightly states:

“God doesn't need people like my Dad. 'Cuz here's the thing, I don't care how many people he's gotten saved, it's not relevant if he is doing the things that he does; he makes the cause of Christ look bad. That's why the bishop must be blameless. It [the Bible] doesn't say, 'Oh well the bishop must be blameless, unless he's really really good at preaching, and reaches a lot of people for God.' No, because the whole point is my Dad (like Nathan the prophet said to David) has given great occasion to the enemies of God to blaspheme. He has given great occasion to the enemies of God. 'Cuz, guess what, why is Jordan [at the Dead Domain YouTube channel] able to make hours of videos trashing my Dad? Well because my dad did horrible stuff. And obviously, I'm sure Fundamentalist Baptists in the New IFB are going to get trashed because of my Dad's actions, just like they got trashed a few years back when Donnie Romero (an Independent Fundamental Baptist pastor) is snorting cocaine and banging hookers, when he's at Church conferences, right? That's a pretty bad look too, but the New IFB if they want to deal with this they need to distance themselves from my Dad, and get as far away from him as possible; and you know, if all [of] them took a stand against abuse, it wouldn't make them look bad. Maybe they'd get a few weeks of bad press for it, but in the end it would it would work out well for them. So yeah, the cause of Christ doesn't need people like my Dad, he's not a good Ambassador for Christ. I don't care how many times he's read his Bible or how articulate he is, he's not a good a Ambassador because he makes us look bad, he makes good Christians look bad.” —Isaac Anderson

Bravo Isaac, you speak the truth! Many Christians are having a difficult time sorting out their feelings concerning Pastor Steven Anderson and his troubled ministry and family issues. But I humbly think his son Isaac nailed it, who understands his father better than anyone. Brother Anderson has brought much reproach upon the name of Jesus Christ because of his hatred of people, bashing of sinners, justifying wife beating, and even calling for the destruction of his own children. This is not the Christian way! I say that with love and compassion.

Isaac also made these statements (with which I concur):

“Jonathan Shelley is a man lacking all integrity.” —Isaac Anderson, a quote from “Episode 10: Isaac Anderson is angry at his father Steven Anderson's abuse!”

“We talked to Jordan [at the Dead Domain YouTube channel] because Jordan was actually willing to listen to us. These people [New IFB] need to quit crying about us talking to Jordan, and ask themselves why they didn’t have anybody who would talk to us. Like really? So, Jordan is (according to them) a degenerate transvestite, reprobate; and apparently still more morally sound than their own pastors. That makes them look bad, if it takes a transvestite to have a better idea of what’s righteous than their own pastor.” —Isaac Anderson, a quote from “Episode 10: Isaac Anderson is angry at his father Steven Anderson’s abuse!”

Dear reader, God is love! It is okay that we should hate sin and evil, but never sinners! God loves people, a concept that has become lost in the vast majority of today's dead churches.

“Receiving from people doesn't make you love them more; giving to people makes you love them more, because you have an investment there.” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “How To Love”

“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...” —Pastor Jack Hyles, “Take The Shield Down”

“You can't love anybody, until you love everybody!” —Pastor Jack Hyles, a precious quote from the MP3 sermon titled, “The Test Of Spiritual Maturity” 

The mistake the church has made, is we have taught people how to quote Scriptures, we haven't taught people how to love people. We don't love people because of what they do, or don't do; we love them because God loves them, and God cares about them, and He wants us to help win them to the Lord. People just want to be loved. 1st Corinthians 16:24, “My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.”

Hating Sinners And Giving Up On Them Is Unbiblical

1st Corinthians 5:9-10, “I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.”

Jude 1:22, “And of some have compassion, making a difference.”

Preachers and religious church layman alike have a long history of wresting Scripture out of context to fit their agendas. People often only see what they want to see in the Word of God. I hear pastors from the New Independent Fundamental Baptist (New IFB, or NIFB) movement preaching hostility toward the LGBTQ+ community. They preach hatred of sinners!

In our text passage of inspired Scripture from 1st Corinthians 5:9-10, the Apostle Paul plainly counters his teaching not to keep company with unrepentant sinners, specifically fornicators, by clarifying that he wasn't talking about unsaved people. Paul goes on to elaborate, explaining that we ought not keep close fellowship with professed believers who still live like the Devil, that they might be ashamed and repent...

1st Corinthians 5:11-13, “But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat. For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within? But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

”2nd Thessalonians 3:14, “And if any man obey not our word by this epistle, note that man, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed.”

The Bible is not teaching to reject sinners here. The context plainly teaches that if someone professes to be a Christian, but is living in open sin, separated saints are not to keep company with them. Those are some strong words from God's Word. The Bible clearly teaches biblical separation from worldly sinners, whether they be lost or saved.

I Grew Up Around Skid Row In Chicago

I saw a different side of life that very few people ever get to experience. My father and I would often see men lying in the gutter of the street, not knowing if the man was dead or alive. Back then in the 1970's when you called 911, they'd just send a police Paddy wagon to take away the individual. I was humbled as a child seeing that on a regular basis all my youth.

I just cannot relate to Steven Anderson's attitude of throwing sinners out the door of the church, hating on them. I didn't grow up that way, thank God! I grew up viewing people as being broken instead of bad. And I sincerely believe that is how God views all of us.

There's Room At The Cross For Everyone

In the late 1800's at the North Orange Baptist Church in Orange, New Jersey, an interesting thing happened one Sunday. It was the church where the great American businessman Samuel Colgate (1822-1897) was a member. Samuel Colgate, son of William Colgate, was an American manufacturer and philanthropist, born in New York City. During a church service a prostitute came forward to be saved. She trusted Jesus Christ as her personal Savior and expressed a desire to join the church. "I'll gladly sit in some back corner," she said.

The self-righteous pastor hesitated to call for a motion to accept her into membership, and for a few moments the silence was deafening. Finally, another self-righteous church member stood up and suggested that action on her request be postponed. At that point, Mr. Colgate arose in her defense from the back of the church and said:

"I guess we blundered when we prayed that the Lord would save sinners. We forgot to specify WHAT KIND. We'd better ask Him to forgive us for this oversight. The Holy Spirit has touched this woman and made her truly repentant, but apparently the Lord doesn't understand she isn't the type we want Him to rescue."

Purportedly, many in the congregation blushed with shame. Another motion was made and the woman was unanimously received into the fellowship. I love that true story!

The New IFB Are Wrong To Hate And Give Up On Sinners

Saul in the New Testament was guilty of hating and murdering Christians, a crime I would think is much worse than committing homosexuality. Yet, Jesus came to Saul in love and reached out to him with the Gospel, and Saul was saved (Acts 9:1-5).

Hatred Of People Hurts The “New IFB” Movement

Galatians 5:14-16, “For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another. This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.”

Before I say anything, let me say that I love Pastor Steven Anderson and am not writing this article to be mean or lash out against him and his New IFB. There's a big difference between lashing out against someone, versus taking a stand upon one's convictions. I am an independent fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher (not New IFB); and moreover, a born again Christian since age 13. I have disliked the heretical New IFB teaching that Christians should hate LGBTQ+ sinners. It is wrong and unbiblical!

Respectfully said, I have heard Pastor Steven Anderson for decades spew hatred of sinners from his pulpit at Faithful Word Baptist Church. His favorite go-to passage is our Scripture text from Psalms 139:21-22, particularly where King David says: “I hate them with a perfect hatred.” Pastor Anderson wrongly assumes that this is the proper Christian attitude for all believers to have, that we should all vehemently hate homosexuals and wicked people. But those were David's feelings, not God's. Kindly said, he is wrong! His father taught him hatred for homosexuals, what he calls the "Reprobate Doctrine" (in this article I compare what Pastor Jack Hyles taught versus Pastor Anderson). To hate anyone goes against everything the Holy Bible teaches for a Christian (Matthew 5:43-44, 22:37-39; John 3:16-17; Jude 1:22). John 3:16, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.”

The Southern Poverty Law Center has addressed the issue of Pastor Anderson's intense hatred for LGBTQ+ people. There is debate among Bible preachers how the government should handle homosexuals. Some more liberal preachers say that homosexuals should be allowed to be who they are, and left alone. I think this is an irresponsible view. Homosexuality is a threat to any society, because it's not merely confined to their private homes. There has been an obvious attempt by the homosexual community since the 1980's to aggressively push their wicked agenda. Furthermore, they are being allowed to legally adopt children in the United States. That is shocking and very disturbing!

Other preachers think that homosexuals found guilty in a legitimate court of law, should be executed according to Leviticus 20:13, which is still a moral law that never changes. Ceremonial laws were only for the Jews, but moral laws never expire. What bothers me is when pastors hypocritically say that murderers should receive the death penalty, but not adulterers, rapists, pedophiles or homosexuals. What gives any pastor the right to selectively decide which moral crimes are worthy of capital punishment? The inspired King James Bible plainly teaches that homosexuality is a sin and a crime (Romans 1:24-32; Leviticus 20:13).

Years ago when I first learned about Pastor Steven Anderson around 2009, I couldn't stand the guy because of his hatred for unrepentant sinners. But like many people I started listening to his sermons and he grew on me. Most of what Pastor Anderson says is good practical biblical advice and life changing. I hate sin and love any preacher who exposes sin, but hating people is just plain wrong!

As a side note: Many of today's Baptist pastors are pathetic. When I met with Pastor Brad Moffett of the shameful neo-evangelical Family Baptist Church in Pensacola in April of 2025, Brad actually claimed that God's prohibition for women to wear men's clothing in Deuteronomy 22:5 was only ceremonial law and doesn't apply today. Not surprisingly, his wicked wife wears her sexy pants in public. Dear reader, Deuteronomy 22:5 is MORAL LAW, which never expires. If it was wrong 3,500 years ago for women to wear pants, it is still wrong in 2026!

Hatred Limits A Preacher's Effectiveness For Christ

But unfortunately for the New IFB, the inspired Word of God warns us in 1st Corinthians 13:1-3 that without love for people, even the greatest preaching and sacrifice is for nought. The old adage is very true: People don't care what you know, until they know that you care.

1st Corinthians 13:1-3, “Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.”

Respectfully, Pastor Brad Strand and Dr. John R. Rice (1895-1980) in their Bible commentaries interpret this passage to apply only to Christian brethren loving one another, but I humbly disagree with that idea. This Scripture passage plainly teaches that if you can preach great sermons, you're just making a bunch of noise if you lack love for people. The Bible doesn't specify or limit this truth only to the saints. A pastor will be ineffective to the same degree that he fails to love people.

Now, Pastor Steven Anderson has been very successful from a secular point of view. His Faithful Word Baptist Church is now running around 300 to 400 people in attendance in Phoenix, Arizona. But most of those people are like him, intensely hating the homosexual community, publicly saying that they wish LGBTQ+ sinners were dead. So, is that really success just because you have drawn a crowd of like-minded haters?

Also, Brother Anderson has been banned in at least 33 countries, so that he cannot reach those millions of people for Jesus Christ. By spewing hatred, Pastor Anderson has greatly limited and hurt his ministry. He is like sounding brass making a bunch of noise, ineffective from Heaven's point of view. Yes, they do get many lost sinners saved, for which I praise God, but the New IFB could reach 100 times more lost sinners for Christ if they would stop hating unrepentant sinners.

God Does Not Rejoice In The Death Of The Wicked

Ezekiel 33:11 plainly teaches that God Himself has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. 

Kindly said, Pastor Anderson has a long history of saying vile hateful things, shaming the cause of Jesus Christ. On June 12, 2016, 49 people were murdered and 58 were injured in a mass shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, which was a popular LGBTQ+ venue. The shooter, Omar Mateen, targeted the club during a "Latin Night" event, and the attack was deemed an act of terrorism. Steven Anderson praised the shooter and celebrated the murders, calling for all homosexuals to be murdered. Dear reader, that is not a true man of God, that is a hatemonger! People will not tolerate hatred!

In sharp contrast to Pastor Anderson's rejoicing in those 49 murders, read what the inspired Word of God teaches in Ezekiel 33:11, “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?” God Himself, our faithful Creator, does not rejoice when wicked people die!!! 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.” The LORD wants all men, even the vilest of criminals, homosexuals, pedophiles and all walks of humanity, to repent of their unbelief to trust Christ to be saved. That is love!

Mr. Anderson is a clone of hate-preacher Fred Phelps (1924-2014), whose church members used to hold big signs thanking God for dead fire fighters, dead miners, dead children, murdered 911 victims, and anything else offensive to infuriate the sensitive public with his hateful shenanigans. I admit having mixed feelings for many years concerning Pastor Steven Anderson and his ministry. He recently threw me under the bus, for disagreeing with Pastor Matthew Stuckey's heresy that the Epistle of 1st John wasn't written to help believers with the assurance of salvation, to KNOW that we have eternal life. 1st John 5:13 plainly calls Matthew Stuckey a theological liar.

New IFB Pastors Have No Respect Or Love For Others 

When I rebuked Pastor Stuckey on Facebook on May 30th, 2026, Pastor Steven Anderson broke off all contact with me, unfriended me on Facebook and blocked me out. I am done being disrespected, mistreated and bullied to stay silent by aggressive New IFB members, while their pastors grossly butcher the inspired Word of God. I have a right to speak up! Unlike 95% of their incompetent pastors in the New IFB, I actually have an earned degree in Pastoral Theology that took me eight years to earn from Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993), signed by my hero of the faith Pastor Jack Hyles.

Pastor Matthew Stuckey was born on June 2, 2000, making him 26 years old today. He has no formal theological training. I am literally old enough to be Matthew's grandfather, yet like the rest of their ungodly heartless New IFB pastors, Matthew has zero respect for me as a fundamentalist Bible preacher or human being. Do you know what that horrible guy did to me? When Pastor Anderson threw me under the bus and broke off our ministry friendship last month, Matthew posted laughing Emojis on Facebook to mock me. He thinks it's funny that Pastor Anderson broke off our ministry friendship. That's typical shameful behavior in the New IFB.

So, I seriously question the so-called "success" of the New IFB movement, when they spew hatred for sinners. Sickeningly, 80% of the churches in Germany rallied behind Adolf Hitler during World War II. Is that success? The Bible has much to say about striving for Christ lawfully. There's a right way and a wrong way to serve God. The New IFB definitely preach Christ of contention, but like the Apostle Paul, I thank God for their soulwinning efforts, which is the ONLY reason I support Pastor Anderson's ministry. To God alone be the glory.

In sharp contrast to Pastor Matthew Stuckey laughing at what happened on May 30th, I wept in tears because someone whom I thought was my friend, Brother Anderson, wasn't my friend ministry at all. I don't think he understands the concept of true friendship. In my humble opinion he manipulates and uses people, and the day that you offend him (as I did) you're axed.

Pastor Roger Jimenez is living proof of what I say. He and Pastor Anderson were close buddies for over 20 years, who are both from Sacramento, California. I heard Pastor Jimenez say that he wouldn't want to be a pastor if it weren't for Pastor Anderson. He loved Brother Anderson and greatly looked up to his friend! But when Pastor Jimenez (the long time pastor of Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento) refused to make a malicious YouTube video in 2024 to attack Pastor Anderson's older brother Clint Anderson, for allegedly "kidnapping his daughter" Miriam, their friendship was over. Pastor Anderson proceeded to regularly attack his "friend" for the next 2 years to destroy him, and he did. That was very wrong and unchristian.

Kindly said, I am not lashing out against Pastor Anderson like I did last week, for which I have already apologized to everyone, including him. I never should have thrown his children in his face. Whatever did or didn't happen under his roof is none of our business! But I will say that Pastor Anderson has made many enemies among peers by his contentious nature. I'm talking about Tommy McMurtry, Matt Furse, Adam Fannin, Joe Majors, Roger Jimenez and countless other wounded and disgruntled pastors. I am sick and tired of all the fighting within the New IFB. They bite and devour each other like savage wolves! There's a reason why Pastor Anderson has been banned from entering into at least 33 countries, because of his hateful unbiblical attitude toward unrepentant sinners that is toxic and contagious. I won't call the New IFB a "cult" anymore, but they are "cultish" in some ways, pandering to their leader.

Truly said, many members of the New IFB are mean, cruel and heartless toward others, showing zero respect. Pastor Steven Anderson called Attorney David Gibbs Jr. a "fat slob." Kindly said, that is not how a man of God should talk. We all have areas in our life that could use some improvement. I am not lashing out against anyone. Dear reader, the way we treat others matters. Right doctrine matters! I just want to be a blessing. I am not trying to attack the New IFB for personal reasons, God knows my heart. Contrariwise, I am rebuking their unbiblical hatred for LGBTQ+ sinners. God is love. God doesn't have love, GOD IS LOVE!!!

We Should All Mark And Avoid Pastor Steven Anderson

1st Timothy 3:4-7, “One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity; (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?) Not a novice, lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the devil. Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.”

Kindly said, based on our text passage of Scripture, Steven L. Anderson has no business being a church pastor. His oldest four children in recent years have all conspired against him publicly to destroy his marriage, home and ministry. You can find hundreds of articles and videos on social media in this regard. I am not attacking Steven Anderson, he has brought this upon himself by his viscous anger, hot temper, hatred of sinners and woeful lack of God's love.

The Bible emphasizes that pastors will be judged more harshly than others, highlighting the seriousness of their role and the potential for abuse of authority. It is important to seek guidance from Scripture to understand the responsibilities and standards expected of church leaders. Sadly, Pastor Anderson has flagrantly ignored the Word of God, doing his own thing.

I made this very important video, which was difficult for me to obtain from Rumble. I had to download OBS Studio (a free opensource program) to record my computer screen, and then I was able to use Corel Visual Studio software that I bought to remove the commercial advertisements from the 30 minute video, but I got it to preserve it. Praise God!

Pastor Roger Jimenez Exposes Steven Anderson

In this heartfelt video, Pastor Roger Jimenez tells his side of the story, to provide context for all the hateful slander hurled against him by Pastor Anderson, which truthful side Steven Anderson doesn't want anyone to see, because it exposes him for the unloving angry man that he truly is; not the caring, compassionate and loving pastor that he refuses to become.

As Baptist pastors, Steven Anderson and Roger Jimenez are both from Sacramento, California. They were best of friends for over 20 years, both personally and ministerially. Yet, as Roger painfully explains in this eye opening video, Steven cruelly threw him under the bus for not taking sides with him against his own family.

Steven pressured Roger to make a malicious video to dox his older brother Clint Anderson, whom Steven accused of kidnapping his daughter. Doxing is the act of publicly providing personally identifiable information about an individual or organization, usually via the internet and without their consent, and or with the intention of harassing or causing distress to the victim. That is exactly what Steven Anderson did to his brother and sister-in-law in South Carolina. I don't blame Pastor Jimenez for refusing to be a part of Anderson's vengeful hatred and vindictive plot to dox his brother. I am certainly not the first person to humbly think that Steven Anderson seriously needs psychiatric help for his angry, abusive and hateful nature.

Pastor Anderson went as far as to accuse his own older brother Clint of having perverse sexual desires for his own niece. Steven Anderson is not the kind of individual that I would ever want to be associated with—a man full of hubris and bitter anger who hates and attacks his own family and friends. I did not write this article to be mean or to attack anyone, God knows my heart. I recommend for everyone to steer clear of the New IFB entirely. In the past I have reluctantly supported Pastor Anderson and the New IFB, but I cannot do so any longer. Their hatred for sinners, anger and abusive ways have done much damage to the cause of Jesus Christ.

Kindly said, I think Steven Anderson is a disgrace as a man of God, and he never should have became a pastor. Pastor Jimenez nailed it in his video, saying that "there is no love in the Anderson home." Steven has never accepted responsibility for his abusive and shameful behavior. He never apologizes to the people whom he hurts. Kindly said, he is a hateful individual woefully lacking in God's love. I want no part of that anymore!!!

Ungodly toxic pastors like Steven Anderson need to be exposed, because a lot of people are confused if he is a man of God or a phony. He's a phony! Since the pastor is big on soulwinning, that confuses a lot of people, so they reluctantly support him and overlook his flaws and deliberate disobedience to the Holy Bible. Steven Anderson isn't just a flawed human being, he is intentionally wresting the inspired Word of God to justify hating sinners. 

The fact that his four oldest children are trying to undermine and destroy his name, marriage and ministry speaks volumes. Those kids are hurting. And for Steven to arrogantly and cold-heartedly say that if he could go back in a time-machine that he wouldn't change a thing regarding how he raised his children is shocking! If what he says is true, that means his kids would still hate him, and there is something VERY wrong with that poor attitude.

You'd think at a minimum, as Pastor Jimenez rightly says in his video, that Pastor Anderson would have at least expressed having a broken heart publicly, and to reaffirm his love for his four oldest children. He hasn't done that! Instead, he has preached a series of sermons from the Old Testament about stoning rebellious teenagers. That is unreal. Steven is an extremely proud individual, who is above reproach in his own eyes. Only God can break him one day.

Anderson says he didn't do anything wrong. Okay, then why are his four oldest kids so angry and hellbent on destroying him? They're not angry for no reason! There is no brokenness in Steven Anderson. There is no love whatsoever for his four oldest children. He has removed all of their photos from social media, disowning them from the family. I haven't heard Anderson once say publicly that he loves his kids. Clearly he doesn't.

Kindly said, Steven Anderson is a poster boy for religious hatred. He shamefully represents everything that a pastor ought not be—haughty, proud, arrogant, full of hubris and bitterness toward anyone who challenges his power and control. What he did to attack, undermine and destroy his so-called "friend" Pastor Roger Jimenez is disgusting, evil and wrong. For two long miserable years (2024-2026), Pastor Anderson preached a few dozen sermons all aimed at ruining the reputation and ministry of Pastor Jimenez. He succeeded (Proverbs 11:9). Pastor Anderson had a meeting and gave talking points to other New IFB pastors who all turned against Pastor Jimenez, railing on him. How is that not cultish?

On January 17, 2026, Pastor Jimenez sadly resigned as pastor of Verity Baptist Church in Sacramento, over a personal undisclosed moral indiscretion. That wasn't good enough for Steven Anderson. He shameful preached umpteen additional sermons attacking the fallen pastor, demanding to know what the undisclosed moral infraction was, so he could further condemn and utterly attack and destroy his best "friend" of over 20 years.

Kindly said, Steven Anderson is a hateful MONSTER!!! With a fake friend like him, you don't need any enemies! God pity that wicked pastor. Being imperfect is one thing, but wresting the Bible to justify those imperfections is another thing entirely. Pastor Anderson has twisted the Holy Bible around to justify hating unrepentant sinners, hating his own family, and hating preachers like me who expose him for the religious phony that he shamefully is.

Please know that I did not post this video and these comments to be mean, nor to attack Pastor Anderson; but rather, to hopefully wake up some of his blinded followers in the New IFB who pander to him, empowering him to continue hurting people and blaspheming the name of Jesus Christ. Anderson's vehement hatred of the LGBTQ+ community for whom Christ died on Calvary's cross is inexcusable. God is love! Christ died for all men, even for the vilest of evil sinners (Romans 5;6-9). Jude 1:22 teaches for God's children to have compassion on sinners, so that we can make a difference for Christ.

God desires for all men to repent of unbelief to be saved (2nd Peter 3;9). The Lord has no pleasure in the death of the wicked (Ezekiel 33;11). But Pastor Anderson wickedly praised the murder of 49 people in 2016 at the Pulse gay nightclub massacre in Orlando, Florida. No genuine man of God would have rejoiced about that tragedy. God has no pleasure in the death of the wicked. Steven Anderson's preaching goes totally contradictory to the inspired Holy Bible, which is why we should all be wise to mark and avoid him and his cult of followers.

I love you all unconditionally with God's love, whosever you may be. Everybody is welcome at my ministry. I just want to be a blessing to as many people as I can for Jesus Christ. If you're looking for a big sinner, you've found the biggest one right here. I am just a sinner saved by God's grace. Thank you for reading my ministry blog. To God be all the glory.

There's Nothing “Fundamentalist” About Hating People

Matthew 22:36-40. “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.”

I had first learned about Pastor Steven Anderson and his Faithful Word Baptist Church around 2009. The church was started in 2006 in Tempe, Arizona. Out of that one church and Pastor Anderson's strong evangelical influence, several dozen other churches have also started. As a group that call themselves New Independent Fundamental Baptists (New IFB, or NIFB).

Kindly said, the New IFB movement call themselves “fundamental,” but that is a misnomer (an incorrect or unsuitable name) when they spew and teach hatred for sinners. To truly be a fundamentalist, in the Christian sense, it means that you adhere to the fundamental teachings of the inspired Holy Bible, and that you separate from those who do not. That being said, the inspired King James Bible does NOT teach hatred toward anyone. Pastor Anderson, respectfully said, has wrested the Holy Bible in an attempt to teach hatred for sinners. This heresy goes totally contrary to everything that the Word of God teaches.

Over the past 17 years I have had strong mixed feelings toward the New IFB over several issues, primarily with their ideology that God hates homosexuals and so should you, and that LGBTQ+ people are beyond the hope of the gospel, so we should just throw them under the bus by not sharing the gospel with them.

As blatant living proof that Steven Anderson and his New IFB cultish movement are WRONG, there is the ministry New Hope Ministry started by Frank and Anita Worthen, two former homosexuals who found salvation and deliverance through faith in Jesus Christ. There is hope for homosexuals!!! Frank and Anita are living proof that the New IFB are very wrong and unbiblical in their teaching and preaching that God hates LGBTQ+ people and that they cannot get saved. It ceases to anger and frustrate me hearing these hateful New IFB pastors perverting God's Word, teaching hatred toward humans created in God's very own image.

Homosexuality Is A Sin In The Holy Bible

That being said, and I know I will upset some people here, homosexuality is a horrible sin condemned in the Word of God. And yes, Leviticus 20:13 calls for capital punishment for them if convicted in a valid court of law. Leviticus 20:13, “If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.” In the year 1962, homosexuality was still a punishable crime in all 50 states in our nation. What changed? God hasn't changed (Malachi 3:6). The Holy Bible hasn't changed (Matthew 5:18). What has sadly changed is that our American culture has deteriorated because of the influence of Hollywood, apostate churches, the controlled mainstream media and other detrimental ungodly influences.

Steps In The Degeneration Of Our Nation (1967)

More Sermons By Brother Lester Roloff

There is much debate among theologians, clergy and church layman over the issue of punishment, if any, for homosexuals. The common claim is that Leviticus 20:13 was given under the Mosaic Law, when Israel was a theocracy, so it only applied to Old Testament Jews.

Another common thing that proponents of having no punishment for homosexuality bring up is that under the Mosaic Law, you would have been killed for eating lobster, or rebelling against your parents, or picking up sticks on the Sabbath Day, and they would be correct.

My humble opinion in the matter, and this is just what I believe, is that God's prohibition of homosexuality and capital punishment for committing it are unchanging moral laws. I think we must use wisdom to separate moral laws (that never expire) from ceremonial laws (which were temporal only for Jews living under Moses' law). The prohibition to eat lobster was clearly a ceremonial law.

On April 30, 2025, I was confronted by Pastor Brad Moffett at the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola. I had attended their church for 45 months, before they kicked me and my wife out over my preaching against women wearing pants (his wife and mother wear pants). Brad's wife couldn't stand me over my stance, so she pressured her husband to censure my ministry. 

Brad also didn't like that I preach the death penalty for homosexuals if convicted in court. The immature pastor said Romans chapter one proves that homosexuals ought not be punished, because God didn't kill them, He “gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.” But God doesn't kill murderers either, does He? No, God has entrusted and empowered our government to enforce righteousness by punishing lawlessness (Romans 13:1-4). Our country's founding fathers in the United States castrated homosexuals. Go check for yourself!

I reasonably asked Pastor Brad Moffett if he believes in capital punishment for murderers, and he conceded that he does. So, I asked him what gives him or anyone else the right to selectively pick and choose which of God's moral laws are worthy of the death penalty. What gives anyone that right? We don't have a right to decide that murderers should die, but adulterers, kidnappers, rapists, pedophiles and homosexuals should live, when God's law plainly requires the death penalty for all those crimes. I'm just telling you what the Bible says. 

Not only do today's lawmakers flaunt God's law by refusing to punish crime, but they mock God in Maryland by only charging a $10 penalty fee for the crime of adultery. Go check! That is wicked blasphemy against a holy God! Ecclesiastes 8:11, “Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.” I was born in 1967. I can honestly say that I do not recognize the country I grew up in today. I never thought I would see a time in my country when thousands upon thousands of young punks would smash, riot, vandalize, pillage and steal from business in major cities across the United States with impunity. In cities like Los Angeles, if you get caught stealing anything under $1,000 you merely receive a citation, just like double parking. No wonder crime is out of control. New York City is just as bad and only waxing worse!

Everything has deteriorated in American society. Today's music and movies are garbage. There's no more bands. Young people have lost their inspiration to do anything. Everything has been ruined by corporate and personal greed. We've gone away from the holy God of the King James Bible. Elderly people across our country are suffering. Many cannot afford medical care. Homelessness is at epidemic levels due to a woeful lack of affordable housing. Contrary to President Trump's 'Make America Great Again' rhetoric, inflation is higher than ever. Housing prices have not come down! Yet, President Trump has added another $3 trillion of national debt to our miseries. I digress from the subject at hand.

We Should Love LGBTQ+ Sinners With Christ's Love

That all being said, since our federal and state governments today have spiraled downward into wickedness and no longer punish homosexuality, all we can do is try to get them saved by sharing the 'GOOD NEWS' (Gospel) of Jesus crucified, buried and risen for them (1st Corinthians 15:1-4).

I love people! I love LGBTQ+ people and am kind to them, as I am to everyone with God's unconditional love. It is not my place or jurisdiction as a U.S. citizen to punish criminals. But it is my duty as a Bible preacher to tell the truth, damn the torpedoes!

I can tell you with all biblical authority that the New IFB, including pastors' Jonathan Shelley and Steven Anderson, are very WRONG to preach hatred toward homosexuals. I cringe when I hear them spewing hate, calling for homosexuals to shoot themselves in the head. That is wrong! God loves everyone. There is not one LGBTQ+ sinner who has not been created in the image of God, our Creator. Don't anyone dare try to convince me that we should hate someone for whom Christ died on Calvary's cross 2,000 years ago. You are special to God, I don't care who you are!

Again, in closing, there is absolutely nothing “fundamental” (in the Christian or biblical sense) about hating people, regardless of who they are or what they have done. I have seen prison wardens weep in tears as they flipped the throw switch to electrocute an inmate on death row. That is the heartfelt concern and love that we should all have for others. What saith the Scripture? Ezekiel 33:11, “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?”

Dear reader, if you have a problem with the following image, you do not understand or closely know the loving God of the Holy Bible. The NIFB would reject and criticize this image, claiming that Jesus hates LGBTQ+ people like they do. The LORD does not accept or sanction their wickedness, but He still loves and died for them. John 7:7, “The world cannot hate you; but me it hateth, because I testify of it, that the works thereof are evil.” In John 5:40 Jesus didn't say, "ye cannot come"; but rather, He said, "Ye will not come" to Him that you might have life. The free gift of forgiveness of sins and eternal life is offered by God to whosoever wants it; free for the taking. Simply believe that Jesus did it all for you. That is, place your whole trust in Christ's death on the cross, burial and His bodily resurrection the third day. This is "the gospel" by which all who BELIEVE IT are saved (Romans 1:16; 1st Corinthians 15:1-6).

From Genesis to Revelation the inspired King James Bible teaches love. There's nothing “fundamentalist” about hating sinners for whom Christ gave His life on Calvary's cross. We are taught in the Scripture to hate evil (Psalms 97:10), but never sinners for whom Christ died.

New IFB Pastors Are Not Above Reproach

Titus 1:9-14, “Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers. For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision: Whose mouths must be stopped, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake. One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies. This witness is true. Wherefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith; Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.”

There is a disturbing prevalent heresy in the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist (New IFB, or NIFB) movement that says no one is permitted to challenge, question or oppose the teachings and preaching of their leaders. Nothing could be more unbiblical!

I recently corrected some heresy by a NIFB pastor, but one of their aggressive followers wrongly accused me of bringing an accusation against an elder. That is lunacy! He cited 1st Timothy 5:19, “Against an elder receive not an accusation, but before two or three witnesses.” This Scripture passage is talking about a member of a church accusing one's pastors of adultery, stealing money or some other serious offense. It does not mean that no one can challenge a doctrinal video that he uploads to YouTube!

Sadly, the New IFB is full of religious nuts! Pastor Steven Anderson is their leader, and he is harsh and aggressive, cold and mean. Once you offend him, it's over; you don't get any second chances. Respectfully said, the guy is shallow, woefully lacking God's love for sinners.

Part of the problem is that Pastor Anderson has been very successful, which success has enabled him to throw his enemies, former disgruntled church members, upset ministry peers, angry family members and wounded friends under the bus while ignoring their cries. I know because I am one of them! For every wounded person that he throws under the bus, he has ten more loyal followers to pander to him. And that just enables him to continue hurting people.

Kindly said, the New IFB's pastors are not apostles! They are definitely not above reproach. Learned Christians are not railing on New IFB pastors for calling them out for their numerous heresies. Onorato Diamante on YouTube is a layman, like myself, and like myself he exposes the New IFB false teaching that you cannot go to Heaven without praying a sinner's prayer. 

The New IFB are very wrong in this doctrinal matter! In several dozen Scripture passages we are plainly taught that the way of salvation is simply to believe on the name of the Lord Jesus Christ (John 3:14-18, 36; 5:40; 6:28-29, 40, 47; 10:1, 9; 11:25; 20:31). We are saved by believing the Good News of Jesus Christ crucified, buried and risen to be saved (1st Corinthians 15:1-6). In none of those passages are we taught to call, ask, confess, repent or pray to be saved, but only to BELIEVE. Faith is the only righteous thing that I can do.

I kindly correct New IFB pastors all the time for their gross theological incompetence. Every New IFB pastor that I know of teaches hatred for the LGBTQ+ community, which is totally unbiblical. Although I do believe that homosexuality should be a punishable crime, I also believe that even the vilest criminal is still created in God's image, and we ought not hate someone. Christ died for the vilest sinners (Romans 5:5-9).

I have seen prison wardens weep in tears while flipping the throw switch for an electric chair. That is the condition of heart that we should all have as Christians. Ezekiel 33:11 plainly teaches that God Himself has no pleasure in the death of the wicked.

In 2016, Pastor Steven Anderson rejoiced when a 26 year old deranged gunman murdered 49 victims in the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida, a known LGBTQ+ hangout. What Pastor Anderson did was wicked and very wrong! What gives anyone the right to rejoice when the wicked die, when God Himself has no pleasure in the death of the wicked?

2nd Peter 3:9 tells us that God desires for all men to repent of their unbelief, to trust Christ to be saved. It is not God's will for ANY to perish! This strongly disproves the heretical popular New IFB heresy that homosexuals are beyond the hope of the gospel, so don't bother witnessing the gospel to them. NIFB pastors call this the “Reprobate Doctrine,” which heresy Steven Anderson learned from his doctrinally unlearned father (which Steven has openly admitted).

Pastor Jack Hyles taught a much milder form of the Reprobate Doctrine, but unlike the New IFB Dr. Hyles didn't create a pet doctrine and give it a name like Steven Anderson has. Dr. Hyles simply believed that biblically there is such a thing as a “reprobate.” But what Brother Hyles taught versus what Steven Anderson teaches are lightyears apart. This chart is invaluable to help understand how unbiblical the New IFB are in their doctrine. ...

Major “Reprobate Doctrine” Comparison

Shame on the New IFB for preaching hatred toward people!!!

I Was Raised To Love Sinners, Not hate Them

I grew up around Skid Row in Chicago, tagging along with my father who was a Skid Row minister for over 30 years. My father and I more times than I can remember got out of the car and saw men lying in the street gutter at 34 S. Desplaines avenue in front of the rescue mission. We didn't know if they were dead or alive. My father called 911 and they always sent a police paddy wagon to come get them.

My father took this photo on the front steps of Chicago United Mission, our rescue mission...

My father once threw away a case of expired Vanilla extract and drunkards remove it from the garbage and drank it. Some men drank paint thinner, sniffed model glue, et cetera. I've seen teenagers sniffing spray-paint from paper bags! White paint was running out of their nostrils. Once the Devil takes over your brain, you are in gat danger!

“No man has as much sense after he drinks as he did before he drinks.” —Evangelist Lester Roloff

I am so thankful that I was raised NOT to hate sinners. I was raised to love and have compassion of human beings, to see them as being broken rather than bad. That is what made Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001) such a great pastor—he loved the down and out, the rejects, the poor, the mission men, the guilty, the broken hearted and bereaved of society. Jude 1:22-23, “And of some have compassion, making a difference: And others save with fear, pulling them out of the fire; hating even the garment spotted by the flesh.” There is something very wrong with the aggressive New IFB and their hateful pastors. God is love.

BEWARE of the New IFB's teaching that we should bash and hate LGBTQ+ people. Certainly, we ought not accept them in their unrepentant state as church members in good standing. Every pastor has a biblical duty to spare not and cry aloud against the sins of the people; but at the same time we must love and show compassion toward all men, seeing through their faults for what they can be through faith in the gospel. We are commanded to love our neighbours (Matthew 22:39), and the Lord did not place exclusions upon that command.

David’s Perfect Hatred Of Sinners Is Not God’s Opinion

Psalms 139:21-22, “Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.”

Before I say anything, let me say that I love Pastor Steven Anderson and am not writing this article to be mean or lash out against him. There's a big difference between lashing out against someone, versus taking a stand upon one's convictions. I am an independent fundamentalist Baptist Bible preacher (not New IFB); and moreover, a born again Christian since age 13. I have disliked the New IFB teaching that Christians should hate LGBTQ+ sinners. It is wrong!

Respectfully said, I have heard Pastor Steven Anderson for decades spew hatred of sinners from his pulpit at Faithful Word Baptist Church. His favorite go-to passage is our Scripture text from Psalms 139:21-22, particularly where King David says: “I hate them with a perfect hatred.” Pastor Anderson assumes that this is the proper Christian attitude for all believers to have, that we should all vehemently hate homosexuals and wicked people.

But I was reading The Strand Study Bible this evening (which is my favorite Bible commentary), and I read Job 20:5, “That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?”

Pastor Strand gives this commentary for this Scripture passage:

It is not always true “that the triumphing of the wicked is short.” Sometimes evil men live full lives (Psa. 73:3-12). It must be remembered that the Bible often quotes the words of its characters without endorsing those words, or reports their beliefs and their statements without comment. Zophar, angry with Job for his previous remarks (Job 19:28-29), was simply attempting to vilify Job here by making “suffering” Job appear to be “wicked” Job. —Pastor Brad Strand, The Strand Study Bible, p. 831, Job 20:5

When I read this commentary, I immediately remembered Psalms 139:21-22 where David said he hated the wicked with a perfect hatred, because what David said goes contrary to everything the Word of God teaches.

Clearly, David was not thinking according to God’s thoughts. …

Matthew 5:43-48, “Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.”

In His Beatitudes (or as I like to call them, “the attitudes that should be”), Jesus taught that we should love everyone, even those who hate us. This is totally the opposite of David’s “perfect hatred” for the wicked in Psalms. You cannot show me one verse in the inspired Word of God where God teaches that we should hate people!

Jesus Christ Is My Only Righteousness

I am not sorry to disagree with the corrupt New IFB concerning their despicable teaching that Christians should intensely hate LGBTQ+ people. I have news for you, whoever you may be, you and I are just as wicked as the vilest sinner upon the earth. The only thing that makes me or you any more righteous than John Wayne Gacy, Adolf Hitler or Taylor Swift is the precious blood of Jesus Christ that washes our sins away. I have no righteousness of my own to offer God, and neither do you dear reader. Isaiah 64:6, “But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.” Our best is filth to God. The only thing that makes a child of God any more righteous than the vilest homosexual is the precious blood of Jesus that washed our sins away the moment we were saved.

God loves everyone without exception! The idea that God hates a certain group of sinners (homosexuals), when the ONLY righteousness that any Christian possesses is the imputed righteousness of God which is through faith in Jesus Christ, is preposterous! ...

John 3:16-17, “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.”

How could anyone, especially a pastor, read this beautiful passage of inspired Scripture and walk away thinking that God hates anyone? Kindly said, with respect, something is seriously wrong with Pastor Steven Anderson. His hateful spirit is wrong! I didn’t write this blog to be mean or rail on anybody, truly, God knows my heart; but rather, for a couple reasons:

• First, to teach you the truth that it is biblically wrong to hate anyone We can hate what people do, and hate what they become, but we ought never hate the individual whom God created in His image, and for whom Jesus died on the cross.
• Second, in hope that you won’t become a hateful person like many in the New IFB. Their horrible pastors have foolishly taught them to hate unrepentant sinners, but the inspired Holy Bible says God still loves them very much, and desires for all men to come to repentance to be saved (2nd Peter 3:9).
• Third, to teach you that the Bible is full of statements and attitudes that weren’t necessarily proper or right, so we need to be careful not to just assume that we should behave like they did. When David’s wife Michal (Saul’s daughter) mocked David after a day of dancing and rejoicing in the Lord, calling him a fool, she died barren. David held a lifelong grudge against her, which was very wrong. David held strong grudges against people. Just because he felt a perfect hatred toward wicked sinners doesn’t mean that we should.

The great God who made the universe loves you dear reader. He loves the homeless person on the street. He loves the criminal spending the rest of his or her life in prison. He loves the LGBTQ+ person who feels lonely and hated by the religious community. God sees all of our needs, burdens, suffering, loneliness and pain.

God Has No Pleasure In The Death Of The Wicked

In 2016, after a deranged 26 year old gunman shot and killed 49 people in a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, Pastor Steven Anderson wickedly praised the shooter and reiterated his vehement hatred for LGBTQ+ people. What saith the Scripture?

Ezekiel 33:11, “Say unto them, As I live, saith the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn ye, turn ye from your evil ways; for why will ye die, O house of Israel?”

The faithful LORD desires for all people to be saved (2nd Peter 3:9). God loves every living human being, and so should we. I think we would all do well to remember Jesus' command in Matthew 22:39, “And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” This is the second of Christ's great commandments, the first being to love God. No one loves God who does not love all of one's neighbours, regardless of who they are.

I Apologize To Pastor Steven Anderson And Everyone

Ephesians 4:29-32, “Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers. And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption. Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”

I sincerely apologize to everyone for this past week. I got angry and I am sorry. I love and respect Pastor Steven Anderson, and I apologize to him too for lashing out against him in anger this week. I have removed all my posts about his children from Facebook. The faithful LORD has been convicting me for the past few days. Taking a stand upon our convictions is one thing, but lashing out in anger to hurt someone (especially a Christian brother) is just plain wrong. It doesn't matter if Pastor Anderson apologizes to me, I am apologizing to him. I am sorry to everyone! God deserves better.

On May 30th, 2026, I read a disturbing post on Pastor Anderson's Facebook page (which links to a YouTube video by Pastor Matthew Stuckey), in which he errantly teaches that the Epistle of 1st John wasn't written so that a believer can “know that ye have eternal life,” which contradicts the exact text of 1st John 5:13. Here is my unedited rebuttal of his YouTube video.

I had made an additional comment in a separate post, saying: "I am tired of New IFB pastors butchering the Word of God and getting upset when people like me correct them, and if anybody doesn't like it, there's the damn door!" So, Pastor Anderson unfriended and blocked me out without saying a word, and I got very angry at him, and I lashed out against him for a couple days. The Lord has been convicting me, because that is not me. I don't want to become bitter and hateful toward anyone, let alone my Christian brother, as flawed as he is as a preacher. We are all flawed. We are all guilty horrible sinners. No one has it all together!

Mrs. Beverly Hyles (1929-2017) was right that so often it's hurting people that hurt people. I have been a curious follower of Brother Anderson for 17 years, since I learned about his soulwinning ministry around 2009. That being said, I have struggled with mixed feelings toward the New IFB for all that time over numerous problematic issues. Pastor Anderson is 100% WRONG to teach that God hates anybody, people for whom Christ died on a cross in love.

He was very WRONG in 2016 to publicly praise the murder of 49 people in the gay Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. I have intentionally looked the other way all these years, because I love Brother Anderson and realize that he is who he is, and I have learned so much from the guy. He is truly a blessing to thousands of people, and a great soulwinner. That being said, I humbly think 2nd Chronicles 25:1-2 is the best passage of Scripture to describe Pastor Anderson.

2nd Chronicles 25:1-2, “Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.  And his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem. And he did that which was right in the sight of the LORD, but not with a perfect heart.”

Respectfully said, Pastor Steven Anderson's heart is not perfect toward God. NO ONE is right with God who hates and teaches hatred toward anyone. His go-to passage of Scripture is Psalms 139:22, “Do not I hate them, O LORD, that hate thee?  and am not I grieved with those that rise up against thee? I hate them with perfect hatred: I count them mine enemies.” This is David's words, NOT God's! What David said goes 100% contrary to everything that the Holy Bible teaches. As for Brother Anderson's go-to passage of Scripture, I believe we all would do well to adopt Matthew 22:39 in regards to having hatred towards others. Matthew 22:39, “And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” Jesus didn't offer exceptions to this commandment, filtering out certain groups.

John 3:16 teaches that God loves the world, so much so that He gave His only begotten Son to die for EVERYONE on Calvary's cross. Pastor Anderson has foolishly taken this one passage of Scripture, from a guy in the Old Testament who held many life long grudges against numerous people. Michal, David's beloved wife, upset him one day, and she died barren because David disowned her. That is not the love and forgiveness of the God that I know. Just because David was called "a man after God's own heart" in his youth, doesn't mean that he wasn't a sinner, or that everything that he felt, did and said was pleasing to God.

I am sorry for my anger and for attacking Pastor Anderson by throwing his children in his face. I was wrong. Please forgive me. And Pastor Anderson too! I will continue to promote the sermons and ministry of my beloved Brother in Christ, but I won't hold back expressing my heartfelt feelings anymore about problematic issues within the New IFB, but I will do it in a Christian spirit of love, good will and respect for Pastor Steven Anderson. I love the guy, truly!

Nothing caused me to change my mind except the conviction of the Holy Spirit concerning my own hurt feelings and pondering the matter. I realize that a lot of people hate Pastor Anderson, but they are just as guilty as he is for doing so. We ought never to hate anybody! 

Faithful Word Baptist Church led 10,321 lost sinners to Christ in 2025. You better believe that I'm going to support a soulwinning work like that, but not while wearing blinders or rose-colored glasses anymore. If the shoe fits, wear it! When you're right, you're right; when you're wrong, you're wrong! My job as a Bible preacher is to tell the truth and damn the torpedoes, but done in a spirit of love and respect toward others. By God's grace, I will be that preacher!

I think what Paul Wittenberger is doing to destroy Pastor Anderson is wicked and I WON'T be sharing his horrible "Man of God" video slandering Pastor Anderson. "Framing The World" movie producer Paul Wittenberger is angry because he lost his Alex Jones' connection and potentially hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenues. This happened as a consequence of Pastor Anderson preaching against Alex's worldliness and heresy. Alex kicked him out, refusing to sell Paul's movies anymore. Steven Anderson is not for sale! I respect him for that.

I have already removed my negative comments about Pastor Anderson from Facebook and my blogs. This was just not me this past week. I've been out of character over my hurt feelings. Please try to understand that I am taking several different prescription medications. I suffer in constant chronic debilitating agonizing burning neck pain, burning nerves throughout my upper body, the entire right side of my body always feeling half asleep, radiating pain down my right arm, et cetera. Those are not excuses, they're valid reasons. I suffer night and day in horrible relentless bodily pain, so that everything easily frustrates and irritates me. Plus, I am having to deal with a heavy personal life changing burden right now. Please remember me in your prayers, I sure could use them dear reader.

Since I suffer in constant burning neck pain that radiates, I don't pen pal with anybody on social media, and I rarely read other people's Facebook pages. I don't even want to talk with my own family on the phone. You cannot possibly begin to understand how chronic pain adversely affects one's life, unless you've been there in relentless agonizing pain that never goes away. Although my constant pain has become “the new norm,” it never gets easier.

My first neck surgeon described it by tapping on my knee. He said a few seconds might not bother me, but if he tapped for 5 hours it would, and after feeling neck tension and pain 365.2425 days a year, that would drive anyone crazy! The surgeon was exactly right! I feel overwhelmed right now by everything. And again, I am so sorry for my anger this past week. I don't want to be that guy!

Sometimes in the heat of the battle for truth and righteousness things can become personal for a Bible preacher. It does for every preacher, I don't care who you are. It got personal at times for Pastor Jack Hyles, but he always rebounded in love and forgiveness toward others. He was the first to admit that he didn't always respond in a Christlike manner toward his enemies and critics, but because he was a man pure of heart, he always came out on top for the LORD in the long run. Dr. Hyles wisely taught me to become better, not bitter.

In his sermon titled, "Slippery When Wet." Dr. Hyles said the famous fundamentalist preacher, Pastor J. Frank Norris (1877-1952), died a bitter old man. Dr. Norris and Brother Hyles both went to Heaven at age 74. Life will make anyone bitter if we let it. I refuse to become bitter!!!

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