I love the people of Family Baptist Church and always will. I love
Dickey and his wife Miss Charlotte, they have always been good to me.
Brother Ron often gave me big bear hugs, and I love that man dearly! I
had been living out of a suitcase at a cheap motel when I moved to
Pensacola, but Carlton helped me out when I first moved to Pensacola by
letting me rent a place for a very reasonable price from him for a year.
I love that man dearly like my own brother. Miss Robin is also my good
friend, with whom we swap photos of our flower gardens. I will miss
Brother Kevin's friendly handshakes, and his wife Miss Wendy. We
appreciate Brother Keith always holding the door open for us. We love
Mary, whom I gave $95 to for her 95th birthday, is my good friend. I
will miss Kathy, who always sits next to Mary, who is also my good
friend. I love Brother Jimmy, whose piano playing is the best. He gave
me one of his piano albums, which is precious to me. There are too many
names to mention. I cherish Miss Lucretia, a dear blind lady who has
been my best friend at church since 2021. And then there's Bill and Miss
Madelyn whom I love. And so many others.
Here is what happened. I had often been asked by various church members
over the years when I was going to “join” Family Baptist Church. I had
often thought about it, but never followed through. By God's grace and
much prayer, my former x-wife Alice decided in 2025 to return to me and
get remarried. We were originally married in 1987, divorced 19 years
later in 2006, and then after 19 years remarried in 2025. We never dated
or remarried anyone else. Amen! God is faithful and good! Jesus makes
the difference!
On April 27th, 2025, I approached Pastor Brad Moffett after the Sunday
morning service and I kindly asked him if he would do us the honor of
marrying me and my x-wife Alice (who was arriving the next day by plane
in Pensacola from Rockford, Illinois); and I also said to Pastor Brad
that me and Alice wanted to do this the right way, by joining Family
Baptist Church if they would have us. He said that he first needed to
meet my x-wife and counsel with both of us, and said that he would be
glad to do the wedding, for which we were very grateful.
Pastor Brad asked me to call him the next day, which I did, and he said
for me and Alice to meet him for marriage counseling on Wednesday, April
30th. We were delighted and both arrived at the church at 9:35 am for
our 10 am appointment with the pastor. When Pastor Brad invited us into
his office, he started talking about my website ministry. We were caught
off guard, because he had invited us to come for marriage counseling,
not to talk about my website ministry. He had several dozen pages of my
websites printed out, sitting on his desk. He said he needed to talk to
me about some issues before we could be considered for church
membership, but we had been led to believe that we were coming in for
marriage counseling.
That being said, we were complicit and wanted to go along with the
pastor's wishes. He mentioned numerous issues. One was my preaching
against Pensacola Christian College (PCC), for which I make no
apologies. They woefully lack love for people at PCC, and
they are wrong
on repentance. Pastor Brad then mentioned a quote online, that I had
made in 2019 (2 years before moving to Pensacola), which was critical of
PCC, and he asked me why I even bothered to go to PCC's Campus Church if
I thought that they were corrupt. I truthfully told him that I was just
curious and wanted to see firsthand for myself what the place was like.
Is that so bad?
Then Pastor Brad criticized my preaching that the government should
execute homosexuals. He said that we live in the age of grace, where
homosexuals should no longer be punished. He cited Romans chapter one,
where God gave them over to their sins, which he says proves that God
doesn't want them executed. I humbly disagreed with Pastor Brad. Just as
murder, pedophilia, rape and other crimes are worthy of the death
penalty, so also does the Holy Bible include homosexuality (Leviticus
20:13).
Then he wrongly accused me of taking God's name in vain in my website
article where I call them “God damned reprobates” at Bob Jones
University for preaching the
Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation. I kindly told pastor Brad that
Galatians 1:6-9 says anyone is cursed by God (which is what God damned
means) who preaches another gospel. He said it didn't matter, because
people think I am swearing. I humbly disagreed with him.
Then he quoted a comment that I had made, saying that anyone who
support's Ken Ham's Answers-In-Genesis ministry is a fool and an idiot.
He said that he supports Ken Ham and asked me if I think he is “a fool
and an idiot.” I respectfully but honestly told him, yes I do, because
Ken Ham preaches the Devil's lie
of Lordship Salvation. Pastor Brad replied by shamefully saying that
he hasn't looked into what Ken Ham believes, which blew my mind. Is this
the kind of pastor that we want? Why is he promoting a man's materials
that he hasn't even researched to see what he believes about salvation?
Folks, right doctrine matters! I know Pastor Brad is younger, but he is a leader. At a minimum, Pastor Brad was wrong to criticize me
in his office for criticizing him for promoting Ken Ham, when as a pastor he doesn't even know
what Ken Ham believes, AND I DO!
Then he saved the biggest issue to confront me about for last. He held
up an article I had written back in 2019 titled, “Why
A Christian Lady Ought Not Wear Pants.” He was upset, mentioning
that both his wife and mother wear pants. Now, folks, anyone at Family
Baptist Church who knows me fully knows that I have never been anything
other than a complete gentleman at church (as I am everywhere I go). I
have never, nor would I ever, mention anything to a woman about her
wearing pants. It is not my place to condemn anyone. My eight ministry
websites, Facebook page and eight blogs are my pulpit from which I
preach my biblical beliefs and convictions. Outside of my pulpit, I am a
struggling sinner just like everybody else, and it is not my place to
judge anyone.
I am a thankful
graduate of Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993). I finished Bible
college in 1993,
graduating with honors on the Dean's List and a degree in Pastoral Theology, with
Pastor Jack Hyles' signature on it, of which I am very humbly proud
in the Lord. I love Dr. Hyles!!! He is my hero of the faith. By the way,
both me and my wife Alice were saved under Pastor Jack Hyles' ministry.
Alice was saved in 1975 on one of their First Baptist Church of Hammond,
Indiana, buses which came to Chicago; and I was saved in 1980 in Chicago
under the preaching of a pastor who is a graduate of Hyles-Anderson
College. So,
Brother Hyles is our hero!
As Pastor Brad continued to talk on the issue of women and pants, he
mentioned a quote from
my
article made by Pastor Hyles, in which he said: “I don't have a
dirty mind, I have a man's mind.” What Dr. Hyles said is absolutely 100%
true! However, Pastor Brad Moffett wrongly accused Dr. Hyles of having a
carnal filthy mind, and said that he himself (Pastor Brad) is not
tempted to lust when he sees a woman wearing pants. It was clear to me
and Alice that he was defending his wife and mother wearing pants. No
reasonable pastor would say what he just did.
I told him that men and women are wired differently. He asked me for a
biblical reference to support my claim. I told him that any doctor,
biologist, psychiatrist or honest person would agree that men and women
are wired differently regarding how we think toward the oppossite sex.
He strongly disagreed. Then he slandered Pastor Hyles, by saying that
Dr. Hyles taught some things in his preaching on “sex and marriage” that
caused hundreds of families and marriages to fail, to go into sexual
immorality and shame. Me and Alice were horrified! We had been invited
for marriage counseling, but Pastor Brad was upset over my website
ministry, over some of the things that I preach about. If this is what
is required to join a church, you can count us out!!!
I have always held the strong belief that my ministry is my ministry,
and their ministry at Family Baptist Church is their ministry, and the
two shouldn't meet. In all the years that I gladly attended the church,
I kept my mouth shut when I disagreed with the pastor and his father; even though on
my own ministry webpages, blogs and Facebook page I speak my mind, but
not once did I ever mention Family Baptist Church nor their pastors by
name. This is America, where people have a right to express their
thoughts and feelings. Right? It's creepy that church members are
scrutinizing my social media to find things that they can run back to
tell their pastor. That is what they do in communist North Korea!
I literally had to apologize to Alice in the meeting on April 30th,
because Pastor Brad was delving into sexual issues, falsely accusing
Pastor Hyles of destroying marriages with unbiblical teachings on sex
and marriage, all in a sinful attempt to justify his wife and mother
wearing pants. Please keep in mind that I NEVER once made an issue of
anyone in the church wearing pants. To be totally honest, I couldn't
care less who wears pants in the church. I admire
the pastor's wife as a mother, for earning her Master's Degree, for her work to
become a talented musician,
being loyal to her husband, et cetera. But I disrespect her for wearing
pants as a pastor's wife, but I would never say that to her personally,
because what she wears is not my business.
Her
husband pushed my buttons in his office on April 30th, which was
supposed to be for marriage counseling, not censuring my website
ministry. What the hell is wrong with him?
I directly asked Pastor Brad to tell us in his office what “unbiblical
teachings” he was talking about when he slandered
Dr. Jack Hyles. Pastor Brad said, “I don't want to get into that
here.” Wait a minute Buster! You just slandered our hero of the
Christian faith, accusing him of ruining hundreds of marriages, and now
you refuse to tell us what you are talking about? I hope some of the
church members reading this can understand why I and Alice are very hurt
and upset with Pastor Brad.
I had kindly asked Pastor Brad to perform our wedding, which he
scheduled to do for us on Friday, May 2nd at 10 am in his church office.
Can you imagine how we felt, after the horrible things he had just said
to us on Wednesday? Anyone who doesn't understand why we are hurt and
offended is either a very dishonest person and you just don't care, you're
just going to stand behind your pastor no matter how horrible and wrong
he is; or else you empathize with our pain and feelings, understanding
why we are hurt. In all the 45 months I have known Pastor Brad and his
family, I have never (nor would I ever) say such unkind things to them. It was
very inappropriate what was brought up and said in his office on April
30th. Pastor Brad simply took things too far.
Pastor Brad said on April 30th that he was concerned about making me a
voting member of the church. I told him that I had absolutely no
interest in voting on anything, I just wanted me and Alice to officially be part of the church
family. I was tired of people asking me when I was going to “join.”
Sadly, Pastor Brad said to us, “We make it hard to join, but easy to
leave.” It should never be hard for a born again child of God to join a
local church. We wanted to feel like we belonged, that's all.
My wife is right. She said Pastor Brad allowed his fear of making me a
member to cause him to go way overboard. Unfortunately, actor Bill Cosby
is right that our words are like bullets, once spoken they can't be
taken back. We felt disgusted after learning what Pastor Brad thinks
about Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001), our hero of the faith. Pastor Brad
was only 13 years old when Pastor Hyles went to Heaven in 2001. So what
the hell does he know? If Pastor Brad had done to other members of the church
what he did to me and Alice, I seriously doubt if they would have taken
it any better than we did. We were horribly mistreated in his office on
April 30th!
Pastor Brad even admitted to me and Alice in his office, that he had
expected me to get angry and “storm out” of his office in that
confrontational meeting. Why would you deliberately mistreat someone
like that, if you knew beforehand that what you were saying would likely
greatly upset them? Pastor Brad is wrong to put himself in God's place.
And for the record, I didn't storm out, I sat there in bewilderment and
cried when it was over, telling Brad that I loved him as my pastor. He
really mistreated us that day! And just to be clear, he hasn't
apologized to us for anything yet.
At the end of the meeting, I broke down in tears and told Pastor Brad
that I loved him as my pastor, and I do. But he took things way too far
in his office that wretched day, slandering Dr. Hyles horribly, trying
to convince us that a Spirit-filled man won't lust upon a woman who is
dressed immodestly; so he says that it shouldn't be an issue if women
wear immodest clothing in public. That is crazy talk. Pastor Brad said
that he doesn't lust upon women wearing pants, so he sees nothing wrong
with women wearing pants. He insisted that I provide a biblical
reference that says women shouldn't wear pants. 1st Timothy 2:9 is all I
need to prove him very wrong. Folks, we went in for marriage counseling.
What happened?
When we left the meeting we were hurt, angry and shocked. But our love
for each other, about to be remarried after 19 years of being apart,
superseded any animosity that we felt toward Pastor Brad. We met with
Pastor Brad on Friday for marriage counseling, and then were married. No
one mentioned anything that was said on Wednesday, two days before. We
went straight to the government building downtown to obtain our official
marriage license, which we took home with us for the first time (Alice
stayed in a hotel until we got remarried). She is a darn great wife!
She's been writing out chapters of the Bible each day in her devotions.
I am not worthy of her love!
We do very much appreciate Pastor Brad doing our wedding, which I will
always appreciate, and I have zero regret kindly asking him do it.
Albeit, that is all separate from what has happened in this other
matter. As Rambo rightly said: “They drew first blood!” I didn't pick
this fight, they did. I have tried numerous times to let the matter go,
but Pastor Brad attacked my integrity as a fundamentalist Baptist
preacher in his office on April 30th. Pastor Brad told us in his office,
“I am not a fundamentalist!” Sadly, then he is a new evangelical, like
his father. That is not cool.
The fact that Pastor Brad challenged my convictions in his office about
women's modesty, and said that he doesn't believe the King James Bible is
inspired, and said that among modern revisions he favors the
Modern English Version (MEV), and he criticized my preaching against
the Lordship Salvation which is being
taught at PCC and
BJU, and he criticized my preaching against BJU's use of the Devil's
corrupt Bibles, and he trashed out our hero Dr. Jack Hyles—all compelled
me over the past several weeks to vehemently PREACH THE TRUTH, and I
humbly admit that I have been pretty angry AS A FUNDAMENTALIST BIBLE
PREACHER! I love Pastor Brad and his family, but he opened a big can of
worms in his office which he should have left alone, because now I have
to address these issues (and I will moving forward). Brad ruffled our
feathers.
If Pastor Brad had just lovingly said that because of our ministerial
differences, although he hopes we will continue to attend Family Baptist
Church, he doesn't think it would be a good idea for us to join, we
would have understood and respected his wisdom. There would have been no
problem. But for Pastor Brad to slander
Pastor Jack Hyles is not only not cool, it really hurt our feelings. I
won't shut up!
After Pastor Brad censured me in his office because of my website
ministry, the storm began. As the weeks passed I started preaching hard
on social media against women wearing pants, not backing down from my
biblical position. It is no secret that several members of the Family
Baptist Church in Pensacola read my
Facebook posts,
blogs and
websites.
By God's grace, I have 8 blogs and 8
websites. I have been a busy beaver since April of 2002 when the Lord
put the desire into my heart to start a website ministry. Philippians
2:13, “For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his
good pleasure.”
Although I never mentioned anybody's name, nor the name of the church
(nor would I have ever done so while attending the church), someone read
my comments on Facebook and told the pastors, and they kicked me and
Alice out. When me and Alice arrived at church on Sunday, June 22nd,
2025, Pastor Bobby Moffett (Brad's father) approached our vehicle and
said we were not welcome anymore at Family Baptist Church. That is not
the Christian way to treat people!
Since numerous issues had been addressed in Pastor Brad's office weeks
before, I kindly asked Bobby why we are not welcome at the church. He
refused to answer. Since I had made recent comments on Facebook, I asked
if it was about my comments on Facebook. Like the smart ass jerk that he
shamefully so often is at church, he said, “There it is,” with a damn
silly smirk on his face, which pissed me off. I'm just getting started
preaching and you can blame your two pastors
who don't want to treat people right! Hell will freeze over before I
will allow a neo-evangelical pastor to slander Pastor Jack Hyles and
censure my ministry for 23 years! My ministry has existed TWICE as long
as your church!!!
It shouldn't be “hard” for anyone who is a redeemed child of God to join
a local Baptist church. No wonder your church hasn't grown in 12
years!!! That is insane! Your pastor has a very wrong attitude toward
accepting new members. Your church is behaving like a cult, not a New
Testament church patterned after the church in the book of Acts. When
3,000 people got saved on the Day of Pentecost, they were ALL added to
the church that very same day! No one was interrogated by the disciples
like this is fascist Nazi-Germany or Communist North Korea. I hope
someone agrees with me how wrong your pastors are being. All me and
Alice wanted was to humbly join your church! Your pastor went psycho on
us.
Now, I have no choice but to address the numerous issues as a
fundamentalist Bible preacher. Your pastors started a fight that I very
much did not want to have. I brought my wife Alice to your Memorial Day
picnic. We saw right away
that the pastor's wife was wearing pants. In my humble opinion as a
Christian man she was wearing immodest attire. Shame on
any pastor who defends pants on women. The low standards of the heathen world has no place in the
church! In the year 1900 there would have been absolutely no debate over
this issue, because all women wore dresses back then. We still had a
sense of decency and high moral values in America society. Get mad at
me if you want, God is on my side in this matter of modesty.
Please understand folks, they started this fight, not me. I couldn't
care less if the pastor's wife wears pants, because it's none of my damn
business, but when your pastor scolds me in front of my wife in his
office for preaching against women wearing pants on MY MINISTRY WEBSITE,
that is a whole different ballgame! They messed with me, I didn't mess
with them. I have learned painfully from this ordeal that
neo-evangelicals and fundamentalists just don't get along, and they
never will. Me and Alice are grateful fundamentalist, Bible-believing,
Baptist, born again Christians!!!
At the church picnic, I very kindly said hello and smiled when I met
the pastor's wife. I would NEVER express any disapproval of
the way anybody is dressed, because it is not my place to make that
call. Me and Alice sat down at the end picnic table, with a dozen
children in front of us. Pastor Brad was about 75 feet away still
cooking food on the grill. The pastor's wife walked right in front of us and
said, “I like your shorts” to a young girl, and then she walked away
after a few seconds. Both me and my wife knew exactly what she was
doing, messing with the preacher! If you think what she did was mere
coincidence, you are a fool. Granted, only God and the pastor's wife
know the truth.
Yet, I still didn't mention any names nor the name of the church on my
Facebook page in my posts. I have every right to be angry about this
crap! Me and Alice came in for marriage counseling on April 30th, not to
be mistreated and have our hero Pastor Jack Hyles slandered, and then
have my website ministry thrown under the bus. If you want respect, you
must give respect!!!
God knows that I always showed courtesy, respect and love for everyone
at Family Baptist Church, which seems to mean NOTHING to your
knucklehead
pastors. Loyalty is a door that swings both ways folks. Get mad at me if
you want, we did the right thing. We didn't choose this fight, it came to
us. What absolutely blows our minds away is that this whole nightmare
started by me kindly asking Pastor Brad if me and Alice could join
Family Baptist Church (if they would have us), to start our remarriage
off the right way. What the hell is wrong with the leadership at Family
Baptist Church in Pensacola?
God knows that I never caused any problems at church. I was always a
complete gentleman. I voluntarily emptied the garbage pails at all big
church events. I brought 4 cases of soda for the Community Day event in
April this year. I took a bunch of photos. At the church's Halloween
Event last year, I bought boxes of battery lighted wrist bands,
necklaces and toys to freely give the kids, for their safety so that
cars could see them better, and the kids love stuff that lights up. I
invested in my church family. Each year at the revivals, I always
purchased multiple music albums from the tour groups, to help pay for
their travel expenses, and then I gave the music away to others. God
sees all the hundreds of little things that I did to help the church.
Yet, it all means absolutely nothing to your pastors, who only see what
they want to see!
I never once failed to tithe when the offering plate passed in front of
me. I loved the people around me and gave them gifts that I purchased
with my own money, to show them God's love. You couldn't ask for a
better church member. Yet, I was just a visitor for the 45 months that I
attended Family Baptist Church, and I was fine with that. Of all the
times that the church members went out to eat together after the
service, no one ever invited me. I never once complained about anything.
I just ate the flesh and left the bones. That is to say, I took the good
and left the bad. I am a happy person and live on the sunny side of life
in Christ. I didn't mess with Pastor Brad, he messed with my preaching.
I had always addressed the pastors as: "Pastor Brad” And “Pastor Bobby,”
showing them due respect. Yet, the first time I brought Alice to Family
Baptist Church on May 4th, 2025, we were horribly mistreated by Pastor
Bobby. I was excited to introduce Alice to all my friends at the church.
When we met Pastor Bobby at the front door, he started talking with us.
At one particular moment he was talking with Alice, and I simply added a
kind comment, because that's what a conversation is between multiple
people. Me and Alice are a team as a married couple. Bobby harshly
snapped at me in a firm tone, saying: “I wasn't talking to you, I was
talking to her.” That was very rude and disrespectful. The pastors of
Family Baptist Church do not reciprocate my respect for them, they
disrespect me. The man next to me even looked surprised by what Bobby
had done. My feelings were hurt. Yet, a couple weeks later when Pastor
Brad went to Arkansas and his Dad preached, I brought Alice to here
Pastor Bobby, because I love the guy, but he is a mean jerk so often,
showing total disregard for the feelings of others. That is not the
Lord's way.
In 2023, Pastor Bobby had been showing 'The Chosen' for a few months.
Miss Lucretia (my dear blind friend) told me about the series and I
finally decided to come see it. I stopped at Walmart and bought a few
big boxes of white cheddar popcorn for everyone at church. When I got to
church, Pastor Bobby made a spectacle of me, telling everyone present
what an idiot I was to bring popcorn for everyone when the series ended
the week before. I went along with his insult and just said, “I was
saving the money” and everyone laughed. But that was the last time I
ever went to one of Bobby's Wednesday evening Bible talks, because he
disrespected me as a human being. He had no right to make a spectacle of
me, as if I were a small child. You don't treat a 56 year old man like
that! Bobby never said he was just joking, he never thanked me for
bringing the popcorn, he never thanked me for
coming, he never said he hoped that I would come back; he horribly
embarrassed me in front of the church. Bobby is a Smart Alecky guy who
is insensitive to the feelings of others! That does not bode well for a
pastor.
I don't know what else to say, there you have it. That is what happened.
I love you all at Family Baptist Church and I am very sorry about all
this. I am doing what I think is right in this matter, with God my
Savior as my witness. The members of Family Baptist Church support the
things that your pastors say and do, so you are accountable for them. I
won't be bullied by two new evangelical pastors! Psalms 118:6, “The
LORD is on my side; I will not fear: what can man do unto me?”
Again, all me and Alice wanted was to join the church, which ultimately
led your pastors to decide that we are no longer welcomed there. We can
move forward with perfect peace in the Lord, knowing that it was THEIR
cruel decision to kick us out. We didn't want to leave. We tried to
join but your foolish pastors chose to treat us like CIA recruits,
interrogating us like criminals, which is insane. Kindly
said, your pastors should be greatly ashamed of themselves. God will
deal with them, as they have dealt mercilessly with us
(Matthew 7:1-5). They stabbed us in the heart and back, so that we
simply don't trust them anymore. This is all so unfortunate. Thank you
for reading.
In Jesus' precious name.
Update from July 5th, 2025...
Me and Alice went to Home Depot on the 4th of
July. Of all people, we ran into Pastor Brad Moffett. We actually shook
hands, because we still respect one another on a personal level. God knows
that I love Pastor Brad and his family. Throughout my years of website
ministry since 2002, by God's grace, I have been able to separate my
personal feelings from my stand as a fundamentalist Bible preacher.
The pastor kindly expressed concerns over
many comments that I made on social media. I want to be honest and fair, as
a fundamentalist Bible preacher, so yesterday I revisited all my writings
and edited a few things, just to make sure that I am indeed being honest and
fair in what I say. I stand behind my words as a preacher, come what may.
Pastor Brad said that he wanted to have 3 or
4 other men, and himself, meet with me next week at the church so that they
could confront me over the things I have written online. It didn't take me
more than a few seconds to realize that he was inviting me to an ambush.
When I kindly declined his offer, he reduced the number of men attending to
himself and one other. I don't think so!
Pastor Brad hypocritically said at Home Depot
that he wanted to do things "the Bible way" based on Matthew 18. But
unfortunately, Brad in fact DIDN'T do things "the Bible way" to begin with,
by kicking us out of Family Baptist Church on June 22nd, 2025. They stabbed
us in the back!!! They've lost our trust, plain and simple.
You don't kick a married couple out of your
church, which is the heathen way; and then invite them back weeks later to
follow Matthew 18:16 (to bring two or more witnesses), bypassing Matthew
18:15, “Moreover if thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him
his fault between thee and him alone: if he shall hear thee, thou
hast gained thy brother.” Do you see that? ...BETWEEN THEE AND HIM
ALONE!!! If Pastor Brad had done "the Bible way" in the first place, he
would have come to me ALONE to discuss this matter, not kick us out of the
church and then weeks later try to sucker me into a lynch mob meeting with a
group of angry men. This is typical of Family Baptist Church (in my humble
opinion), to do things THEIR WAY instead of GOD'S WAY.
They stabbed us in the back, and now we
simply don't trust them anymore. I say this to their utter shame!
I also want to comment about something
horrible that Pastor Brad said at Home Depot. He said due to the issues I
experienced at former churches that I attended, they were all wondering when
Family Baptist Church would be next. I think that is a disgraceful attitude
and terrible thing to say. For the 45 months that I chose to attend their
church, no one in church leadership ever tried to learn my story.
They never asked for my contact information.
No one ever invited me to anything. No one ever said they were glad I came
and looked forward to me coming back to church the next week. For the entire
time that I attended their church, I knew in my heart that I could just
leave and never come back and they couldn't have cared less, and God knows
that is the simple truth of the matter.
Pastor Brad revealed at Home Depot why they
gave me the cold shoulder for all those 45 months at their church. It was
because they were sinfully holding a grudge against me because of my website
ministry. Instead of getting to know me on a personal level, and make me
feel wanted and welcomed at Family Baptist Church, they avoided me like
COVID-19 and the Bubonic Plague. I think that is shameful.
The sad truth is that in their hearts, they
kicked me out of Family Baptist Church in October of 2021 when I started
attending, and it was obvious all those years that I meant absolutely
nothing to them. For that, they must give account to God alone. They never
gave me a chance. I had already been kicked out of PCC's Campus Church, and
I really wanted things to work out at Family Baptist Church.
That is why I stayed quiet, as a good little
boy, for those 45 months. But as Kenny Rogers sings in his 1979 iconic song
titled: "Coward Of The County"..."And papa, I sure hope you understand:
Sometimes you gotta fight when you're a man." We didn't pick this fight, it
came to us. When Pastor Brad censured my Bible preaching against women
wearing pants, and slandered Pastor Jack Hyles (falsely accusing him of
ruining hundreds of families with corrupt teachings), the fundamentalist
Bible preacher in me couldn't remain silent anymore.
Furthermore, to understand WHY I had issues
with those former churches, you need to examine each church individually to
understand the context. At the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, they were
preaching the Devil's lie of Lordship Salvation. They were using dozens of
different modern corrupt Bible revisions. They were a house divided and
confused. Yet, they wickedly accused me of causing confusion and
divisiveness for sharing books (which I purchased with my own money) to help
their pastors. I gave them "NIV: The Antichrist's Bible" by Pastor Al Lacy.
I gave them "I Never Knew You" by Michael P. Bowen. I gave them "Martin
Luther: Master of Deceit" by Pastor Max D. Younce. I gave them "Somebody's
Got To Milk The Cows" by Pastor Jack Hyles. For sharing these books with
Marty Herron, their senior pastor, I was called into the church office and
reprimanded. They forced me out of Harvest. At that time in my life I was
still recovering from a painful divorce and my life was a train wreck. So,
in desperation, after losing my church family, I pleaded with Pastor Herron
to please allow me to return to my church family. It was a bad decision on
my part, but I was a truly broken man with no church family. Herron was a
monster and told me to "Go elsewhere." For the next 7 years I didn't go to
any church because of him. So, they kicked me out, I didn't reject them.
They were serving the Devil, doing things THEIR OWN WAY instead of GOD'S
WAY, just like Family Baptist Church.
That being said, for the 45 months that I
attended Family Baptist Church in Pensacola, God and the church members know
that I never caused any trouble. I never spoke once against the pastor
behind his back. I didn't want to get kicked out of another church, so I
stayed quiet. It wasn't until April 30th, 2025, when Pastor Brad horribly
censured my website ministry, and wickedly slandered Pastor Jack Hyles in
his office in front of me and Alice, that in my frustration I started making
some comments on Facebook (without mentioning any names). But some church
member read my comments and recognized who I was talking about on Facebook,
and ran to gossip to their pastor, which compelled Pastor Brad to kick us
out of church without even bothering to talk to me, like communist North
Korea. The cards were stacked against me from day one at their church,
because they were holding a grudge against me because of my faithful website
ministry. I have been faithful since April of 2002 (when Brad was only 14
years old), to PREACH THE TRUTH on social media. I make no apologies for
being right!
And regarding the issues I experience at
Campus Church at Pensacola Christian College, they preach the Devil's lie of
Lordship Salvation, sinfully requiring lost sinners to pray, "I repent of my
sins. I realize that sin is something that God hates and I no longer want to
hold onto sinful bad habits in my life” and "to follow and obey God's will
instead of your self-serving sins." That is discipleship, NOT the Gospel of
free grace taught in the inspired Holy Bible. They have incompetent pastors
at PCC.
I contacted Pastor Jeff Redlin about this
matter and he disagreed with me, upholding (in his sinful pride) PCC's false
plan of salvation. On August 2, 2022, Pastor Redlin sinfully emailed me to
let me know I am banned from attending Campus Church. Pastor Brad Moffett is
so wrong to try to turn this all around to blame me, as if I cannot get
along with anybody. That is not what is happening! The truth is that I have
been faithful to “earnestly contend for the faith which was once
delivered unto the saints..” (Jude 1:3b), and I am being persecuted for
it (2nd Timothy 3:12).
They horribly stabbed us in the back at
Family Baptist Church. It would be no different than if a passenger in your
car made a comment that offended you as the driver, so you pull over along
the highway shoulder to kick him out of your vehicle; and then a couple
weeks later you invite him for another ride in your car to talk about the
matter. He'd vehemently refuse your offer, because he wouldn't trust you
anymore.
Kindly said, Pastor Brad failed to do things
"the Bible way" in the first place, and now people are upset, and we don't
trust them anymore, understandably. This is what happens when pastors make
hasty decisions to throw people out of their church. It's not God's church,
because this is not how the Lord does things. The pastor should have talked
to me alone, before deciding to punish me and Alice by kicking us out of our
church family, which was cruel.
The sad truth (in our humble estimation) is
that Pastor Brad couldn't care less about me and Alice, nor does he want us
in his church, he just wants me to remove my comments about him and the
church from social media. That is not God's love. Brad doesn't want to
resolve anything, he just wants to roast us and defend his wrong attitude
and false teachings. God sees all this.
A young Christian lady wrote a truthful
negative review about Pensacola Christian College (PCC) years ago. She
graduated from their horrible school. She said that at PCC the system always
comes first, but individual people do not matter. I learned firsthand at PCC
that her words are absolutely THE TRUTH. That is exactly how me and Alice
feel about Family Baptist Church. They are only concerned about the name of
their institution, but we as individual people do not matter one bit to
them. Although they no doubt would deny such a claim, their actions speak
much louder than their words.
What a sad thing to only say now, after
you've pulled the trigger to shoot us in the heart and back, that you want
to do things "the Bible way." The biblical thing for me and Alice to do at
this point is to avoid Family Baptist Church. Romans 16:17-18, “Now I
beseech you, brethren, mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary
to the doctrine which ye have learned; and avoid them. For they that are
such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words
and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.”
I moved from the island of Guam (where I had lived for 17 years) to
Pensacola, Florida in July of 2021. A few months later in October, I
began attending the Family Baptist Church at 5454 W. Mobile Highway in
Pensacola from 2021 to 2025. 
