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. 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 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 ministry websites. He had about 100 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, age 38,
but he is a leader. At a minimum, Pastor Brad was wrong to criticize me
in his office for criticizing him, 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 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 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.
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 pastors; 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?
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
Miss Megan as a mother, for earning her Master's Degree, for her work to
become a talented musician,
being loyal to her husband, et cetera. I disrespect her for wearing
pants as a pastor's wife, but I would never say that to her personally.
Her
husband pushed my buttons in his office on April 30th, which was
supposed to be for marriage counseling, not attacking 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 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 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 to 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 have. We were horribly abused in his office on
April 30th!
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 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 that he should have left alone, because now I have
to address these issues (and I will moving forward).
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 and his father to slander
Pastor Jack Hyles is not only not cool, it really pisses me off! I
won't shut up!
After Pastor Brad verbally attacked me (and Alice) 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.
I love you all dearly. THANK YOU! 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 against your church, and you can blame your two stupid pastors
who don't want to treat people right! Hell will freeze over before I
will allow two neo-evangelical fools to slander Pastor Jack Hyles and
trash out my ministry for 23 years! My ministry has existed TWICE as
long as your church!!! How about some damn respect!!!
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 idiotic 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 at the Lillian Recreational Park in Alabama. I saw right away
that Megan Moffett was wearing sexy looking pants. Pastor Bobby
literally (what a dumbass) approached my car on Sunday morning (June
22nd) in the church parking lot, and told me that I was wrong in my
recent Facebook comments. Bobby said that Miss Megan wasn't wearing
“bluejeans.” Are you kidding me? Is Spandex or tight braziers any
better?
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.
At the church picnic, I very kindly said hello and smiled when I met
Miss Megan (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. Miss Megan 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.
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 means NOTHING to your knucklehead
pastors. Loyalty is a door that swings both ways folks. Get mad at me if
you want, I 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 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
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. Kindly
said, your pastors should be ashamed of themselves.
In Jesus' precious name.
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. 
