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.”
When I first moved from Guam to Pensacola, Florida in July of 2021, I attended the Campus Church on the camp grounds of Pensacola Christian College (PCC). I met the senior pastor my first day there, at their 4th of July picnic. He had seen me aimlessly wandering around, not sure where to fit in. So he came over to guide me to a table. As we walked he asked me a few questions and I informed him kindly that I was sleeping in Wal-Mart's parking lot (a greedy dishonest hotel cancelled my reservation without warning, taking advantage of the holiday weekend and gave away my 30 day reservation to make more money. God will punish them).
Anyway, I saw the startled look on Pastor Redlin's face, as he scurried away quickly lest he be put on the spot to help a fellow hurting brother in Christ. I didn't even know until 15 minutes later that he was the senior pastor of the Campus Church. Albeit, when he avoided helping me and scurried away, I saw a coward that day in him! SHAME on Jeff Redlin. With all the resources at the hands of Pastor Redlin and PCC, during summer months, he easily could have helped my for a few night find housing. Redlin didn't give a damn! First impressions are lasting ones, as they say, and it is very true. I am not impressed one bit with Jeff Redlin, neither as a pastor nor as a man. I know a weasel when I meet one!
In the weeks to follow I was always friendly, kind and respectful toward Pastor Redlin, very much so. But someone (I don't know who) slandered me to him behind my back. Redlin started ignoring me, not returning my emails, and I was hurt by his coldness and lack of God's love. When I told him I had moved 9,000 miles, was alone and divorced, and needed a church family, he didn't give a damn! Because I kept emailing him to see why he was treating me like garbage, he finally said that he and the other pastors had learned about my website ministry, and they noticed that I find “weaknesses” in Bob Jones University's pastors. That made my blood boil as a fundamentalist Bible preacher!
How dare this pathetic little man, Jeff Redlin, the incompetent senior pastor of a massive church of 10,000 people like Campus Church, belittle and critique me as a preacher, because I REBUKE THEM SHARPLY at Bob Jones University and Harvest Baptist Chinch on Guam, for preaching their Devil's lies of Calvinism!!! How dare they!!! What really happened that day was Jeff Redlin was forced to CHOOSE SIDES. Was he going to side with Sean Quinlan who openly bids Godspeed to the Calvinist Bob Jones camp, or was he going to side with THE TRUTH? Redlin choose the Devil's side.
When Pastor Quinlan confronted me in anger at the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam in 2018, he sinfully said: “What they do at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam is none of our business!” Oh how wrong he is friends! OH HO WRONG HE IS!!! Right doctrine matters! What the church or social club or any organization in town is propagating to the local community MATTERS!!! Yes, right doctrine matters!!! I saw several dozen folding chairs at Lighthouse Baptist Church, with the name of Harvest Baptist Church of Guam written on them with permanent marker. Pastor Quinlan even shamefully said to me: “Harvest is our sister church!” This pathetic little wimp for a preacher wasn't contending for the faith as he ought. Pastor Redlin merely dismisses this as a shear “weakness.” No my friend, it is utter wickedness!!!
I did not choose this battle between myself and Pastor Jeff Redlin at Campus Church in Pensacola, he did, when he wrongly accused me of finding “weaknesses” in Calvinist pastors. Dear reader, we all have to choose our battles in life. Sadly, thousands of students, preachers and churches across the world have chosen rather to NOT go to task with Pensacola Christian College (PCC), lest they be rejected, criticized and ostracized by clergy peers and church members. If Jeff Redlin were any kind of a real man, he would contact me (he has both my email and mailing address on file), and apologize for critiquing my ministry. Since he has taken the unpleasant liberty to berate me and put down my ministry for Christ, I feel compelled for the sake of the truth, the Savior and the Gospel to counter his false accusations. RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS! What saith the Scripture? 2nd John 1:11, “ For he that biddeth him God speed is partaker of his evil deeds.”
The truth is that these sinful men in the PCC camp has taken it upon themselves to create a new branch of Christendom that is cowardly, isolated, indifferent and uninterested in stepping on toes, contending for the faith and making enemies (as did the Apostle Paul) by telling THE TRUTH (Galatians 4:16). Well, I am not afraid to make enemies if that is what is required to please God by hating every false way (Psalms 119:104), rebuking false teachers sharply (Titus 1:10-13), refuting every work of darkness (Ephesians 5:11), and strengthening the things that remain which are dying (Revelation 3:2). Revelation 3:2, “Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.” This Bible verse has Pensacola Christian College's name all over it... I HAVE NOT FOUND THY WORKS PERFECT BEFORE GOD!!!
I came to Campus Church seeking their friendship. When I mentioned to Pastor Redlin that I was hoping to find a wife, he scolded me for coming to a big church to find a wife. I rebuked him back for his utter ignorance and cheap shot at myself. Just because I attend church, or come to a big church, doesn't mean that is the ONLY reason I go to church. Sadly, Jeff Redlin is an extremely immature, weirdly intelligent, and uncompassionate man.
The good he does he boats about from the pulpit. He rode his bike one day down to some neighbour's house, because he saw an ambulance pull up with flashing lights, to learn that a man had a stroke. He was boasting about himself from the pulpit, how good of a man he is because he rode his bike down to see what the ambulance was there for. Yet, when I shared my broken life, hurting heart and desire to be his friend with him, he crapped on me. Jeff Redlin treated me like a total piece of garbage!!! SHAME on pastor Jeff Redlin.
Proverbs 20:6, “Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find?” Jeff Redlin is not faithful, he is not consistent in how he treats people! This is not about me getting my feelings my hurt, it is about principle! It is about me being just another human being, admittedly a complete nobody, who was abused by a horrible uncaring pastor. I believe in Word of Mouth. I don't like Campus Church, not as long as Jeff Redlin is their pastor. I truly feel sorry for PCC's thousands of students, who are being influenced by such a shallow, immature, uncaring, self-absorbed and hypocritical man three times a week. When I met Mrs. Redlin, she impressed me, but not her wimpy husband. Folks, it MATTERS HOW WE TREAT PEOPLE!!! RIGHT DOCTRINE MATTERS!!! I care, do you? God cares. 1st Peter 5:7, “Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.”
Anybody who knows me knows that I don't bite me tongue. I used to have a co-worker in Chicago who often said: “Slide down a 30-foor razorblade and land in a puddle of alcohol, but don't mess with Stewart!” My boos said to me one night: “You don't bite your tongue, do you?” No Sir, I speak my mind. I suffer no fools, like Pastor Jeff Redlin, who sinfully bids Godspeed to the Calvinist pastors in the Bob Jones University camp. What right does he have to criticize me for exposing them as God commands me to do in the Bible? He has none!!! GET RIGHT WITH GOD JEFF REDLIN AND SEAN QUINLAN, AND THE PCC CAMP!
When I attended the Harvest Baptist Church on Guam for a year in 2014, I prayed at Wednesday night Bible study with other men in the church. One of the man operated their radio station (KHMG 88.1 FM in Micronesia). Well, I was amazed to meet that man at Campus Church when I moved to Pensacola in July of 2021. I won't mention his name. We bonded as friends right away. He is a good man, and I am not criticizing him. Well, as it turns out, his son is now running the radio station at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam! Harvest is a cesspool of BJU alumni, who are avid supporters of Pastor John MacArthur!!!
Do you see where I am going with this? Whatever happened to “Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,” (2nd Corinthians 6:17)? Why does PCC bid Godspeed to the Calvinist BJU camp, and then make lame excuses that it is not their business what goes on at BJU and their affiliated churches? Folks, this is as wicked as Hell!!! We've lost our ecclesiastical separation in our nation! Dr. Steve Pettit (president of BJU since 2014) shamefully preaches the SAME Lordship gospel as Seventh-Day Adventist prophetess' Miss Ellen G. White! This is NOT the Gospel, not even in the ballpark. There are not variations of the Gospel. Galatians 1:6-9 teaches that there is ONLY ONE Gospel, not two. Any other gospel is accursed by God.
1st Corinthians 15:1-4 clearly defines THE GOSPEL for us:
1st Corinthians 15:1-4, “Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand; By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in vain. For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;: And that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures:”
Jesus is the Christ, the only begotten Son of God (John 20:31), Who DIED on the cross for our sins, was BURIED, and three days later He bodily RESURRECTED from the dead. THIS IS THE GOSPEL (i.e., the GOOD NEWS) by which we are saved, if WE BELIEVE IT!!!
Now look at what Steve Pettit preaches! Look at what Ray Comfort preaches! Look at what John MacArthur preaches! Now you tell me, is that THE SAME free grace Gospel as taught in 1st Corinthians 15:1-4? No, it is not, not even close dear friend. We have a duty from God to cry aloud and REBUKE THEM SHARPLY, who preach another gospel, lest tens of thousands of souls burn in Hell forever because they trusted in a counterfeit plan of salvation (Matthew 7:21-23; Luke 13:23-24; Galatians 6:7). But what did Jesus teach? John 6:28-29, “Then said they unto him, What shall we do, that we might work the works of God? Jesus answered and said unto them, This is the work of God, that ye believe on him whom he hath sent.”
And so, in closing dear reader, may I humbly say as a redeemed child of God, that I do not merely find “weaknesses” in preachers; but rather, as God commands in Titus 1:10-13, I am faithfully REBUKING THEM SHARPLY that subvert whole households with a perverse gospel of Calvinism (aka, Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance).
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