Satan Has Crept Into Most Baptist Churches Today

Galatians 3:1-2, “O foolish Galatians, who hath bewitched you, that ye should not obey the truth, before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you? This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?”

This morning I got to thinking about how Satan has crept into most Baptist churches today. To prove my suspicion, I typed “Baptist church Statement of Faith” into Duckduckgo's search engine just to see what would come up. Since I live in Pensacola, it didn't surprise me that the Statement of Faith for the First Baptist Church of Pensacola came up, which reads:

Salvation

Since all persons are separated from God by sin and are in need of forgiveness, God offers the free gift of salvation. Each person must individually accept this gift, repent of sin, and place faith in Jesus Christ as Savior and Lord. [emphasis added] SOURCE

Dear reader, what you have just read is a gross perversion of God's simple plan of salvation. I have attended their church a dozen times over the past few years. I enjoy going to their Christmas cantata each year, to hear all the beautiful music, children singing and lighting of candles. The church was founded in 1848 and is the oldest church in Pensacola. They do much good to help the needy in the community, but sadly are wrong on the Gospel (the most important thing). I have sat in both their contemporary and traditional services. Pastor Dave Snyder (who came to the church in 2018 from Missouri as their senior pastor) preaches hard core Lordship Salvation and misunderstood repentance. It is heart breaking.

On one particular Sunday a couple years ago, at the end of the contemporary service, Pastor Snyder announced that a 12 year old boy had been saved that morning by “becoming a Christ follower.” Folks, that is not the free grace Gospel that saves!!! Judas Iscariot followed Christ as one of His very apostles and yet is burning in Hell forever. You get saved by resting completely in Christ's death on the cross, burial and physical resurrection from the dead three days later. That is the only “gospel” according to 1st Corinthians 15:1-6, not becoming a Christ follower.

I was mailed a letter from the First Baptist Church of Pensacola in 2022, an official invitation to attend their Discovery Class with other prospective new members. I went to the class because I was curiosity to find out exactly what they believe about salvation, and also to be a gentleman since they cordially invited me. At the meeting one of their associate pastors told us that the church believes in salvation through faith alone in Jesus Christ. I was so delighted to hear that. There was no mention of turning from your sinful bad habits, following Christ, surrendering all or anything else to get to Heaven, just BELIEVE THE GOSPEL.

I didn't join at that time, but was thinking about it. I needed to investigate further to make sure I knew where I was leaping before I jumped. But, to my horror, when I attended their traditional service the next week, Pastor Snyder said you couldn't go to Heaven without surrendering to the absolute Lordship of Christ, and he said you must forsake your sinful past and live a changed life. I was so sad in the pew. I just put my head down and felt like crying. Not another heretic in the pulpit! Yes, sad to say, Pastor Dave Snyder is a damnable false teacher!

Oh dear reader, the accuracy of the Gospel is of paramount importance. What you believe will determine where you spend eternity. So, it is not a small matter to dismiss.

Satan's Greatest Weapon is to Con People into Living the Christian Life Without Ever Being Born Again

In Matthew 7:21-23, we read a disturbing true story about a group of people who dedicated their lives to following and serving Jesus Christ. They boasted at the judgment of having done “many wonderful works” in Jesus' name. They had prophesied (preached) in Jesus' name. They had even cast out devils in Jesus' name. Judas Iscariot had the power to cast out devils, but was unsaved (Matthew 10:1). By all outward indication these false prophets in Matthew 7:21-23 were redeemed saints, but Jesus denied knowing them as His sheep, citing the reason why in verse 21, “Not every one that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.”

The best way to interpret the Scripture is by using the Scripture. John 6:40, “And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.” The Father's will is that you and I believe on the name of His only begotten Son (which includes accepting His death on the cross for our sins, burial and bodily resurrection the third day), and that is how anyone gets saved. There is no other way to Heaven (Acts 4:10-12).

I heard a great sermon today from 1956 by Pastor Jack Hyles, when he was just 29 years old. The sermon is titled: 'Three Types Of leaven.' I made this an excerpt from the sermon and titled it: “Get Born Again Or Go To Hell.” Dear reader, the Devil is more subtle, dangerous and crafty than you or I could ever imagine (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4, 11:13-15). I found this meme today and it is correct. ...

I have met numerous incompetent Baptist pastors who gave a free pass to other Baptist churches merely because they identify as being “Baptist.” That is so shallow, wrong, sinful and unethical. A sore evil that I have found is that your average Baptist pastor today doesn't pay attention to the details. They couldn't care less about what the Baptist church down the street is teaching, and that's s big problem when you're supporting that church.

Satan's Little Helper: Pastor Sean Quinlan

Case in point is Pastor Sean Quinlan at the Lighthouse Baptist Church on Guam. He was a Pensacola Christian College (PCC) intern pastor there for a few years. He quit in 2018, thankfully. One evening after church I was sharing a private conversation with a friend in the church. We were standing outside in the parking lot, by the front of the church. I told my friend Bill that “Bob Jones University sells corruptible seed,” which immediately angered Quinlan. He rudely interrupted me and Bill and said, “I've been over-hearing your conversations for the past several months and you're obsessed with the Bible issue.” What a disgrace for a pastor!!!

It didn't surprise me, considering that he is working for the cult at PCC. The name if Harvest Baptist Church was brought up, which Pastor Quinlan instantly defended as their “sister church.” I felt like regurgitating! “Sister Church?,” I said, “They teach the heresy of Calvinism at Harvest, Lordship Salvation!” Quinlan responded, “It's none of our business what they teach at Harvest!” Oh man, did Pastor Quinlan dig a grave for himself. I scolded him for not caring, and for wickedly bidding Godspeed to a damnable cult that perverts God's simple plan of salvation.

Dear reader, this is what is wrong with over 95% of Baptist pastors and layman today, they just couldn't care less about right doctrine, the purity of the Word of God or the accuracy of the Gospel. As long as the money keeps flowing in, and the attendance is increasing, they are content, at ease in Zion. Pastor Quinlan even shamefully told me, “I am trying to build a church and you're bringing controversies into my church.” Well, first of all, to the best of my recollection Bill was the only person I had ever talked to in the church about the Bible issue, and they were private conversations. I hardly think I was a threat to split HIS CHURCH, or run off new members. What the hell is wrong with pastors today?

A month earlier I was having a conversation with Pastor Quinlan outside the front doors of the church, when he admitted to me that if pressed he couldn't show someone one thing wrong with the modern Bible revisions. I couldn't believe that he admitted such a shameful thing. A few weeks earlier during a Sunday evening sermon, Pastor Quinlan warned the church members that some of the new Bibles are “bad news”! Yet, he couldn't show someone one thing wrong with the new Bibles, even if his life depended upon it, by his own shameful admission. Does that make any sense? Shame on him! And shame on PCC!

What do you mean, “It's none of our business!,” what they teach at Harvest Baptist Church on Guam? If that be true, then why do you care what the Mormons, Roman Catholics and Seventh-Day Adventist cults teach? Why does a Baptist church get a free pass on what they teach and preach? Harvest uses the Easy-To-Read Version (ERV), which is highly corrupt! They preach hardcore Lordship Salvation, as does the entire Bob Jones University cult.

I heard their wicked pastor Marty Herron with my own two ears in 2014, tell hundreds of church members on a Sunday morning during his sermon invitation that quote: “It's not enough to admit you're a sinner, you must forsake a lifestyle of sinning to get to Heaven.” That is another gospel! That is a counterfeit plan of salvation! That is damnable heresy!!! Why does Pastor Sean Quinlan support and wickedly bid Godspeed to such evil? Maybe if he would pay attention to the details, as I am doing, instead of criticizing me and making lame excuses and turning a blind eye to deadly false doctrine, he would.

This is why the inspired Word of God warns us about THE LOVE OF MONEY, which is the root of all evil (1st Timothy 6:7-11). Sean Quinlan was paid by PCC to build the attendance at Lighthouse Baptist Church, with no regard for doctrinal integrity. SHAME!!! PCC gave Quinlan $25,000 to spend on fixing up the church's property. He bought a playground set for the children. He paid to have a thick concrete slab put down for a large outdoor patio. He used the money to install a basketball hoop on the church property. But he harshly reprimanded me for caring enough to make an issue over Satan's corruptible seed at Bob Jones University, in a private conversation that was none of his damn business. What a dingleberry for a pastor!

That is the big problem with the whole PCC camp, they are only concerned about protecting and improving their public image, while throwing the Gospel and the inspiration of the King James Bible under the bus. In this sermon excerpt, Pastor Jack Hyles exposes Pensacola Christian College for denying the inspiration of the King James Bible. I wouldn't enroll a dog into PCC! You are a fool as a parent if you entrust your impressionable child to PCC's wolves! Pastor Jeff Redlin is a devil at PCC's corrupt Campus Church. All they care about is money at PCC and protecting their public image, but individual people mean nothing to them. I found that out firsthand when I attended Campus Church in 2021 for a few months.

Tragically, most Baptist churches today have strayed far away from a free grace Gospel, and you simply ought not go anywhere near those cults. I am warning you about the Family Baptist Church in Pensacola (who are in bed committing spiritual adultery with PCC). I am warning you about the Smyrna Baptist Church in Pensacola (whose pastor's daughter attends PCC). I am warning you about the Fairfield Baptist Church in Pensacola (whose shameful pastor Josh Thompson teaches a class at PCC). RUN from these places!!!

Satan has crept into most Baptist churches today. Before you attend any particular Baptist church, you need to ask them these important questions (the answers you should receive are in bold red font):

1. Do you use the King James Bible? YES
2. Do you believe that the King James Bible is verbally inspired? YES
3. Do you use or support any other version than the King James Bible? NO
4. Do you teach that Bible repentance means to turn from your sin? NO
5. Do you believe that repentance is a separate act from faith? NO
6. Do you believe that faith alone in the Gospel as an admitted sinner is enough to get to Heaven? YES
7. Do you believe that you must also accept Jesus as your “Lord” to be saved? NO
8. Do you believe that your behavior must change to prove that you are really saved? NO

If the pastor refuses to answer those questions, or gives you the wrong responses, RUN!

Please don't become another victim by trusting the name “Baptist,” because most Baptists today are hellbound fools, trusting in their misunderstood repentance and Lordship Salvation.

Do You Have Doubts About Salvation?

Luke 10:20, “Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.”

When I attended the shameful Harvest Baptist Church on Guam in 2013-2014, one of their deacons approached me after a Sunday evening service. He kindly asked me a question, while his wife respectfully waited abut 10 feet behind him. The deacon said something like:

“Brother Stewart, I have doubted my salvation for a long time. Could you help me understand God's plan of salvation better.”

Over the next 10 minutes, I expounded the Scripture to him to the best of my humble ability. When I had finished, he said: “Why don't they teach stuff like that from the pulpit?” Without hesitation I replied that it was because his pastors do not understand what it feels like to doubt that you are saved, but I fully understand that pain and grief of soul.

I was saved as a young teenager. I don't remember how old I was. I do know that I was in junior high at the time, in either 7th or 8th grade. It was early summertime at the Northland Baptist Temple on Chicago's northside. I used to tell everybody that I was 13 years old when I got saved, but after much thinking about the matter, I started telling people that I was 12. I truly do not remember. I wish I had thought to write down the date when I got saved. My guess is that it was in 1979 at age 12, but I could have just as easily been age 13. Only God knows! The important thing is not WHEN I was saved, but that I AM saved. Thankfully, I DO have a recollection of a PLACE and an EXPERIENCE of calling upon the name of the Lord.

Anyway, I was a shy teenager, and still today at age 59 I am very self-conscious and shy around people. So, I didn't walk an aisle or tell anyone that I trusted Jesus as my Savior. But on the day I was saved a battle started in my soul over whether I was saved or nor. I feared, simply because no one had ever plainly explained to me what I needed to do to be saved. I wish that my pastor had shared from the pulpit that day exactly what I needed to do (and not do) to get to Heaven, but he didn't. He simply invited people to walk the aisle to find out how to be saved. That is why for many years now I have discouraged preachers from requiring lost sinners to walk down a church aisle to learn how to get to Heaven. In so doing, they are adding an unnecessary step to God's simple plan of salvation, which God does not require.

The day I got saved, I did ask Jesus to save me. I knew that He died in my place on Calvary's cross. When I called out to Him silently in my soul, I believed that I was calling upon a risen and living Savior. I didn't realize at the time that you don't even have to ask, call or pray to be saved, you just simply need to BELIEVE THE GOSPEL (1st Corinthians 15:1-6).

Dear reader, if you ever have the opportunity to speak about God to a group of people at church, please DO NOT ask anyone to meet with the pastor at the back of the church after the service, or to walk down an aisle, because someone may go to Hell because of you! Always share the Gospel with people right there in their pew. To show just how easy, free and simple it is to be saved, I wrote this blog titled: “The Gospel In 45 Seconds.” I could have even shortened it to 30 seconds if I left out some extra comments that I wanted to make.

My ministry friend Michael P. Bowen explains God's simple plan of salvation on page XII in the Introduction of his helpful book titled: “I NEVER KNEW YOU”...

Here is the gospel: God says that we are sinners and that no amount of good works or behavioral changes on our part could ever make us holy enough to enter heaven. God sent His Son to pay for all of our sins. Jesus paid for our crimes by dying on the cross for us all. His dead body was buried in a grave. On the third day, Jesus arose from the dead.

The instant you believe this, He knows it and He saves you. “Verily, verily, I say unto you, he that believeth on Me hath everlasting life”(John 6:47). The free gift is based solely upon your trust in what Jesus did for you and has nothing at all to do with what you do for Him. “For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast” (Ephesians 2:8-9).

That's it dear reader, BELIEVE IT OH SINNER, and you are saved! Nothing more is required nor allowed to enter into God's heavenly Kingdom. Sadly, well-meaning religious men complicated God's simple plan of salvation by adding sacraments, stipulations, obligations and service. You get saved by getting out of the way, to simply RES in what Christ has already done through Calvary's cross to pay for your sins (Hebrews 4:10-11). Simply believe that Jesus did it all for you!

Just like my deacon friend at the horrible Harvest Baptist Church on Guam, where the Devil's lies of Lordship Salvation and Misunderstood Repentance are taught still today, millions of people are confused about God's simple plan of salvation. When those wicked neo-evangelical preachers foolishly say to “repent of your sins” to be saved, that confused people.

They are sinfully mixing service with salvation (which is what Lordship Salvation is), combining works with grace to pervert the Gospel (Galatians 1:6-7). Christ died for humanity on the cross, taking the whole burden of your sins upon Himself, so that you wouldn't have to. Nowhere in the inspired King James Bible does it teach that to be saved a person must shoulder the weight of their own sins by being willing to forsake them. To be willing to give up one's sinful bad habits is a very difficult, challenging and complicated FALSE plan of salvation. Sadly, this is the Satanic garbage taught at Pensacola Christian College today.

Dear reader, you don't need to have even the slightest doubt about whether or not you are going to Heaven. If your trust (faith, reliance) is in Jesus Christ alone because of WHO He is (the Christ, the only begotten Son of God); and WHAT He did for you on Calvary's cross (Jesus died, was buried and physically resurrected from the dead three days later), then you are forever born again (saved, redeemed, a child of God). Nothing less or more is required.

Remember, it's not what you are DOING that gets you into Heaven, it's where you are LOOKING. Look to Jesus, the slain and risen LAMB OF GOD (John 1:29; Isaiah 45:22).