// -->, "Holding fast the faithful word as he hath been taught, In 2017, Pastor Steven Anderson and Faithful Word Baptist started FWBC of Los Angeles, and Pastor Mejia spearheaded the effort as an evangelist for two years. He kept threatening suicide by proxy of the victims. Faithful Word Baptist Church is infamous for pastor Steve Anderson's views on homosexuals and women, but there are other red flags of abuse worth looking into. But on top of beingzealousAnderson is a Pelagian. About a year and a half later, the church was moved to a strip mall that was also used by Andersons fire alarm installation business. It is Trinitarian and rejects modalism. Steven Anderson, pastor of [Un]Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, I. From my perspective, thats a good thing. *NEW* In addition to YouTube, we are now livestreaming to Godresource.com: Contact: According to the Dutch state secretary, there is "no space for discrimination or the encouragement of hate, intolerance or violence in a democratic rechtsstaat like ours". The guy doesn't even hide in interviews how much he hates "sodomites." Pastor David Berzins Strong Hold Baptist Church. Please contact the moderators of this subreddit if you have any questions or concerns. Upon graduating, he traveled throughout Germany and Eastern Europe for three months, serving in local Independent Baptist churches, studying languages and getting experience in the ministry. that he may be able by sound doctrine both to exhort and to convince the gainsayers." At the same time people are emailing, reaching out on social media, all with tales of things happening or have happened with Anderson that are just mind boggling. Anderson operates a website titled True Sons of Liberty where he recommends elimination of the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Reserve Bank, the Social Security Administration, and child protective services. Pastor Anderson's materials have now been translated into over 115 languages! It is independent, not affiliated with any larger Baptist body. You dont even have to believe in Jesus, according to Pope Francis, in order to be redeemed. First of all, the fact that hes even calling himself father right there is blasphemy even in itself. He refused to move his car or roll down his windows, triggering a 90-minute standoff and the calling of Arizona Department of Public Safety officers to the scene. And so, we go to the heretics and document their falsehoods for ourselves and our posterity. His church used to be called "Faithful Word Baptist Church in Los Angeles" an offshoot of the church of the same name in Arizona. Phone: (602) 456-1049 The church which he describes as an old-fashioned, independent, fundamental, King James Bible only, soul-winning Baptist church is currently listed as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) because of Andersons radical stands. From the YouTube videos, it appears that the congregation is small. Don't expect anything contemporary or liberal. Steven Anderson is the infamous pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona, USA, who has regularly called for the death of homosexuals. The people who followed Anderson surely must be as crazy as he is. Anderson claimed in one of his uploaded YouTube sermons that these people all shouldve been killed anyway given that the Bible says that homosexuals should be put to death., He also believes that the victims of Frances Bataclan terror attack deserved to die. A Texas locality near a church to which Anderson is connected protested a pastor's call for the execution of LGBTQ+ people earlier this month. While he doesnt specifically encourage violence, he praises it and justifies his ideology by using his religious beliefs to disprove others.. [15] Broughton's appearance at the rally was part of a publicity stunt that was organized by conservative radio talk show host Ernest Hancock, who also came to the rally armed, and engaged in a staged interview with Broughton which was later broadcast on YouTube. Habakkuk 3. He is pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church in Tempe, Arizona. The attendance board showed that they were running more than 325 on Sunday morning, with more than 200 on Sunday evening. "No homos will ever be allowed on this church as long as I'm the pastor here!" Anderson? The Bible says: Call no man your Father upon the earth, for one is your Father which is in heaven., We, as men, have a desire to lead a woman and not to be led by a woman. I couldnt resist taking a photo behind the pulpit to send to my friend and fellow polemicist, Chris Rosebrough, to see if he would know where I was (he did). Zsuzsanna, a stay-at-home mother, is also an active online user and has a blog, stevenandersonfamily.blogspot.com, where she regularly posts updates about the large Anderson family. He straight up says first thing "I hate sodomites" whenever he is on TV. Pastor Anderson talks about the reliability of the evidence shown as proof that the Holocaust happened. Imagine if Jack Hyles and Jack Chick somehow singularly merged their eccentricities and had a three-way love child with the physical female embodiment of sheer ignorance, and this would essentially be Steven Anderson. I understand his popularity. Then there was the time he called for war against thegays. In the summer of 2013, Pastor Furse's family happened to be vacationing in Arizona, and he made it a point to visit one of the producers of this DVD, Steven Anderson. It states that the church believes in salvation by faith alone once saved, always saved a literal hell for all those who are unsaved, and the primacy of the local church. The church multiplied and hundreds of souls were saved. The Anderson family has twelve children from parents Steven and Zsuzsanna Anderson. He blames the Jews for everything, just like Texe Marrs. She says she, her husband and children, whom she home-schools, spend our days learning, working, playing and putting out all kinds of fires as we serve our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.. First, in case you were unaware, the Faithful Word Baptist Church is a phenomenon that could only have happened in the age of the Internet. Baptist anti-LGBTQ+ preacher Steven Anderson warned that gays and lesbians would try to fool people into sexual temptation by getting them drunk. While passing through an internal Border Patrol checkpoint on April 14, 2009, Pastor Anderson declined to have his car searched. Until stricter online rules are introduced, Lipowsky said, listening to and being influenced by the messages of hate spread by preachers such as Anderson will continue to expand. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1-800-273-TALK (8255) | Hotlines by Country: here, 24-hour, toll-free, confidential suicide prevention hotline available to anyone in suicidal crisis or emotional distress. Banned from half a dozen countries across the globe, the US-born hate preacher has lauded the 2016 Orlando massacre, publicly prayed for the death of former US President Barack Obama and denied the Holocaust. Pastor Steven L. Anderson Welcome to the website of Faithful Word Baptist Church! I wanted to see it for myself and surveil the congregation and working of the church. Donnie Romero, a Baptist pastor who has made national headlines for his virulently homophobic sermons, recently resigned from his Texas church after admitting he has been "a terrible husband. Oddly (although I have seen it before in smaller churches), there were recliners and rockers put at the end of the aisles (which consisted of folding chairs), ostensibly for senior citizens who desired to be more comfortable. KJV Only, Once Saved Always Saved, Replacement Theology, Post-Tribulation, Anti-Dispensationalism, Anti-LGTBQ, Anti-Homosexual Preaching Banned Preaching Banned Preaching How to Be 100% Sure You are Going to Heaven Download ALL FWBC CONTENT NOW The congregation was younger, and their median age (Im guessing) was 30. He is a Holocaust denier who praised the Pulse. Half In Half Out. And then, I tried to make sense of it. In early YouTube posts, he hints at unhappy school years and said he hated going to seventh grade, citing being bullied. Anderson was born in Sacramento, California to an Independent Baptist family, and he attended Woodcreek High School, in Roseville. The church has been listed as an anti-gay hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center for Anderson's sermons. On her blog, she echoes her husbands extremist views on equal rights, the sins of other religions, TV, in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and abortion. They're going to molest you. 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[16] Anderson told ABC News affiliate KNXV-TV in Phoenix that the Secret Service contacted him after this event. Then there was a sermon about Jesus wearing britches. That was one of my personal favorites. In one sermon, Anderson said Hinduism is Satanic, and those who follow the Roman Catholic faith are confessing their sins to the priest who calls himself father and dresses like his mother in a dress.. Several of these clips have been seen millions of times, and all originated in a rented strip mall storefront well off the main thoroughfare and down a side-street of obscurity. Graphic Design by Richard Miller. Theres money for these kidney transplants and organ transplants., Bunch of filthy murderous liberals can continue their abortion holocaust.. This means that I study fraudulent, sub-Christian groups that disguise themselves as orthodox churches or Biblical movements. 1981). I still hate those reprobates. Butheres what I saw at Faithful Word Baptist Church. I chuckled upon this realization, that few would seek out Steven Anderson to explain the keys to racial reconciliation in the church, but honestly, he seems to have what might be the best example of the ethnic diversity that I have personally ever seen. he shrieks, "Never!". An insight into his mindset can be found on various social media platforms, mainly through YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and his blog http://sanderson1611.blogspot.com, all of which he uses for his hate crusade. "Pastor Steve Anderson's warped views of Jews and Judaism are a perversion of our faith and people," said Rabbi David Sandmel, ADL Director of Interfaith Affairs. Anderson, of the Faithful Word Baptist Church in Arizona, notoriously welcomed the gunning down in June of 50 people at a gay nightclub in . Gelber said Anderson is a key example of extremists use of social media and the problems that arise with it. That church is larger (considerably) than Phoenix Reformed Baptist Church or Apologia Church, both of which are Calvinistic in their doctrine and have pseudo-celebrity (in a theology-nerd kind of way) pastors in the nearby area. The Faithful Baptist Church in Phoenix Temple, Arizona is one of many Christian fundamentalist churches in the United States. I still hate those sodomites. According to experts, he is part of a growing trend of hate preachers hiding behind religion, using their places of worship as a sanctuary to spread their discriminatory and bigoted messages to the world, all under the smokescreen of religious freedom.. He represents pretty much everything wrong with Christianity. Under US laws, you have to be very clear in showing that the speech specifically led to the act of violence, he added. "[9] Emory University PhD candidate Matthew Brittingham suggested that Anderson is part of a connected but "diffuse group of theologically-focused, antisemitic Christian conspiracists who deny the Holocaust. By saying he doesnt condone the violence in Orlando per se, Anderson is covered, although we can see hes preaching that hatred and someone who listened to that might feel this makes sense and we need to take this from words into action., In Andersons YouTube videos, you can see a physical pulpit, but social media also allows him a digital pulpit that allows him to reach much further., Josh Lipowsky, research analyst at the Counter ExtremismProject. After he led her to the Lord, Anderson encouraged her into fundamentalist Baptist Christianity, and they were married shortly after. I stood up to them then, and Im going to stand up to them now.. One of the things that has emerged the last few days is more screen caps from those chats and audio of Steven Andersons ranting, raving, blame-a-thon where he claimed hed beaten his sons into repentance and that if this was exposed beyond church that the female teenage victims would commit suicide. The international outcry over his comments and beliefs have failed to dampen Andersons so-called mission to save the world by spreading his evangelical Christian message. . Anderson has made international headlines by being banned from several countries, most recently Ireland. You might like. What did I learn from my field trip to Faithful Word Baptist Church? A member of the pastors congregation then showed up at an Obama appearance armed with an assault rifle and a pistol. Now, our society has tried to engineer that differently, through the brainwashing campaigns in school and TV and media, to try to get women to think that they really want to be powerful and bossy. he begins. So is Zsuzsannas blog and social media. There's someone here, here, For non-crisis support, try 7 Cups of Tea or r/kindvoice. Several someones recovered the crazy long mea culpa cum shut the heck up service at Faithful Word Baptist Church by Steven Anderson. If you can stomach it, please watch and be disgusted: Contents Posting this a little while ago. You bought the ticket., He has also openly criticized Pope Francis for his more tolerant views, describing him as the greatest false prophet on the earth at this time.. Beth Moores Existential Crisis and Timely Repentance. Mejia belongs to the same brand of New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches as his mentor Pastor Steven Anderson, and it came through in his sermons. A report has been made to law enforcement, and Im guessing its likely triggered an investigation. Gene Decode Time Travel - The Plan to Save The World_mpeg4.mp4 A lot of people become interested in him because of how much they hate gay people and how charismatic and straight foward he is about hating gay people and using the bible to hate gay people. Anditwas full. So, whats with all these living, breathing, normal people crowding into the shopping center to hear him? Controversial Arizona pastor Steven Anderson, the firebrand KJV-Onlyist from Faithful word Baptist Church in Tempe, AZ, has been permanently banned from Youtube, having his entire operation shout down from multiple accounts. : Directed by Steven L. Anderson. var domain = "gmail.com"; [12][13][d], Anderson did not solicit the killing of President Obama but he did suggest that the country would "benefit" from his death. Steven Anderson, a pastor of the Faithful World Baptist Church wanted to arm wrestle women. Stay tuned folks. Being sincerely wrong doesnt make up for being wrong. Steven L. Anderson is a piece-of-shit pastor, cyberbully, and anti-LGBT activist from Tempe, Arizona, running the Faithful Word Baptist Church. "[4] Members of the church meet in an office space that is located inside a strip mall. "[14] He told columnist Michelangelo Signorile that he "would not judge or condemn" anyone who killed the president. They're going to ply you with alcohol or ply you with drugs, and they're going to abuse you. The ladies, both old and young, wore dresses. No longer does one have to wait for the five oclock news to find out whats already old. Anderson certainly appears to fit this pattern, Gelber added. My library on the cults is ever-expanding, and ranges from recent best-selling heretics the likes of Rob Bell to the helpful works of Walter Martin and B.B. Pastor Steven L. Anderson Describes Starting a Baptist Church: Directed by Steven L. Anderson. I came to Faithful Word Baptist Church expecting to see a freak show, and what I saw was basically the epitome of a loving, warm, and hospitable group of well-dressed people who seemingly loved Jesus and one another. Anderson founded Faithful Word in 2005 and since then has traveled extensively and created a worldwide network of like-minded pastors who have launched similar churches in several different countries. The way the Holy Scriptures have been distorted in this video is indeed satanic! JOHANNESBURG - While the online rant of US evangelical pastor and self-proclaimed interpreter of all things biblical, Steven Anderson, has been met with shock and anger, his attack on. Faithful Word Baptist Church is a young, family-integrated church. Anderson says he hates anyone who believes in the sin of any other religion than his own fundamentalist Christian beliefs. If this shit is happening regularly it is only a matter of time before he goes down worse than Ted Haggard. 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