For college students by college students. Who better to review a college? This is my own independent review and reflects none of the convictions of PCC. Enjoy!
Sadly, the leadership of Pensacola Christian College (PCC) and their Campus Church (on the property of PCC) have a snobby, intolerant, unforgiving, hateful spirit toward anyone who dares to question their doctrine or policies. I live in Pensacola. I attended Campus Church for a few months in 2021, but learned quickly that their senior pastor Jeff Redlin is not a nice man. I kindly told Pastor Redlin that my former wife sadly divorced me 15 years earlier in 2006, and that after all these years of loneliness, I hoped to find a woman at Campus Church to remarry. He immediately condemned me, scolding me for daring to even consider remarriage. He told me in front of his own wife that if I did find a woman, he refused to perform the wedding. I felt so despised and unwanted as a new church member. In truth, I never asked him to perform any wedding. The guy freaked out about the issue! The sad truth is that PCC are out of touch with reality, and they don't know how to treat people (and sadly don't want to learn). People don't care what you KNOW, until they know that you CARE. There is no permissive will of God at PCC, you must live a perfect life or else you will be on the outside looking in at Campus Church. PCC are a bunch of academic types who woefully lack God's compassion for people. I came to Campus Church as a 54 year old divorced man with a broken life and a hurting soul. Jeff Redlin mistreated me in his self-righteous pride. The way that you treat people matters! I was very nice to everyone at Campus Church and PCC. At PCC you will need to walk a fine line if you attend their school, dotting your i's and crossing your t's, or else they will quickly reject and ostracize you. Pastor Jeff Redlin made me feel dejected as a human being. After I left Campus Church in frustration, I was sad and lonely over the next several months, missing the friends I had made at PCC's church. So in June and July of 2022, I wrote three separate letters, pleading respectfully for forgiveness from pastor Jeff Redlin, assistant pastor Timothy Zacharias, Campus Church and PCC for offending them in 2021. I humbly offered to do whatever they require to make peace with them. They didn't even bother to respond! That is not God's love. That is not Bible Christianity. That is hatred, a religious cult, an institution that only cares about making more money, and doesn't care or have any compassion for hurting people. Mr. Redlin gets paid a very lucrative 6-digit salary! Religious crime pays well. Campus Church finished the fiscal year 2020 with $1,200,000 left in the bank (their yearly income was $3,500,000). Yet, when I attended Campus Church they required church members to pay $10 to attend a meeting on how to more effectively share the Gospel. That is pathetic! With all that cheddar in the bank, they still want people to pay $10 to learn how to share the Gospel more effectively. That speaks volumes about PCC's horribly wrong attitude toward Bible truth, getting lost sinners saved and the love of money. I could go on about some of the problems with Campus Church and PCC, the worst being that they are arrogant and refuse to hear any constructive criticisms. They will chop your head off like a turkey on Thanksgiving Day if you dare to question the gods who run PCC. They have a false humility. I say this all kindly with Christ's unconditional love. I have been praying for the PCC camp, that they will see the errors of their horrible selfish ways, and welcome me back to attend their church (as I am still humbly begging them). I don't agree with some things doctrinally at PCC, but I miss my friends. Sadly, the Christian army is the only army in the world that kills its wounded. All I want is to attend Campus Church, but Jeff Redlin and PCC leadership still refuse. I don't recommend PCC for young people. The only reason I want to go back to Campus Church is because I still have some friends there, whom I miss and love. Dear prospective student, please search Google for the umpteen PCC students who have been mistreated, expelled, banned from graduating and treated like garbage by PCC leadership, before you end up a victim too. Look before you leap! If you want a GREAT Bible college, check out Commonwealth Baptist College in Lexington, KY (they are a citywide soulwinning church and Bible college, but PCC is not. Also, PCC denies that the King James Bible is inspired, but Commonwealth Baptist College teaches that the King James Bible is inspired). PCC can only train you to be a religious academic, but you won't grow into the soulwinning, people-loving, real human being that God desires for you to be. If you want to become a religious robot that hates, rejects and refuses to give a second chance to those who offend you, as they are doing to me right now, then PCC is your vice. I speak from the heart. People just want to be loved. I have four adult children of my own. Do you really want to attend a religious college with those kind of people running things? Do you want them influencing you spiritually? Do you really want to become like them? My name is David J. Stewart. I graduated from Hyles-Anderson College (1985-1993) with a degree in Pastoral Theology. I have no regrets and love my home college and Pastor Jack Hyles (1926-2001). But I wouldn't recommend HAC today, because they have horribly changed for the worse since 2008, now denying the inspiration of the King James Bible. The infamous atheist Voltaire said: “The Bible is not the inspired, inerrant and 100% historically true words of God. ...If we would destroy the Christian religion, we must first of all destroy man’s belief in the Bible.” -Voltaire (French philosopher, 1694-1778) It is vitally important that you only attend a Bible college that actually believes we have an inspired Holy Bible today. God only authored One Book, not hundreds! Dr. Hyles loved his enemies and gave people second chances, and third, and fourth, et cetera. Jesus called Judas (who betrayed Him), "Friend." Either you love everyone or else you love no one. You won't learn that at PCC, you will learn to hate those who offend you, and to reject them. Something is very wrong with the leadership at Campus Church and PCC. Hey, ask them about me at Campus Church and PCC. They hate my guts (although they won't admit it), but I love them with God's love. They're mad at me because I dared to criticize their pastor on social media. I'm only human. It doesn't matter that I am trying to make peace with PCC, or that I have apologized to all of them repeatedly at PCC, or that I promised them to do what I can to make things right with PCC, they still REFUSE. I will make peace with them anytime they choose. Please don't let them get away with their hatred, by rewarding them for ostracizing hurting people like me, forbidding me from attending Campus Church. They are behaving like a cult, not God's children. Thank you for reading. = -)
Take it from someone who knows. Don't go if you are just going to try to find a way to skirt the rules. As upper classmen will teach you that there are ways. You ultimately decide whether or not to follow their lead. It's a big campus with a lot of students. You will end up having a bad experience. Just go with a good attitude, and remember you are leaving with a quality education
It's affordable, because they want people to come, so they can control each and every aspect of your life. These students were probably told what to say and what not to say. The people in this video were under supervision to make sure they didn't put a positive spin on PCC.
