Andersonite Preacher Relieved from His Police Job in Knoxville

Grayson Frits

Knox County Sheriff’s detective Grayson Fritts, who is also a pastor, has been put on sick leave because of sermons calling for the arrest and death of homosexuals. Earlier this year he applied for a voluntary early retirement, which apparently has been granted. He is the pastor of All Scripture Baptist Church (“KJV-Soul Winning”), a small storefront work in Knoxville. And in a sermon on June 2, he called for the government to send a riot team to the local Gay Pride parade, to arrest LGBT people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual), try them, and if convicted, execute them. The church’s web site says, “God said homosexuality should be punished with the death penalty, as set forth in Leviticus 20:13.” Not surprisingly, there is an influence from Steven Anderson, the pastor of Faithful Word Baptist Church of Tempe, Arizona, who preached at Fritts’ church on April 26. Anderson, too, preaches that Leviticus 20:13 should be enforced in America. “Because if you executed the homos, like God recommends, you wouldn’t have all this AIDS running rampant” (“Pastor Calls for Killing Gays,” USA Today, Dec. 6, 2014). Anderson says, “I do hate homosexuals and if hating homosexuals makes our church a hate group then that’s what we are” (cited from Schlatter, SPLC). Of the 2016 Orlando nightclub shooting Anderson said, “The good news is that there’s 50 less pedophiles in this world, because these homosexuals are just a bunch of disgusting perverts and pedophiles” (“Gay Hating Preacher,” Sunday Express, Sept. 16, 2016). Anderson preached “Why I Hate Barack Obama” and said he prayed for the president’s death. Anderson is a deeply confused individual who should not be in the ministry. When James and John wanted to call down fire upon those who rejected the Lord, Christ rebuked them and said they were of the wrong spirit (Luke 9:54-56). To try to put a Gentile nation under the law of Moses is dispensational confusion. Anderson denies the Holocaust, holds to Replacement Theology, believes that God is finished with Israel, rejects biblical repentance, believes that salvation doesn’t have evidence, and denies the imminency of the Rapture. All of this is documented in What about Steven Anderson? a free eBook available at www.wayoflife.org.

(Friday Church News Notes, July 19, 2019, www.wayoflife.org, fbns@wayoflife.org, 866-295-4143)

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