Pastor Roger Jimenez Resigns: The Fall Of A False Prophet
As the co-founder of the New Independent Fundamentalist Baptist movement and self-proclaimed best friend of Roger Jimenez for north of a decade, Pastor Steven Anderson of Faithful Word Baptist Church is not responsible for the sins of Roger Jimenez - but that doesn’t mean he didn’t know what was going on.
In like manner, the remaining pastors of the NIFB movement will continue to play hot potato with the responsibilities and requirements that come with being a bishop, elder, pastor, or deacon.
One day, they’ll preach on the qualifications from scripture and complain that other churches don’t vet their leaders enough — and by the next service, one of the pastors in their circle enables men to beat their wives if they’re considered disobedient.
Instead of treating the office of the under shepherd as something to take seriously, the skeleton crew of pastors that still stand as part of the movement are only in it for one thing — power.
As a result of the surplus of attacks from the fruitless faithful, the heart of the movement and the spirit behind these men is revealed.
It’s no longer a matter of dealing with rose colored glasses, it’s dealing with the spirit of death that’s behind them.
This last Saturday, January 17, former pastor Roger Jimenez failed to execute his office of pastor to the biblical standard due to what he only referred to as “moral sin” (whatever that means) and resigned as the leader of Verity Baptist Church via Facebook.
In true New IFB fashion, Pastor Steven Anderson (and the innumerable number of flying monkeys that come with him) swarmed to social media to wonder how this could ever happen to such a “man of God” and began demanding answers even though the answer was obvious.
According to Jimenez, his resignation was not forced, he didn’t steal anything from the church, didn’t commit a crime, didn’t commit adultery (at least with a person), and he made this choice independently and autonomously.
Oh — almost forget — you can’t ask any questions either and he’s not even going to bother addressing his congregation in person after fifteen years in the ministry.
Here’s what really happened.
On January 7, I wrote an article with a focus on bringing to light accusations of predatory behavior by Stephanie Loewen. She appeared on an episode of the Preacher Boys podcast in a 2022 video and gave details of her interactions with Roger as a young child and then as a teenager while he was an adult.
Loewen alleged that Roger touched her inappriately, groomed her into kissing him, and did this not just when they were younger but also later on in life when she was 15 and he was adult. Outside of her situation, she also alluded to another high school girl who was having a “relationship” with Roger up until the week before he was married to Joann Jimenez.
The Bible says that for someone to be a bishop (synonym for pastor) they must be blameless and of good report to those outside of the church, among other qualifications.
Because of the serious nature of the allegations from Loewen, it surprised me that they had never been denied publicly by Jimenez from the pulpit — especially since he was so keen on calling out the sins of the world so frequently and had no issue naming names.
On January 8, Jimenez sent me a text asking to speak with me about the article and I agreed to speak with him.
Jimenez began the call by calling me a reprobate, a terrorist, and even threatened to sue me multiple times within the first few minutes.
His voice sounded like he’d been screaming for a long time before we spoke, but it wasn’t him feeling helpless - it was because he now had nowhere to hide.
On January 17, Jimenez resigned without notice and without answering any questions publicly.
Over the last 15 years or so, Jimenez and Anderson built themselves a mini-me empire within the New IFB. However, following the 2024 Red Hot Preaching Conference in Sacramento, abuse allegations went viral against Anderson and came from his eldest children.
Solomon, John, Isaac, and Miriam all came forward to share that both their mother and father were abusive to both them and each other.
Anderson defended himself immediately, even doubling down at one point to say that “even if I did do it [abuse]” that it did not contradict anything in his King James Bible.
And this was the moment that cracked the cult.
Longtime friends of the Anderson family separated from him, including pastors David Berzins, Jason Robinson, Jared Pozarnsky, Salvador Alvarez, and Joe Jones. Each of these pastors shared the stage with Anderson at different points in NIFB history, but blurring the line between abuse and discipline was where they (rightfully) drew the line.
All of these men also were willing to be honest with their congregation that their interactions with Steven Anderson as it relates to them asking questions about the allegations promptly changed their view of him because they finally saw who he really was.
After this split, Jimenez stayed completely silent — no denial or approval to him meant no need for damage control.
He continued preaching while avoiding anything good, bad, or ugly as it relates to Anderson.
If you understand the dynamic between Jimenez and Anderson, you understand that the dynamic between them was a united, inseparable, spitfire duo who had been side-by-side since their younger years and how weird it really is that he chose to silently slide away from the uncomfortable truth of the situation with his friend.
Steven Anderson attended Regency Baptist Church with Roger Jimenez, but denies knowing about the situation involving Stephanie Loewen, which he stated on the most recent edition of the Baptist Bias podcast with Jonathan Shelley.
Anderson further shared on the podcast that Jimenez “sucked as a friend” and that he doesn’t miss him because “he’s a railer” but eventually admitted that Jimenez “went down a dark path” without getting specific.
Regardless of the next steps taken by Verity Baptist Church, the fall of Roger Jimenez shows what happens when you think you are bigger than God and how quickly the Lord will humble the wicked.
