ABOUT ME
Bill Rhetts has enjoyed a colorful career path. Including but not limited to, he has served our communities as a journeyman meat cutter with Safeway Stores Inc., where he was promoted to manager.
He then became a policeman working a variety of assignments and positions. He also provided executive protection for celebrities and VIP clients, was a Professor of Criminal Justice, and served as a State licensed private investigator (Lic #23442).
After the Lord saved him (both physically & spiritually) during a gun battle at a Church, he began serving the Lord under the umbrella of his local church, hospital clergy, the chaplaincy, and various ministries.
His undergraduate studies were in Biblical Studies (with a concentration in Pastoral Ministries), and through his postgraduate studies at LBU-TS, he earned his Master’s degree in Bible and Theology.
His most recent call was pastoring a Baptist church that embraced the five fundamental Doctrines of Grace. That practices a Regulative Principle of Worship, Covenant Theology, Reformed Theology, and a full-strict subscription to the 1689 London Baptist Confession of Faith. But he resigned from that Pastorate to move to rural Tennessee for a slower, quieter Southern lifestyle that’s more therapeutic. After moving to Tennessee, he was surprised by how rampant egalitarianism is in the so-called “Bible Belt.” Though he’s always been an opponent of egalitarianism (and still is). Today, he is more proactive in opposing complementarianism while advocating for patriarchal theology.
Politically, he describes himself as being “to the right of today’s Republican party.” In 1999, liberals, the anti-police, and anti-Christians protested his employment as a policeman, calling him a “Far-right Christian extremist!” Though that was not helpful to his career, today he considers that accusation a “badge of honor.”
By God’s grace, he continues to enjoy theology, apologetics, polemics, expository Bible teaching, open-air preaching, ham radio, long-range precision shooting, and podcasting. He and his wife enjoy various outdoor activities and the rural country life.
He describes himself as an “ordinary sinner saved by an Extraordinary Savior” (Simul Iustus et Peccator). That apart from Christ, he is “nothing but excrement in God’s holy hand.” And “There’s nothing good about me except the goodness of God and righteousness of Christ!”
“And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry” (1st Timothy 1:12).
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