Nick Quient is the Associate Pastor of Spiritual Formation at First Baptist Church of the Redlands in Redland, California. Quient is a matriarchist who not only sits under the leadership of a female pastor--something that the Scriptures wholly reject--but who also took his wife's last name when they married.

Quient, in a pamphlet titled How I Submit to my Wife - How a Feminist With a Hairy Chest Chose to Take His Beloved's Last Name, writes "I saw mutual submission as required for marriage, and I believe that it was the strongest measure of what I could do: I give of myself to her, and I honor her, by esteeming her heritage, her culture, her family, by taking her last name."

Besides completely giving up his biblical manhood in favor of cultural feminism, Quient is a heretic on the doctrine of Hell as well. Quient, like a close associate of his, Chris Date, is an annihilationist. According to Quient's LinkedIn page, he "contributed the chapter, 'Paul & the Annihilation of Death'" which was "partially based on an academic presentation I gave at the inaugural Rethinking Hell Conference in Houston, Texas. July 2014."

Leighton Flowers, a Southern Baptist pastor who devotes the entirety of his ministry arguing against God's authority and right to choose and act how he pleases, joined Nick Quient recently in a podcast titled Nick Quient on Divine Sovereignty and Human Freedom to argue against God's sovereignty. The issue here isn't what was said in the podcast itself--it's the same rhetoric and thoroughly debunked arguments they always make. The bigger issue here is that Leighton Flowers--who is supposed to believe and hold to the Southern Baptist's statement of faith--has to go completely outside of the realms of orthodoxy to find someone to defend his view.