They also corrected a previous repo I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. Leverages . Hyles kept close watch over the colleges curriculum to make sure it met his standards and was suitable for export to churches across the country. Meanwhile, the churchs lawyer, David Gibbs, has called for other victims to come forward with their stories. It is a frightful fact that mans will drives his discernment. And the night we got married, he told everybody it was our first kiss! But in July 2010, an hour into the Polished Shaft sermonin a church packed with thousands of teenagers there for a youth conferenceSchaap went further. In passing, it is interesting to note that Hyles evidence against Vic is loose, unsubstantiated, secondhand, hearsay gossip from unnamed sources (Robert Sumner, The Jack Hyles Story, chapter 5: The Hyles Reply). This was not merely a simple local church issue. If it were not so, the Bible would not thrice warn in the New Testament Epistles, Be not deceived.. He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. Hyles arranged for Jennie Nischik to work as a secretary in an adjoining office in the late 1960s, and she would not allow her husband to touch her by 1971. Yes, then, I agree. Evaluate 3 (13395 Ratings) Top rated: 3 . Christopher Settlemoir, 29 And, The labourer is worthy of his reward" (1 Timothy 5:18). Previous Post FWOTW: 1611Skirts.com Next Post The Coup de Grce. My dad lived a double life, one of a righteous family man and of a dynamic speaker in the public eye, but [another] one of sordid sexual secrets privately, secrets that only my siblings and me and my mom knew. Note: You may want to go get the tissue box before watch. Older Comments. Its your ego or a demon or Satans influence that causes you to doubt the edicts of the leadership., First Baptist members have long scoffed at cult comparisons. . When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. Update information for Linda Hyles-Murphrey More at IMDbPro Contact Info: View agent, publicist, legal on IMDbPro Biography Awards Photo Gallery Filmography Trailers and Videos Hide all | | Edit According to his reading, men ruled absolutely. 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the Lord. Theyre being shamed about how horrible they are. Columbus, OH 43205 ( map) Learn more about Linda Pax Lowes. It is a culture, past and present members say, enabled by cover-ups and cultlike control. That is insane! Terry was a deacon in the late 1980's when the deacon board rejected my family's appeal to them to -- finally -- deal with Jack Hyles and his decades-long affair with my mother. First Baptist had become a nationwide phenomenon, dubbed a superchurch by Time. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. But, of course, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.If you and your client really want to do the right thing, you'll face the fact that First Baptist Church has had a cancer growing in it for nearly 50 years. I was called the Antichrist and worse, Glover says. But yes, there is most definitely a door. Yet, you have failed with the most precious gifts God could have ever given you your wife, your children, and now, your ministry. Former pastor of Temecula Valley Baptist Church, Temecula, California, Convicted in 1999 of molesting a 14-year-old girl. I grieve for them.. Born in the tiny Dallas suburb of Italy, Hyles often preached about his alcoholic father, his devoted and deeply conservative Christian mother, and the curse of growing up poor. When he would counsel me, she says, he would be asking me these shocking questions about sex. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. The wrath of Hyles and his supporters again rained down. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. He used his temper as a form of control.. I anxiously await the day that I can say with all honesty, "They did the right thing". And my dad did nothing but cover it up. As with most of his sermons at the northwest Indiana megachurchthe 14th largest in the country and the biggest Independent Baptist house of worship in the nationthe message struck as bluntly as a pounded nail: Submit to Gods plan for your life or be snapped like a twig and flung away (as Schaap would demonstrate by cracking a stick over his head, tossing it aside, and barking, Next!). Nevertheless, the story of First Baptist is epic enough to rival the most sordid Old Testament tale. Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. I pity you for you will be experiencing the consequences of your actions for a very long time. And my dad did nothing but cover it up. Jack Schaap will be sentenced to prison this week and, as I type this, I am weeping for him and for my sister. Another philosophy of his is that he doesnt want to hear anything, because then he doesnt have to deal with it. Do I have any reason to believe that the Hyles dont love each other? I was embarrassed and humiliated that he said that, because David had kissed every other girl in the church, too, and they were all sitting there laughing. A row of white-coated high-ranking churchmen seated behind Schaap watched in silence. Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. He never had restrictions on his life. For information see: www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. His daughter, Linda Hyles Murphrey, recalls her mother and father arguing over his many affairs with church members. She left the church after alleging that Schaap behaved inappropriately during marriage counseling sessions in 2004 through 2009. Abused her. You all are a bunch of low-down, rotten, filthy, stinking, scummy, garbage-dump stench type of characters, the Tribune quoted one of them, Noel Shriovanth, as saying. Add a bio, trivia, and more. Hyles made the arrangements for and settled the terms of the divorce, and Hyles even paid for it! He claimed that he had long heard reports that Nischik was immoral, but the following important observation must be taken into consideration in this matter: Throughout all of this, Hyles being privy to most if not all of it by his own testimony, Vic remained a member in good standing of the First Baptist Church, song leader in Dr. Hyles own adult Sunday School class, choir member, a key worker in the bus ministry (where the pickings would be delightful among love-starved, fatherless, teenage girls), a trustee of Hyles-Anderson College, a financial adviser and assistant who helped him obtain a $1,500,000 loan for the purchase of the Hyles-Anderson campus, as well as a respected deacon in the First Baptist Church! Love Makes the World Go Round (RPM Sketch #2), A New City/A New Home (JimBaumerMe Newsletter), One Sheet for Living in Some Strange Days (indie rock). He knows all about Dave Hyles and all till now. In 1998, Joseph D. Combs, a former Bible teacher at Hyles-Anderson who had become a pastor in Tennessee, and his wife, Evangeline, were convicted on multiple charges of aggravated abuse, assault, and kidnapping of their adopted 11-year-old daughter. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. I was one of those chocago kids who rode the bus to church went to the church camp and youth camp went to all the church funtions and went to the highschool not once did anything inappropriate happen! (The previous are excerpts from Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco, first wife of Jack Hyles son Dave, November 1, 1989).THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES OWN DAUGHTERThe following is excerpted from Linda Murphreys testimony at the TEDxOjaiChange event in Ojai, California, April 5, 2012. Incidentally, Paula and I have volumes of stories to swap, and it is interesting to see just how similar they are. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. The belief was that women needed to be in complete and total submission to their husbands and to male leadership, says a former member who requested that she not be named. And at the end, awash in an old-time hymn, hundreds of them, expressions blank, unhesitatingly made their way to the front of the church. I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. The earliest memory of my mother's affair with Jack Hyles that I can remember dates back to the 1960's. Former pastor of Central Baptist Church, East Chicago, Indiana; current pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Miami, Florida, Convicted in 2009 of felony stalking of a 14-year-old, 6. I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. Early in my life I learned that there was one thing that could kill a festive mood at a dinner party. I think back to the utter immorality of the fundamentalist sect that ran by high school and college. ..and stay on our knees in prayer, because Satan is just waiting for the opportunity to strike. It was a fine sermon, and the people around memen in suits and ties with neatly combed hair, women in tastefully modest dresses, children sitting quietly beside themsmiled and nodded. We both graduated the same year and went to college. You are free to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. And there is grace.. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. You may have convinced your following in the past twenty years that 'it did not happen if they did not see it,' but God has seen every moment of those years, and my faith will not let [me] believe that He will let you go unpunished. Evaluate 3 (13395 Ratings) Top rated: 3 . My understanding is that with all the stuff going on theyve done something with it. I asked Rick Ross, whose nonprofit institute maintains an online archive of data on cults and controversial movements. My brother sent this to me today. He pastored a church in Texas and was found to be having affairs with 14 different women. This preacher, who had held Hyles up as his hero for 20 years and loved the man deeply and prayed for him passionately, approached him in fear and trembling about the matter of the door. 2. Posted on September 8, 2018 by Jim. This is what happens,when people worship a man,instead of God.We are all human and all capable of commiting horrendous sinwhich is why we must always keep our eyes turned upon Jesus. Enough with the Jack hyles worship there Eddy. Ross points to a landmark 1981 Harvard study on cult formation, which suggests that all cults, destructive or not, share three elements: an In the early 1980s, David Hyles, then in his 20s, was the youth pastor at First Baptist. In 2000, Joseph was sentenced to 114 years in prison; Evangeline got 65. He was chased from a job running the Sunday school at a church in Pinellas Park, Florida, over allegations of more affairs. I was embarrassed and humiliated that he said that, because David had kissed every other girl in the church, too, and they were all sitting there laughing. , because his influence is so pervasive even to this day. (Attendance peaked in the early 1990s, when more than 20,000 people came to services each Sunday, making First Baptist the largest church in the nation.) Female students at Hyles-Anderson, Busby recalls, underwent sporadic pajama inspections. If the tops and bottoms didnt match, says Busby, dorm supervisors would sometimes make us strip right there and put on an approved set., The pajama-clad young women would gather in the chapel to wait for Hyles. It is also an outrage that both Hyles and Schaap were allowed by the church leadership to have such power over a local church. His wife, Paula, divorced him. 594 thoughts on "Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange" Comment navigation. Hyles had deacons come forward during Pastor Schools and would order them to sit down, stand up, sit down, stand up repeatedly to demonstrate his unquestioning power over them. His strategy: Send a fleet of buses into some of the roughest neighborhoods in Chicago and northern Indiana, pack them with the poor and underprivileged, and drive them to First Baptist to experience the Gospel according to Hyles. I mean, absolutely, purely shocking. We stayed with the Busbys for a few days, and then moved into a condo project near the school, where many other students were living. Then theres Chester Mulligan, a pastor who was ordained in Hammond by Hyles. There were references to secret meetings with him in different places (Nischik. That decision and my close friendship with your ex-daughter-in-law (you remember her, don't you?) Treated her terribly. Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. (DeCoster left the egg industry in 2011 after his companys products caused a massive salmonella outbreak.) Linda. In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. Just click the "Edit page" button at the bottom of the page or learn more in the Biography submission guide. I take my hat off to Linda Murprhey and applaud her moral courage. So he would pay for peoples surgeries and pay for people to get their teeth fixed., By the late 1980s, the church was reaching its apotheosis. After his first sermon in 1947, Elijah blushed and Heavens flag flew at half mast for three days, he lamented in a 1975 Time magazine article. When authorities were called, McGuire says, Hyles told the girls parents how to avoid arrest. THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco. They didnt go on a vacation without asking my dads permission, and if he had said to drink the Kool-aid, Im not kidding, they would have. I met him fresh out of high school. You are a self-proclaimed giant, sensationalist, exhibitionist, and 'big-time spender' grasping for every expression of love, admiration and loyalty that you can get your filthy little hands on. On a cool Sunday evening in mid-October, I drove to Hammond to sit in on a First Baptist service. Our home was so full of turmoil, hatred, stress, strife, and as a little girl, it was isolating, it was intense, and it was frightening. When Nischik confronted Hyles in 1985 and demanded that he leave his wife alone, she filed for divorce at Hyles insistence. He left nothing to his children. (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) Craig Sisson, 52 Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange. Another common characteristic of cults, Ross says, is that they use shame and some sort of exploitationfinancial, spiritual, or sexualto exercise control. The surrounding blocks bustled with activity. Tag Archives: Linda Hyles Murphrey Walking Away. In 2001, he died of complications from heart surgery at age 74. Never. We never double dated. Every time we talked he would ask me if we kissed, and I would say yes, and he would ask me real intimate questions about when we kissed and what happened when we kissed. He could destroy you., In fact, he nearly destroyed Busbys marriage. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. Former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Imperial, Missouri, 8. Where there is longstanding passionate romantic steam there is probably physical adultery, but certainly there is mental adultery. You are welcome to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. At first, Busby says, it really seemed like he wanted to help us. But soon Schaap was requesting numerous sessions with Busby alone. Within a couple of years, his flock had swelled to 4,000, earning Hyles a far-reaching reputation. It was simple, but daunting, and that was to keep all the secrets, and there were so many. The year was 1985. helped salvage what was left of my self-respect. But in the process of hollowing you out, he made you very weak., In her first one-on-one interview about the church, Hyless middle daughter, Linda Murphrey, a motivational speaker and coach in Southern California, remembers his followers as zombies who were willing to believe and obey whatever he said. She told me: He used to joke around about drinking the Kool-Aid, but that was never funny to me because I knew that those people really would have done anything he told them to do. We dont love anyone as much as you! Then he would call us Poopsy-Woopsy and give us pizza and money., To go off campus to buy pantyhoserequired wear for womenwe needed a special pass, Busby says, and had to have three chaperones. THE TESTIMONY OF JUDY NISCHIKS DAUGHTERLetter to Jack HylesFrom Judy (Nischik) JohnsonOctober 1, 1986As I am sure you are well aware, my husband and I are moving to the Los Angeles area this month. Second, the fear of man brings a snare. Mar 30, 2013. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. We could never even tell our best friends what went on in our home, because we might be the cause of the destruction of his ministry. When the word of God wasnt enough to entice kids into the buses, recruiters plied them with ice cream, goldfish, pony rides. He came and went as he pleased. Way of Lifes content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. 700 Children's Drive. We never double dated. Former pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, Convicted in 2006 of molesting a five-year-old boy, 2. Former principal at Liberty Baptist Academy, Lake Station, Indiana, Convicted in 2002 of crossing state lines with the intent to have sex with an 11-year-old girl, 7. Tonights guest preacher, Freddy Oh! I pulled onto Sibley Avenue and headed toward the church, a mammoth red-brick structure hard by the railroad tracks that takes up an entire city block and looks from some angles more like a big-box store than a house of worship. Jack Hyles set himself up as the saviour of fundamentalism and the pastor of pastors. Among the accusations was a systematic culture of cover-up: [Jack Hyles] negligently and carelessly has fostered . In 1972 came the crown jewel: Hyles-Anderson College, an unaccredited divinity school where would-be pastors are taught to export the Hyles approach to churches across the country. In an incredibly short amount of time I have healed much and think I would surprise even you with the strength I have gained. Traffic guards directed cars into a gravel parking lot. I attended at least 12 Pastors Schools. One of the girls told me and Daves sister that she was sleeping with him, and we told his dad. Forgive me, but the shock and awe of this latest scandal is only felt by those faithful who have turned a blind eye to the systemic corruption and sin that has plagued FBC for decades. His current job: pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Miami. But yes, there is most definitely a door. That thought prompted me to write you on my leaving, for it would be the pleasure of my life to have the entire world see in print my feelings on you, your establishment and your gross perversion of the sacred role of Pastor. Let Us Prey: Big Trouble at First Baptist Church, 2020 Chicago magazine / A Chicago Tribune Media Group website, 51 Life Changing Jack Hyles Quotes - Inspirationalweb.org, All the Lights Were Flashing Red and They Still Are Y'all Qaeda Blog, Thoughts On Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theorists, Inspired by the Thomas Chantry Trial | Here's the Joy. Probably, there are many complex factors involved - not just my dad was a jerk. . Anything., While reshaping the morals of his followers, Hyles also set about empire building, Independent Baptiststyle. These items have taken years to produce at enormous expense in time and money, and we need the income from the sale of these to help fund the ministry. She talks about growing up and finally leaving the cult at age 28. And Brennan says they have a point. Eddie Lapina is the one controlling the pastor. Jack Hyles was a personal friend. Read more about this topic: Jack Hyles Famous quotes containing the word children: There are still many, many victims out there, says Busby, herself involved with a group of former First Baptist members who have their own abuse stories. (The bus ministry still operates today.). Linda Hyles Murphrey, a motivational speaker, presented her story titled "From Cult to Courage" at a TEDx event, discussing her hardships as a child of Jack Hyles. [This was before Jack Schaap got caught in adultery with a teenager.] He would just repeatedly talk about sex and repeatedly talk about women, how they were dressed and body parts . I was so afraid, and the greater the secrets, the greater my fear, and the greater my determination to keep quiet. I mean when I was dating David, the books that Hyles has written on teenagers and dating, we never did one thing that he taught. Your statements that your investigation will reach far and wide, and that unbelievers will see at its conclusion that the church didn't try to hide wrong doing were encouraging.If you mean what you said, you have a lot of work to do.I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. He began calling himself an Independent Baptistuntethered to any dogma or ritual he didnt cotton to, unaccountable to any ruling body or person beyond himself. Subscribe for free today! And I was the one who was made to look like the bad guy in both instances. And, equally important, to attend the church-owned Hyles-Anderson College a couple of miles away, one of First Baptists biggest coffer fillers. There are some very good people still there whom I love dearly and who truly have hearts for the Lord but were deceived, Busby says. Never. Hyles, meanwhile, exerted extreme control over every aspect of his flocks livescontrol that members say they welcomed because they believed it was divinely inspired. You could see their family from our back door. What makes a church a cult? You could see their family from our back door. Her office had a door opening to Hyles' office, but there was a drape in front of it so that no one coming into her office could see it. Goal:Distributed by Way of Life Literature Inc., the Fundamental Baptist Information Service is an e-mail posting for Bible-believing Christians. . We thought to make him happy, we would hate her too. But even a saved man can deceive himself. Sadly, in your very heart of hearts you must be the most miserable, lonely person alive. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. I remember hearing once that it is not wise to put anything in writing that one would not want the entire world to see. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. Schaap did not respond to an interview request made through Porter County Jail. If a man doesnt want to believe something, he simply will not believe it. Actually, I have become quite a person with these many lessons of life under my belt and must admit that you were quite a teacher. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. You are a self-proclaimed giant, sensationalist, exhibitionist, and 'big-time spender' grasping for every expression of love, admiration and loyalty that you can get your filthy little hands on. The true believers of the ultrafundamentalist Independent Baptist movement were accustomed to Schaaps style. There was a door knob there, but it looked like part of the paneling, and there was a picture hanging there, so you really had to be studying to notice that there was a door there from his office. At this point, the sermons climax, Schaap would heave up a high-powered crossbow and fire an arrow into a red X painted on a fake rock a few feet from his pulpit. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. After three semesters at a school that from the outside seemed like it was blessed by God, once I was on the inside (as a student) however, nothing was as I expected. My dad pastored a church that evolved into a 50,000-member cult. I have listened to over 1,000 sermons on tape which he preached in his own pulpit in the 70s and early 80s. Members of a Bible-based group, for example, are made to believe that its a sin of pride for you to think for yourself, he says. The following is excerpted from Linda Murphreys testimony at the TEDxOjaiChange event in Ojai, California, April 5, 2012. Treated her terribly. He died a multi-millionaire. (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) When you do submit, be prepared to endure excruciating pain. They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. The case remains unsolved; Paul Ciolino, a former DCFS investigator now in private practice, says he is still pursuing leads. Ive never been able to say the c-wordand anyone from the church who reads this will take great offensebut thats what it was like.. When he walked out on the stage of those chapel services, youve never seen anything more over-the-top expressivethousands waving the Bible in the air, screaming, shouting, whistling., In the beginning, Schaaps preaching was standard Hyles: emotional denunciations of the flock for not doing enough to please God. There was no question who would succeed him: Hyles had been grooming his son-in-law Jack Schaap ever since his own sons prospects had plummeted. The fire-and-brimstone words of his mother burning in his head, Hyles then enrolled at East Texas Baptist College in Marshall, Texas, where he became a student pastor. He claimed that he had long heard reports that Nischik was immoral, but the following important observation must be taken into consideration in this matter:Throughout all of this, Hyles being privy to most if not all of it by his own testimony, Vic remained a member in good standing of the First Baptist Church, song leader in Dr. Hyles own adult Sunday School class, choir member, a key worker in the bus ministry (where the pickings would be delightful among love-starved, fatherless, teenage girls), a trustee of Hyles-Anderson College, a financial adviser and assistant who helped him obtain a $1,500,000 loan for the purchase of the Hyles-Anderson campus, as well as a respected deacon in the First Baptist Church! Joseph D. Combs, 63 They have a system where abusers and pedophiles can flourish, because you cant challenge the men, opines one. Thanks for what youre making me.. UPDATE: TEDS video has now been restored. Thats why people just fell all over each other to exalt [Hyles]., The level of devotionand controlsometimes strayed into the absurd. Every member was in complete obedience to my father. According to a blog called Fallen in Grace, written by someone identifying himself as David Hyles: I have no intention of defending myself. I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. He told us she was crazy. Then there were the practical matters that caused immediate red flags when we rolled up to Hyles-Anderson College in our overloaded U-Haul, during the oppressively hot Midwestern August, in 1983. It probably is one the most . I mean when I was dating David, the books that Hyles has written on teenagers and dating, we never did one thing that he taught. But I wondered: If my dad had been taken off his self-constructed throne long ago and people had known the full truth about who he was, perhaps Jack Schaap would never have been given the liberties, the complete lack of accountability, and the power that eventually led to his own demise. As the bible saysBe sure your sin will find you out.This is such a sad thing to have happened. About 1,000 students are currently enrolled, down from 2,700 in its heyday, according to admissions director Joe Peete, who gave a Chicago intern a tour of the premises in late October. The sister that Linda Murphrey mentions, is Jack Schaap's wife, Cindy. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. He really does have that kind of influence on those people.__________________Do I have any reason to believe that the Hyles dont love each other? 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