I emphatically and strongly disagree with those who would assert that the church is a cult, he says. 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. Theyre being shamed about how horrible they are. And there is grace.. These are sharable. 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. 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!). Thats why people just fell all over each other to exalt [Hyles]., The level of devotionand controlsometimes strayed into the absurd. According to news reports, in March 1999 Stevens (by this time Hyless wife) told police that she mistakenly ran over the five-year-old, Jack David, who had rolled out the door of her car. And even to our adult years, he owned us. Way of Life's content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. If you dont see it, dont believe it. Tag Archives: Linda Hyles Murphrey Walking Away. I have sat in his office and he in mine. 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. 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. They prostrated themselves on the football-field-wide bank of stairs there. Hyles made the arrangements for and settled the terms of the divorce, and Hyles even paid for it! Open Letter to First Baptist Church Hammond Indiana. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. 25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. ________________There was definitely a door between their offices [Jack Hyles and Jenny Nischiks offices]. First Baptist had become a nationwide phenomenon, dubbed a superchurch by Time. What was going on [at First Baptist] was kind of like a process of hollowing out the followers and repopulating them with yourself, says Schaaps former editor. 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. When authorities were called, McGuire says, Hyles told the girls parents how to avoid arrest. Lowest rating: 1 . They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. By the time he took charge of the 44-member Miller Road Baptist Church in Garland, Texas, in 1952, he was a full-fledged, fire-breathing, stem-winding spellbinder, blessed with a booming preachers voice, a savants recall of the Bible, and a charisma that could almost magically levitate people from their seats to surrender their lives to the Savior. Money poured into the church in other ways: the tithes collected each Sunday, a book-publishing arm, and various conferences and seminars. 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. He pastored a church in Texas and was found to be having affairs with 14 different women. Kerry Martin, 56 The 1990 book details the affair and many other misdeeds, including a Watergate-like coverup of affairs and sexual abuse at First Baptist. She is the daughter of Jack Hyles (former pastor of the Independent Fundamental Baptist megachurch, First Baptist Hammond) and talks about her escape from that cult (her word, not mine). On a cool Sunday evening in mid-October, I drove to Hammond to sit in on a First Baptist service. Oh! In the early 1980s, David Hyles, then in his 20s, was the youth pastor at First Baptist. Either by her own choosing or by inability or by unreasonableness, she never did meet those expectations. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. Linda Hyles Murphrey's testimony is a clear indication of just how wounded those closest to Jack Hyles can be. It was simple, but daunting, and that was to keep all the secrets, and there were so many. 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. His daughter, Linda Hyles Murphrey, recalls her mother and father arguing over his many affairs with church members. Instead, she continues, he was allowed and encouraged to perpetuate what my father began: idolatry, secrecy, adultery, and a harshly punitive culture based on an endless list of legalistic rules that served the man of God. Not Godor at least not a God that I would want to know.. Former pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, Convicted in 2006 of molesting a five-year-old boy, 2. The approach resonated deeply with rural Texans longing for a return to old-time religion. Things that we encourage you to share include the audio sermons, video presentations, O Timothy magazine, and the hundreds of Fundamental Baptist Information Service (FBIS) articles. Traffic guards directed cars into a gravel parking lot. ..and stay on our knees in prayer, because Satan is just waiting for the opportunity to strike. (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) But yes, there is most definitely a door. Hyles eventually abandoned the churchs Southern Baptist theology, saying it was too liberal. Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? Maybe you could start your investigation there.Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. Virtually no one would marry without Hyless blessing, several former church members say. I about laughed in his face. Things we do not want copied and redistributed are items like the Fundamental Baptist Digital Library, the print and eBook editions of our books, etc. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. 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. Jack Hyles was a personal friend. Kindly, Linda Hyles Murphrey is a liar on many counts! The church I grew up in was heavily intertwined w/ Hyles . I pity you for you will be experiencing the consequences of your actions for a very long time. This is what happens to preachers who continue to associate with men like Hyles and their defenders. Christopher Settlemoir, 29 I, too, witnessed a lot of hypocrisy growing up in a Baptist church, but my unbelief and rebellion was my own fault and not something I could blame on others. If we have our eyes on Christ and our own personal responsibilities before Him, we will not stumble when men fail us. Never. With Americas supposed Bible-believing preachers lying like this by abusing the tenses of verbs, it is no wonder that the president of the country testified under oath some that it depends on what the definition of IS is.Various other people testified of the existence of the door, including Dave Hyles wife and a preacher who was long associated with Hyles but left in 1988 because he could no longer tolerate the deception and who wrote to Robert Sumner about the matter in 1989. Linda Murphrey. Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. And his dad would get up and preach this and browbeat everybody to death to do their kids that way, but David didnt have to live that way. - www.wayoflife.org, Sharing Policy: Oh yes, we doooo. It operated and still operates under the guise of an independent fundamental Baptist church. 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. Evaluate 3 (13395 Ratings) Top rated: 3 . Tedd Butler, 47 And his dad would get up and preach this and browbeat everybody to death to do their kids that way, but David didnt have to live that way. David was a blatant liar. I remember hearing once that it is not wise to put anything in writing that one would not want the entire world to see. The churchs $27 million, 7,500-capacity auditorium, which once strained to fit the congregation, was dotted with empty patches. For example, after Schaaps conviction, many church members blamed his victim as a temptress. Another common characteristic of cults, Ross says, is that they use shame and some sort of exploitationfinancial, spiritual, or sexualto exercise control. Facebook gives people the power. I pity you for you will be experiencing the consequences of your actions for a very long time. As I am sure you are well aware, my husband and I are moving to the Los Angeles area this month. It is also an outrage that both Hyles and Schaap were allowed by the church leadership to have such power over a local church. 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. . In facthe turned to Johnny Colsten, one of the men on the stage with himId like for you, if you dont mind, to drink this.. It really is astonishing, says Jeri Massi, a researcher from Raleigh, North Carolina, who has been documenting the sexual abuse of children in Christian fundamentalism since 2001. Men were to wear jackets and ties and close-cropped hair. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. Things that we encourage you to share include the audio sermons, video presentations, O Timothy magazine, and the hundreds of Fundamental Baptist Information Service (FBIS) articles. He soon took it upon himself to arrange marriages. I entered a bit after the 6 p.m. start time, ducked past the crimson-coated ushers, and found a seat in what I eventually realized was the section reserved for the deaf. I attended at least 12 Pastors Schools. 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. Then, his voice dropping to a guttural whisper, he said, Oh, oh, God. Add a bio, trivia, and more. Jack Hyles set himself up as the saviour of fundamentalism and the pastor of pastors. Scandal followed the younger Hyles. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. Four years ago, he pleaded guilty to felony stalking of a 14-year-old girl while pastor of Central Baptist Church in East Chicago. He got five years in prison. The wickedness, the heartbreak, the ruining of lives. Examples from First Baptist take in everything: pedophilia, violence, defamation of the innocent to protect the guilty, heresies against Christian doctrine, defiance against lawful authority. He left nothing to his children. You are free to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. "For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. He died a multi-millionaire. In this, his views were severe unto merciless. 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. We never double dated. I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. Backed into a corner by a he-goes-or-I-go ultimatum from the administrator, sources say, Hyles arranged for his son to take over as pastor at his old church, Miller Road Baptist in Texas. . 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. Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . Former pastor of Antioch Baptist Academy, Warren, Michigan, Convicted in 2011 of sexually assaulting a minor, 3. Former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Imperial, Missouri, 8. . His preaching had gotten soI hesitate to use the word pornographic. It was so vulgar sometimes that it was just a grief to my spirit., Challenging Schaap, Busby says, was not an option: He had absolute power. Treated her terribly. The following is excerpted from Linda Murphreys testimony at the TEDxOjaiChange event in Ojai, California, April 5, 2012. He never had restrictions on his life. As to getting to the truth of the issue of Jack Hyles, lets not listen to his deacons, of whom he bragged publicly that they would have jumped off a bridge if he told them to do so. This, of course, was well after his son, Dave, had wreaked havoc on the youth department and had moved on to terrorize more than one church in Texas. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. He hated my mom. Jack Hyles wouldnt live to see Mulligans conviction. With God's help, I will make my life in California everything that He would have it be and, unlike you, will not fall. He told us she was crazy. 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. Nischiks letter, which he later publicized, said in part, MY HOME WAS TAMPERED WITH AND MY MARRIAGE DELIBERATELY WRECKED BY JACK HYLES. He was so interested in mine and Davids personal relationship. I dont know if there is right now. However, the same deacons who investigated and fired Jack Schapp also investigated the charges of adultery against Jack Hyles and exonerated him.. 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. 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. 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. Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. Things we do not want copied and distributed are "Store" items like the Fundamental Baptist Digital Library, print editions of our books, electronic editions of the books that we sell, the videos that we sell, etc. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. I would literally vomit before some of our meetings it got so bad., When the couple eventually left the church, Schaap turned on her, Busby says. Yet, you have failed with the most precious gifts God could have ever given you your wife, your children, and now, your ministry. 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.So, best of luck. The true believers of the ultrafundamentalist Independent Baptist movement were accustomed to Schaaps style. Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. Theres a world of difference between a cult of personality and a cult. Up until she was about 10, "things seemed very. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. The saddest realization is that it has all been under the guise of Christianity. I wish God would . 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. One night, Jack Hyles sat three of his four children down the eldest was away at college and told them he had to leave the home "because of the way your mom is acting," Murphrey recalled. 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. I just watched the video on the First Baptist Church website where you, Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina discussed the church's current scandal. 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. No person has perfect knowledge or perfect memory about events that occurred years in the past, and it is always possible to quibble about some detail of someones story, as any court trial would demonstrate. Mar 20 2013. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. 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. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. He did what he wanted to do. 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. Summary: Articles about Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. 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. Maybe you could start your investigation there. And the night we got married, he told everybody it was our first kiss! Always interesting to hear a different perspective. Yes, then, I agree. Beatings would last endlessly, it seemed, says Mary Jo McGuire, 45, a corporate trainer in Colorado whose father was a deacon in the church. Eddie Lapina was witness to all of that. These are not sharable. This is a truly sad case. Be the first to contribute! If the members of the congregation were heartbroken about what was happening to their church, they didnt show it on this night. (She left the church in 2010 after her husband, a prominent member of the congregation, was caught having sexual relationships with underage girls. 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. Two days after arriving, I met the man, Brother Phil Sallie, who was in charge of workforce assistance. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. absolute authoritarian leader who defines the group; a thought program that includes control of the environment, control of information, and people subordinating themselves and their feelings to the demands of the leader; and a lack of accountability for the head of the group. He divorced his wife and married one of the 14. I literally feared for my very life if I ever told what went on in our home, for fear that it would hurt his ministry. THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco. Back at First Baptist, prayers for Brother Schaap have been asked for and received. I was called the Antichrist and worse, Glover says. 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.. I grieve for them.. And Brennan says they have a point. Evidence was provided by Vic Nischik, a long-time deacon at First Baptist, proving that Jack Hyles stole the affection of his wife (Hyles secretary), even if he didnt actually commit physical adultery with her. Charles V. Shifflett, 61 In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. And I was the one who was made to look like the bad guy in both instances. Subscribe for free today! We hated her. I dont care how controlling Jack Schaap was. I dont care how overbearing he was. Eddie Lapina, a Hyles-trained church fixture, is acting as interim pastor while a committee searches for Schaaps replacement. My understanding is that with all the stuff going on theyve done something with it. You are welcome to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. All we ask is that you give proper credit. She was sickened and literally brokenhearted, she told me, when she heard about her brother-in-laws arest. 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