He was beyond the bounds of what was appropriate, says Brennan. When the word of God wasnt enough to entice kids into the buses, recruiters plied them with ice cream, goldfish, pony rides. Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. Id been told that there was assistance at Hyles-Anderson in finding a job. The effect was powerful, and it inevitably produced the desired result: swarms of male teenagers trance-walking their way to Schaap (pronounced Skop), ready to commit their lives to becoming pastors. According to his reading, men ruled absolutely. Be the first to contribute! 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. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. In June 1991, a Sunday school teacher accused A. V. Ballenger, a 57-year-old deacon who had spent two decades in the church, of fondling a seven-year-old girl. burn your building, penned another, Kristen Conner. Here are just eight of the men affiliated with First Baptist Church or educated at Hyles-Andersonmost of them pastorswho scattered around the nation committing crimes. In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. - www.wayoflife.org, Sharing Policy: The author of this book, Cindy Schaap, has now divorced her husband b/c he's in prison. 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. To critics, this effort appeared to be more about boosting the churchs attendance numbers than about saving souls. Don says: August 20, 2012 at 12:35 pm. With your own insecurities and personal failures as your driving force, you have quite simply played havoc with an entire church, some of my dearest friends and worst of all, my family. Dont get me wrongI certainly believe Jack Schaap is guilty of a crime and deserves punishment. He had affairs. I have listened to over 1,000 sermons on tape which he preached in his own pulpit in the 70s and early 80s. Maybe you could start your investigation there.Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. I have no spiritual respect for a preacher who defends Jack Hyles. A truly just man will. But to the congregation of First Baptist, it was all in a days preaching. 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 new pastor was soon kicked out after allegations that he had more than a dozen affairs with churchwomen, many of them married. This is why the atheist doesnt believe in God and why the devoted Roman Catholic doesnt believe his church is apostate. How true it is. I met him fresh out of high school. Brother Evans daughter was one of the ones that David had an affair with. Jack Hyles was a personal friend. Read more about this topic: Jack Hyles Famous quotes containing the word children: He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. Author: jimbaumerexperience.com. But those who have left, the followers who have tried to leave, the outsiders, even the media (it was on. The fear of man is as much a problem among preachers as it is among teenagers, and it makes a man weak and incapable of taking the proper stand for truth. 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. 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. Hyles thunderously denied the charges and denounced his accuser, Victor Nischik. Brother Cloud lives in South Asia where he has been a church planting missionary since 1979. His influence was vast. I attended at least 12 Pastors Schools. My brother sent this to me today. In the early 1980s, David Hyles, then in his 20s, was the youth pastor at First Baptist. But thats what it is. 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. Enough with the Jack hyles worship there Eddy. When Nischik confronted Hyles in 1985 and demanded that he leave his wife alone, she filed for divorce at Hyles insistence. The autopsy revealed trauma and numerous broken bones in various stages of healing. These are sharable. Further, this was not just one pastor. First, we see that refusal to separate from those who are immoral takes away the ability to protest their evil. Excrement was left on his doorstep. Log in to Reply. Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. Ohhhh! These are sharable. Hyles-Anderson College appears to be struggling, too. Jack Hyles set himself up as the saviour of fundamentalism and the pastor of pastors. Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. I was so afraid, and the greater the secrets, the greater my fear, and the greater my determination to keep quiet. For example, after Schaaps conviction, many church members blamed his victim as a temptress. The saddest realization is that it has all been under the guise of Christianity. Using biblical passages as justification, Hyles preached that spanking was more than tolerable; it was a sacred duty. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. He would write the Sunday lessons, and he would teach the teachers what he wanted them to say on the Wednesday night before the church service, says a former member. They need to know that there is help. Former pastor of Temecula Valley Baptist Church, Temecula, California, Convicted in 1999 of molesting a 14-year-old girl. 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! Its hard to believe. Nischik twice tried to present the matter before the deacons of First Baptist, but he was shut down. She was sickened and literally brokenhearted, she told me, when she heard about her brother-in-laws arest. 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. I about laughed in his face. They prostrated themselves on the football-field-wide bank of stairs there. How I emerged from such a pit of secret sin, manipulation, and hypocrisy with the slightest interest in my professed religion at all, I do not know. Hyles eventually abandoned the churchs Southern Baptist theology, saying it was too liberal. Former pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Bristol, Tennessee, Convicted in 2000 of kidnapping and abusing a minor, 5. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. 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. In 2001, he died of complications from heart surgery at age 74. So many hurting, scared, broken women who are so afraid, who dont know that theyre loved, who want grace, but they have only heard all the things they need to do. The culmination of many events in our lives brought us to the decision that we have made to move. What makes a church a cult? 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. 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. Nobody there ever drank Kool-Aid. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. Outbursts of anger, an unwillingness to brook criticism, and a penchant for ironfisted control were also part of his repertoire. Linda Hyles Murphrey | The Jim Baumer Experience Tag Archives: Linda Hyles Murphrey Walking Away Posted on September 8, 2018 Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. 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. Kindly, Linda Hyles Murphrey is a liar on many counts! You [sic] diatribes on your filthy forums serve Satans purpose well.). And even turned his own children against their mother. Notice the bones and the skull there, he said as he raised a cup into which he told the congregation he was going to pour poison. (Or would have, had Schaap not habitually railed against the evils of rock music.). Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, ack Hyles is dead, but his life and testimony matters. That boy had not one rule for his life. a system of secrecy in the church directing that matters of criminal violations not be reported to judicial authority for whom he openly preaches scorn, but to the church itself, meaning Jack Hyles. The case was settled for an undisclosed amount. No one could have imagined he would grow into the larger-than-life figure whom critics would dub the Godfather and others would consider the Chosen One. I dont know if there is right 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. Several people who grew up at First Baptist recall that parents took the instruction to heart. If we have our eyes on Christ and our own personal responsibilities before Him, we will not stumble when men fail us. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. Nevertheless, the story of First Baptist is epic enough to rival the most sordid Old Testament tale. This is a moment when we need, as people of integrity, to be honest in all of this. Third, men naturally tend to have their eyes on big men rather than on the Lord. You call him an adulterer. 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the Lord. 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. When the long-serving pastor of First Baptist Church in Hammond stepped down, Hyles got the call. By sifilings. In 1997, the parents of a mentally disabled 12-year-old sued First Baptist over what they alleged was a months-long pattern of rape and torture of their daughter. He promises that there will be no cover-up. I mean, absolutely, purely shocking. He could destroy you., In fact, he nearly destroyed Busbys marriage. When I think of him sitting in a jail cell right now, my heart can hardly handle the ache. I pity you for you will be experiencing the consequences of your actions for a very long time. Even Southern gospel music was sick and sinful and of the devil, says Busby. Maybe you could start your investigation there. He returned to the Chicago area, to Bolingbrook, moving in with a woman named Brenda Stevens. I told his dad about that. And I was the one who was made to look like the bad guy in both instances. They are right back in the same trap.. If we have our eyes on Christ and our own personal responsibilities before Him, we will not stumble when men fail us. And, says Kaifetz, he got a heros welcome. In an incredibly short amount of time I have healed much and think I would surprise even you with the strength I have gained. Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? I take my hat off to Linda Murprhey and applaud her moral courage. And now that Ive had a chance to step back and take a look at it from a distance, to think that I was sucked up in that really scares me. Founded in 1887, sleepy First Baptist had a mostly well-to-do congregation, many of whom commuted to jobs in Chicago. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. People lined up to give cash to him and his only son, David, who was following in his footsteps. 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.. William A. Eddie Lapina was witness to all of that. 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 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. In fact, the church had by then built its own grammar school, middle school, and high school. . Twisted scripture, Northwest Indiana-style. Its a continuous guilt trip, says McGuire. Incidentally, Paula and I have volumes of stories to swap, and it is interesting to see just how similar they are. Former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Imperial, Missouri, 8. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions I've ever made since. That decision and my close friendship with your ex-daughter-in-law (you remember her, don't you?) 3. Some of the abuse that Glover described in his bookas many others would later allegewas perpetrated by Hyless son. 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. 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. She has apparently allowed the stress of expectations to define her. It was simple, but daunting, and that was to keep all the secrets, and there were so many. Trisha LaCroix, who attended Hyles-Anderson College, says that she was disowned by her parentsFirst Baptist members bothin part for daring to wear pants. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. One of the things I know about organized religion is that reality regularly falls far short of the ideal. The sermon was called The Polished Shaft, and in the many times that Jack Schaap, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, had delivered it, it was the kind of showstopper that made him a rock star to his flock. Yellow buses lined back streets and alleys. The major points that these women who knew Jack Hyles agree on are these: that Hyles had a morally inappropriate relationship with a woman who was not his wife, that he lived a double life by deception, and that he was a cult leader who controlled his people as a lord and not as a godly shepherd. Previous Post FWOTW: 1611Skirts.com Next Post The Coup de Grce. Trisha LaCroix, the former Hyles-Anderson student and one of the sites administrators, says she has heard from hundreds of people who have shared stories of abusemental, physical, and sexual. We will see that Jack Hyless own daughter and Judy Nischiks daughter both believe that the two had an adulterous affair.Regardless of whether Hyles actually committed physical adultery, he was unquestionably guilty of a grossly improper relationship with a woman who was not his wife, and was thus disqualified to be a pastor. I wish God would . Tedd Butler, 47 I told his dad about that. But a cult, no. Dr. Linda Lowes, a physical therapist and researcher specializing in the assessment of neuromuscular dystrophies, is a principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy and a research associate professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. That is a strong statement. In his 1979 book How to Rear Infants, he wrote: The parent who spanks his child keeps him from going to hell.. Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. helped salvage what was left of my self-respect. In 1985, Stevenss 15-month-old son, Brent, was found lifeless in his crib. If a man doesnt want to believe something, he simply will not believe it. 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. (The previous are excerpts from Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco, first wife of Jack Hyles son Dave, November 1, 1989). The flock grew to include prominent business leaders such as Austin Jack DeCoster, the former egg mogul who by some estimates has given tens of millions to First Baptist and has two church buildings named for him. In an incredibly short amount of time I have healed much and think I would surprise even you with the strength I have gained. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. [Hyles] took your voice, he took your beliefs, he took your likes and dislikes and opinions, and he gave you his own. 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). Linda Murphrey, one of his daughters, recently told the Post-Tribune that she was 2 years old when her family moved from Texas to Indiana. You may also post parts of reports and/or entire reports to websites, blogs, etc as long as you give proper credit (citation). Why he lies about that I will never know. Way of Lifes content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. 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? We will see that Jack Hyless own daughter and Judy Nischiks daughter both believe that the two had an adulterous affair. 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. The bombshell exploded with apocalyptic force in May 1989. That is insane! 2. And the night we got married, he told everybody it was our first kiss! Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . The culmination of many events in our lives brought us to the decision that we have made to move. The wrath of Hyles and his supporters again rained down. So [authorities] have asked us to come in and conduct a thorough investigation. 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. Hyles made driving out these northern liberals his first priority. Ohh! 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. We never double dated. He lifted a stick in his left hand and a silver cloth in his right. On a single Sunday in 1975, more than 30,000 people attended services that began at 9:30 a.m. and concluded at 7:30 p.m., reported the Chicago Tribune, prompting Hyles to boast that he had created the worlds largest Sunday school.. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. Since Schaaps arrest, a Facebook page dedicated to supporting victims has popped up. Yes, then, I agree. Yet, you have failed with the most precious gifts God could have ever given you your wife, your children, and now, your ministry. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. 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 left nothing to his children. There were references to secret meetings with him in different places (Nischik, The Wizard of God: My Life With Jack Hyles, pp. Nischiks letter, which he later publicized, said in part, MY HOME WAS TAMPERED WITH AND MY MARRIAGE DELIBERATELY WRECKED BY JACK HYLES. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. Hyles certainly had enemies -- back then, more so. So, best of luck. 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. At first, Busby says, it really seemed like he wanted to help us. But soon Schaap was requesting numerous sessions with Busby alone. His dads philosophy is if I didnt see it I dont believe it. You see, he had taught us that the best way to please God was to please him, because he was Gods man. Linda is Jack Hyles daughter, and it appears that the hypocrisy she witnessed has driven her into the arms of skepticism, which is very sad, but it was not necessary. Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience. My father tried desperately to 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. Mar 20 2013. Later Hyles paid to have a room built for Vic over the garage, where he lived without being allowed any conjugal relationship with his wife. Jack Hyles set himself up as the saviour of fundamentalism and the pastor of pastors. 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. I about laughed in his face. In 1971, Hyles, without his wife, took Jennie and three other women to Hawaii and stayed in the same hotel, being the only male in the group. Former pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, Convicted in 2006 of molesting a five-year-old boy, 2. . Oh yes, we doooo. And even to our adult years, he owned us. After she and her husband hit a rocky patch, they turned to Schaap for counseling. . Perhaps the saddest of all her statements was that the rest of her family will not likely admit that they were wrong. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. Speaker: Linda Hyles Murphrey Date: April 5, 2012 Event: TEDx Conference Continuity 1. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. Sadly, in your very heart of hearts you must be the most miserable, lonely person alive. His wife, Paula, divorced him. Rev. This story has been revised to reflect the following: Correction on 12.11.12: The print version of this story, appearing in the January 2013 issue of Chicago, incorrectly stated that former First Baptist Church member Julie Silvestrone Busby received marriage counseling from Schaap in 2004 and 2009. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. , because his influence is so pervasive even to this day. But it was wildly effective, says Kaifetz, in part because Hyles made soul winning a key criterion for moving up the church ladder orif you were a manfor being awarded a coveted staff job. Linda Hyles Murphrey on the cult her father created. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. If it were not so, the Bible would not thrice warn in the New Testament Epistles, Be not deceived.. 57, 58). By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. 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