My understanding is that with all the stuff going on theyve done something with it. Though the sermons werent nearly as sexual in the beginning, says Schaaps former editor, he was seductive. He organized media boycotts and wrote letters savaging the local papers for reprinting filth. Hundreds in his flock rose to his defense. First, we see that refusal to separate from those who are immoral takes away the ability to protest their evil. A strategic and highly accomplished executive with vast expertise in brand management, business development, digital transformation, P&L management, and relationship management. Andy Beith, 40 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. According to Kaifetz, When a guy like Hyles says, This is Gods will for your life, you just say, Well, I guess it is., One area in which Hylesa father of fourexerted particular control was child rearing. Nevertheless, the story of First Baptist is epic enough to rival the most sordid Old Testament tale. Hyles made driving out these northern liberals his first priority. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigated, but the cause of death could not be determined. I remember hearing once that it is not wise to put anything in writing that one would not want the entire world to see. At Ballengers sentencing hearingdelayed three years by appeals, during which time he resumed working in the bus ministrytwo women testified that Ballenger also molested them when they were young. He taught us that to please him we had to keep all the secrets. What I cant comprehend is telling a lie that so many people know is a lie. Sincerely,(Signed Judy Johnson). In the beginning1959, in this caseJack Hyles arrived at the First Baptist Church of Hammond as a skinny, charismatic Bible thumper with a Southern-fried drawl and a couple of cheap suits. 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. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. 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. Either by her own choosing or by inability or by unreasonableness, she never did meet those expectations. For a pastor to develop a romantic relationship with a church member is gross, gross abuse of his position and of his solemn marital vows. For a pastor to develop a romantic relationship with a church member is gross, gross abuse of his position and of his solemn marital vows. And the night we got married, he told everybody it was our first kiss! The items have taken years to produce at enormous expense in time and money, and we use the income from sales to help fund the ministry. Their offices each had a door opening to the hallway as well as the private door connecting the two rooms. Dr. Hyles lying was blatant just like Davids. If Hyles wanted him to drink, he would. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. 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. He told us she was crazy. 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 I dont know if there is right now. But thats what it is. He did what he wanted to do. The bravest voices lifted against him were the voices of women, the very women who had been hurt by this mans ungodly actions, women who showed themselves stronger than a huge number of weak-kneed, ostrich-like pastors. I attended at least 12 Pastors Schools. The culmination of many events in our lives brought us to the decision that we have made to move. . 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. Third, men naturally tend to have their eyes on big men rather than on the Lord. Then theres Chester Mulligan, a pastor who was ordained in Hammond by Hyles. You could still see it from his office. The stick was displeasing God, a message hammered home virtually every Sunday. So yes, he did know. 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. Every member was in complete obedience to my father. Thats why people just fell all over each other to exalt [Hyles]., The level of devotionand controlsometimes strayed into the absurd. What I cant comprehend is telling a lie that so many people know is a lie. (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) For the benefit of any doubters, Hyles demonstrated his power in the middle of a sermon one Sunday. The site has more than 1,200 members, she adds. 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. They are right back in the same trap.. 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. 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. The preacher quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Abstain from all appearance of evil, but Hyles brazenly replied, My people need to trust me.. 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. Enough with the Jack hyles worship there Eddy. . But thats what it is. For information see: www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. Maybe you could start your investigation there.Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. One of the girls told me and Daves sister that she was sleeping with him, and we told his dad. As the bible saysBe sure your sin will find you out.This is such a sad thing to have happened. 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. 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. I dont care how controlling Jack Schaap was. 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. He was so interested in mine and Davids personal relationship. The answer is definitely yes and there are a hundred people who know that. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. 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. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. The preacher quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Abstain from all appearance of evil, but Hyles brazenly replied, My people need to trust me.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.In a scene right out of some cheap romance novel, Hyles arranged for Vic Nischik to sleep in the basement of his own house and to pay rent to Jennie. 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. I pity you for you will be experiencing the consequences of your actions for a very long time. [This was before Jack Schaap got caught in adultery with a teenager.] You could see their family from our back door. Former pastor of Temecula Valley Baptist Church, Temecula, California, Convicted in 1999 of molesting a 14-year-old girl. Thanks for what youre making me.. Victoria At first, Busby says, it really seemed like he wanted to help us. But soon Schaap was requesting numerous sessions with Busby alone. But a cult, no. William A. (The previous are excerpts from Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco, first wife of Jack Hyles son Dave, November 1, 1989). 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. Yellow buses lined back streets and alleys. 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. Multiple websites tracking the First Baptist Church of Hammond have identified more than a dozen men with ties to the churchmany of whom graduated from its college, Hyles-Anderson, or its annual Pastors Schoolswho fanned out around the country, preaching at their own churches and racking up a string of arrests and civil lawsuits, including physical abuse of minors, sexual molestation, and rape. We thought to make him happy, we would hate her too. Our pastor back home had given us a point of contact. Disillusioned, he wrote Fundamental Seduction: The Jack Hyles Case. He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. His dads philosophy is if I didnt see it I dont believe it. Today her name is Linda Murphrey and it appears from this testimony that she has rejected biblical Christianity because of the hypocrisy she witnessed growing up in the home of the man who said God had given him "the steering wheel of fundamentalism" and who boasted that his church "was the greatest church in the history of Christianity." Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. Former pastor of Antioch Baptist Academy, Warren, Michigan, Convicted in 2011 of sexually assaulting a minor, 3. 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. 25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience. Author: jimbaumerexperience.com. 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. 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. . I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. Former pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, Convicted in 2006 of molesting a five-year-old boy, 2. After Nischik went public with the dirty business, Hyles tried to blacken the mans reputation and turn attention away from his own deeds in a self-serving letter he mailed to 60,000 pastors. 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. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. Be the first to contribute! But yes, there is most definitely a door. 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. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. All we ask is that you give proper credit. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. . Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. 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. I anxiously await the day that I can say with all honesty, "They did the right thing". Yet, you have failed with the most precious gifts God could have ever given you your wife, your children, and now, your ministry. Several people who grew up at First Baptist recall that parents took the instruction to heart. . 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. THE TRUTH is that all the property belonged solely to the First Baptist Church of Hammond. 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. That decision and my close friendship with your ex-daughter-in-law (you remember her, don't you?) My dad pastored a church that evolved into a 50,000-member cult. He never had restrictions on his life. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. Hyles thunderously denied the charges and denounced his accuser, Victor Nischik. And even to our adult years, he owned us. For over fifteen years I have watched and learned much from the circus that you have performed with the lives of those I love most in the world. 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. Voyle Glover, an attorney and longtime church member, was not among the defenders. 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. Stevens didnt show. And they prayed. These are sharable. THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES DAUGHTER-IN-LAW, Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco. 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. 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. Kindly, Linda Hyles Murphrey is a liar on many counts! Eddie Lapina was witness to all of that. 3. Infancy. He told people to shun me., Leaving First Baptist was in Busbys opinion like leaving a cult. - Receive these reports by email 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 about laughed in his face. Way of Lifes content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. Log in to Reply. And the night we got married, he told everybody it was our first kiss! 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. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. 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. I knew the man. When you do submit, be prepared to endure excruciating pain. Whispers began that he was having an affair with the daughter of a high-level administrator at Hyles-Anderson College. He soon took it upon himself to arrange marriages. I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. In 1985, Stevenss 15-month-old son, Brent, was found lifeless in his crib. He died a multi-millionaire. . First Baptist had become a nationwide phenomenon, dubbed a superchurch by Time. In a scene right out of some cheap romance novel, Hyles arranged for Vic Nischik to sleep in the basement of his own house and to pay rent to Jennie. He divorced his wife and married one of the 14. Hyles lied about the existence of the door, saying, There IS no door, which was technically true at the time, since it had been removed after the matter became public! And there is grace.. My older brother became another version of my father. 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.. (She left the church in 2010 after her husband, a prominent member of the congregation, was caught having sexual relationships with underage girls. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. Vic Nischik testified:These were passionate love notes from Jack Hyles to Jennie, all signed Your aching guy, Jack! They expressed undying love, telling Jennie that she was the only woman he loved. I knew the man first hand. If we have our eyes on Christ and our own personal responsibilities before Him, we will not stumble when men fail us. In fact, he has sat at my table in my home. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. Only then, he would growl, will you become a polished shaft: one suitable for Gods bow. There was definitely a door between their offices [Jack Hyles and Jenny Nischiks offices]. You had to really look. It probably is one the most . Busby is far from the only person to compare First Baptist to a cult. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. Perhaps the saddest of all her statements was that the rest of her family will not likely admit that they were wrong. The blows should be painful and should last . The ushers, standing in back throughout the 90-minute service, occasionally whooped, like cowboys at a rodeo, at something they found particularly inspiring. 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. HE STOLE MY WIFE, HER LOYALTY AND AFFECTION, and when the divorce hung in balance, unilaterally met with the two attorneys and negotiated the divorce settlement.After Nischik went public with the dirty business, Hyles tried to blacken the mans reputation and turn attention away from his own deeds in a self-serving letter he mailed to 60,000 pastors. When he tried to read a three-page letter, Hyles cried out, You are trying to destroy fundamentalism! and the deacons chimed in by shouting the poor man down. Brother Evans daughter was one of the ones that David had an affair with. 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. in graphic detail, recalls Tom Brennan, who attended the church for six years and is now an Independent Baptist pastor at Maplewood Bible Baptist Church in Chicago. First, there was the expectation that the school provided . We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. They prostrated themselves on the football-field-wide bank of stairs there. For over fifteen years I have watched and learned much from the circus that you have performed with the lives of those I love most in the world. . . He moved the bottom of the stick near his groin and angled it away from himself. Linda Hyles Murphrey's testimony is a clear indication of just how wounded those closest to Jack Hyles can be. He hated my mom. Treated her terribly. He taught us that to please him we had to keep all the secrets. But to the congregation of First Baptist, it was all in a days preaching. He could destroy you., In fact, he nearly destroyed Busbys marriage. He moved him to another church where he was found to have had 17 affairs with different women, and he just recreated what he had seen my dad live. 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. Schaap did not respond to an interview request made through Porter County Jail. Linda. I believe First Baptist Church gradually evolved into a cult that was in complete idolatry of my father and, after his death, complete idolatry of Jack Schaap, she says. Hyles eventually abandoned the churchs Southern Baptist theology, saying it was too liberal. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. The influx of cash enabled First Baptist to buy large parcels of real estate around Hammondand enabled Hyles to buy loyalty. Ohhhh! I am reminded of the lessons of Proverbs 29:24-27 --, Whoso is partner with a thief hateth his own soul: he heareth cursing, and bewrayeth it not. And even turned his own children against their mother. 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). 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. . 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 is also an outrage that both Hyles and Schaap were allowed by the church leadership to have such power over a local church. 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. Former pastor of First Baptist Church, Culpeper, Virginia, Convicted in 2006 of cruelty to children and assault and battery, 4. . As MinistryWatch reported in December, Jack Hyles' son, David Hyles, allegedly followed in his father's footsteps, and is now facing charges from women who claim he repeatedly raped them. And, equally important, to attend the church-owned Hyles-Anderson College a couple of miles away, one of First Baptists biggest coffer fillers. Spanking should be deliberate and last at least ten or fifteen minutes, he continued. 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. Nischiks letter, which he later publicized, said in part,MY HOME WAS TAMPERED WITH AND MY MARRIAGE DELIBERATELY WRECKED BY JACK HYLES. Its hard to believe. The answer is definitely yes and there are a hundred people who know that. In 2001, he died of complications from heart surgery at age 74. Now if I walked up to you tonight and I said to you, Ive got something I want you to drink . So [authorities] have asked us to come in and conduct a thorough investigation. Nobody there ever drank Kool-Aid. Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange. And it shall be done., Critics are skeptical. Older Comments. support@wayoflife.org. When the long-serving pastor of First Baptist Church in Hammond stepped down, Hyles got the call. The year was 1985. Goal:Distributed by Way of Life Literature Inc., the Fundamental Baptist Information Service is an e-mail posting for Bible-believing Christians. Your idol is a false one. Traffic guards directed cars into a gravel parking lot. 594 thoughts on "Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange" Comment navigation. 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. Yet they would drop us off in rough neighborhoods for eight hours on our own to go soul winning.. Eddie Lapina, a Hyles-trained church fixture, is acting as interim pastor while a committee searches for Schaaps replacement. The surrounding blocks bustled with activity. On a cool Sunday evening in mid-October, I drove to Hammond to sit in on a First Baptist service. Among his moves: announcing in October that fully a quarter of the churchs staff had been laid off. 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. My father tried desperately to cover it up. Virtually no one would marry without Hyless blessing, several former church members say. 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. Sadly, in your very heart of hearts you must be the most miserable, lonely person alive. After Hyles son-in-law, Jack Schaap, got caught in an adulterous relationship with a teenager recently, Judy sent the following e-mail to David Gibbs, who is helping the church at this time: From: Judy (Nischik) JohnsonTo: Info@christianlaw.orgDate: Monday, August 6, 2012Mr. My older brother became another version of my father. burn your building, penned another, Kristen Conner. We hated her. 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 . What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? Another common characteristic of cults, Ross says, is that they use shame and some sort of exploitationfinancial, spiritual, or sexualto exercise control. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. And they still perpetuate his legacy: the strict rules, the undying loyalty, and they still try to keep all the secrets (Linda Murphreys testimony at the TEDxOjaiChange event in Ojai, California, April 5, 2012). Probably, there are many complex factors involved - not just my dad was a jerk. On the basis of Dr. Hyles own admissions, I rest my case about the massive cover-up of sin under his leadership. Hyles lied about the existence of the door, saying, There IS no door, which was technically true at the time, since it had been removed after the matter became public! Up until she was about 10, "things seemed very. Including Linda Murphrey, Hyless daughter. Founded in 1887, sleepy First Baptist had a mostly well-to-do congregation, many of whom commuted to jobs in Chicago. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. 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. He promises that there will be no cover-up. He had affairs. How true it is. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. He was beyond the bounds of what was appropriate, says Brennan. jack hyles jack schaap Linda Murphrey TED Post navigation. Where there is longstanding passionate romantic steam there is probably physical adultery, but certainly there is mental adultery. A lot of discretionary income flowed through his hands, says a former church member. Why he lies about that I will never know. Early in my life I learned that there was one thing that could kill a festive mood at a dinner party. He would just repeatedly talk about sex and repeatedly talk about women, how they were dressed and body parts . And even to our adult years, he owned us. Apr 8, 2013. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open. The spokesman for the church, Eddie Wilson, did not return numerous calls requesting an interview. 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