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. He was sentenced to a year of probation. 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. You are free to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. In 2001, he died of complications from heart surgery at age 74. It probably is one the most . His wife, Paula, divorced him. He pastored a church in Texas and was found to be having affairs with 14 different women. 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. Abused her. It was simple, but daunting, and that was to keep all the secrets, and there were so many. But yes, there is most definitely a door. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, ack Hyles is dead, but his life and testimony matters. Victoria says: August 20, 2012 at 12:35 pm. 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. With these thoughts expressed, I bathe myself of you and any influence you may have had on me in the past. If you have been helped and/or blessed by our material offerings can be mailed or made online with with Visa, Mastercard, Discover, or Paypal. Your idol is a false one. Nobody there ever drank Kool-Aid. Lowest rating: 1 . It was evident months later (and perfectly clear from where I sit, today) that this man was a sadist who derived pleasure from wielding control over peoples lives. He really does have that kind of influence on those people. He could destroy you., In fact, he nearly destroyed Busbys marriage. YES. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions Ive ever made since. After graduation, he set out to spread his particular brand of harsh theology. 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.. Established in 1974, Way of Life Literature is a fundamental Baptist preaching and publishing ministry based in Bethel Baptist Church, London, Ontario, of which Wilbert Unger is the founding Pastor. Only then, he would growl, will you become a polished shaft: one suitable for Gods bow. Former pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Bristol, Tennessee, Convicted in 2000 of kidnapping and abusing a minor, 5. You only know about him from a distance and years later. Hyles eventually abandoned the churchs Southern Baptist theology, saying it was too liberal. 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. 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. 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. . He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. We both graduated the same year and went to college. He got up in front of a staff meetingin front of the whole staffand shared all kinds of confidential stuff that never should have been shared. 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. 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the Lord. 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. Nischik twice tried to present the matter before the deacons of First Baptist, but he was shut down. 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! Then theres Chester Mulligan, a pastor who was ordained in Hammond by Hyles. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. 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. Third, men naturally tend to have their eyes on big men rather than on the Lord. Leverages . Back at First Baptist, prayers for Brother Schaap have been asked for and received. I about laughed in his face. I knew the man. Among his moves: announcing in October that fully a quarter of the churchs staff had been laid off. I was called the Antichrist and worse, Glover says. . It probably is one the most . 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. 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. Either by her own choosing or by inability or by unreasonableness, she never did meet those expectations. 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. Wearing a gray blazer, a red patterned tie, and dark pants, clutching a Bible in his left hand, he stopped in front of the TV cameras and planted a long kiss on his wife, Cindy, 52. These are sharable. People lined up to give cash to him and his only son, David, who was following in his footsteps. 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. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. boymom August 11, 2012 at 11:11 am Right back at ya, babe. The ushers, standing in back throughout the 90-minute service, occasionally whooped, like cowboys at a rodeo, at something they found particularly inspiring. Another egregious case was working its way through the courts around the same time. But neither did he dwell on compassion. He had affairs. Join Facebook to connect with Linda Murphy and others you may know. As soon as one First Baptistrelated scandal died down, another seemed to surface. 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. 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. Were there problems, particularly in the latter years? 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. In an open letter written last week and a news release issued Monday, Linda Murphrey apologized for not speaking out on what she called a cycle of church abuses at First Baptist Church of. He left everything to the organization, which my younger sister and her husband now lead. 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. 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. DeAnda, a trim 30-something who is spoken of as a candidate for the top job, made no references to sex. Facebook gives people the power. Using biblical passages as justification, Hyles preached that spanking was more than tolerable; it was a sacred duty. Hyles-Anderson College appears to be struggling, too. The preacher quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Abstain from all appearance of evil, but Hyles brazenly replied, My people need to trust me.. 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. All we ask is that you give proper credit. 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. 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. 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. And even to our adult years, he owned us. Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. 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. Busby is far from the only person to compare First Baptist to a cult. (He says he is not familiar with the details of First Baptist.) You could see their family from our back door. I anxiously await the day that I can say with all honesty, "They did the right thing".Judy Nischik JohnsonTHE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES DAUGHTER-IN-LAWThe following are excerpts fromDave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles PoloncoFirst wife of Jack Hyles son, DaveNovember 1, 1989Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? Sermons on the scandal rang out from pulpits across the country. 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. He left nothing to his children. He used his temper as a form of control.. Yes, then, I agree. According to his reading, men ruled absolutely. She was never charged with a crime, nor was Hyles. Brother Cloud lives in South Asia where he has been a church planting missionary since 1979. Jack Schaap will be sentenced to prison this week and, as I type this, I am weeping for him and for my sister. God will hold a metaphorical knife to your throat (as Schaap would illustrate by holding a steel blade against a twig the way an assailant might press on a jugular). In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. When I think of him sitting in a jail cell right now, my heart can hardly handle the ache. Within a couple of years, his flock had swelled to 4,000, earning Hyles a far-reaching reputation. I sat in the pew, gazing at the colonnaded pulpit, bright white under a spotlightthe spot where Schaap had given his infamous Polished Shaft sermon. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. (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.) If a man doesnt want to believe something, he simply will not believe it. 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. Hyles made the arrangements for and settled the terms of the divorce, and Hyles even paid for it! But all that needs to happen is for the right pastor to come alongi.e., a man with a strong, charismatic personality who is a leaderand boom! (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) He would just repeatedly talk about sex and repeatedly talk about women, how they were dressed and body parts . We never double dated. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions I've ever made since. One of Schaaps adult children, Kenneth, has mounted a letter-writing campaign to the judge. 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. 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. Hyles certainly had enemies -- back then, more so. 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. 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. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. Each of these testimonies agree in major points that should cause any Bible-believing preacher to reject Jack Hyles as a gross hypocrite who was unqualified to be a pastor and as a cult leader rather than a true shepherd under Jesus Christ. I attended at least 12 Pastors Schools. 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. Two days after arriving, I met the man, Brother Phil Sallie, who was in charge of workforce assistance. 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. I dont know if there is right now. It was irresistible: The great Jack Hyles, the man of God, whose schools had dating rules so strict that you could earn a demerit by accidentally touching the end of a pencil held by someone of the opposite sex, was committing adultery. 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. This is a moment when we need, as people of integrity, to be honest in all of this. Our primary goal with the FBIS is to provide material to assist preachers in the edification and protection of the churches. 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. 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. Menu. Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange | Stuff Fundies Like Current Events, People Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange August 6, 2012 Darrell 594 Comments Persnickety Polecat August 10, 2012 at 4:48 pm Ah, I see. Oh! 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