We thought to make him happy, we would hate her too. 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. To the hundreds of people who posted comments under a YouTube video of the event, the lack of reaction is as shocking as Schaaps sermon itself. I felt like I had one main responsibility as a child. Having been an independent fundamental Baptist preacher for nearly 40 years, I am convinced that Bigism and Big-Manism is a major disease. 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. They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. When you do submit, be prepared to endure excruciating pain. What he was doing was unmistakable: simulating masturbation, in front of thousands of children, in the middle of a church service. Local papers, from the Hammond Times to the Chicago Tribune, featured the story, as did the tabloid TV news show A Current Affair. 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. If you dont see it, dont believe it. It is easy to sit decades later and call that ministry a cult. 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. 594 thoughts on "Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange" Hyles eventually abandoned the churchs Southern Baptist theology, saying it was too liberal. ..and stay on our knees in prayer, because Satan is just waiting for the opportunity to strike. You had to really look. That is insane! In passing, it is interesting to note that Hyles evidence against Vic is loose, unsubstantiated, secondhand, hearsay gossip from unnamed sources (Robert Sumner. Early in my life I learned that there was one thing that could kill a festive mood at a dinner party. 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. 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. He could destroy you., In fact, he nearly destroyed Busbys marriage. 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. 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 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. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. These are sharable. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? First, there was the expectation that the school provided . She claims that Dr. Hyles died after having amassed $80 million dollars worth of real-estate buildings at the church. 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the Lord. My 21-year-old radar told me he was a fraud. She talks about growing up and finally leaving the cult at age 28. Thanks for what youre making me.. Stevens didnt show. . The year was 1985. - Receive these reports by email 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. Accordingly, he ditched the churchs denominational affiliation with the mainline American Baptist Convention, freeing him to transplant the authoritarian, hellfire-and-damnation theology he had honed in Texas. About. But those who have left, the followers who have tried to leave, the outsiders, even the media (it was on 20/20 last year) recognize that it is clearly a cult. 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. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. He had affairs. All we ask is that you give proper credit. She left the church after alleging that Schaap behaved inappropriately during marriage counseling sessions in 2004 through 2009. There should have been a cry against him from every Bible-believing Baptist pulpit in America. 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. 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 was sentenced to a year of probation. That boy had not one rule for his life. At first, Busby says, it really seemed like he wanted to help us. But soon Schaap was requesting numerous sessions with Busby alone. He left nothing to his children. What makes a church a cult? Questions? 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. How true it is. The case remains unsolved; Paul Ciolino, a former DCFS investigator now in private practice, says he is still pursuing leads. His dads philosophy is if I didnt see it I dont believe it. 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. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. Head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut, mouth gaping, he began rubbing the shaft rapidly with the cloth, up and down, up and down. 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. These are not sharable. 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. Oh! If he wasnt scolding his flock for not living up to Gods demands (tithing, volunteering, soul winning), he was delivering R-rated sermons that, for example, likened the Lords Supper to having sex with Jesus Christ. 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). 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. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. Linda Murphrey: "The lies we had to keep were 'for the sake of the ministry'". Charles V. Shifflett, 61 Lowest rating: 1 . 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. Another philosophy of his is that he doesnt want to hear anything, because then he doesnt have to deal with it. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. 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 culmination of many events in our lives brought us to the decision that we have made to move. He lifted a stick in his left hand and a silver cloth in his right. Hyles thunderously denied the charges and denounced his accuser, Victor Nischik. support@wayoflife.org. Tag Archives: Linda Hyles Murphrey Walking Away. A lot of discretionary income flowed through his hands, says a former church member. . 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. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. The churchs $27 million, 7,500-capacity auditorium, which once strained to fit the congregation, was dotted with empty patches. They prostrated themselves on the football-field-wide bank of stairs there. And my dad did nothing but cover it up. But Schaap is not simply one of those rogue evangelists who thunders against the evils of forbidden sex while indulging in it himself. 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. According to his reading, men ruled absolutely. Hyles made driving out these northern liberals his first priority. The following is excerpted from Linda Murphreys testimony at the TEDxOjaiChange event in Ojai, California, April 5, 2012. I felt like I had one main responsibility as a child. Hyles made the arrangements for and settled the terms of the divorce, and Hyles even paid for it! . 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.. , because his influence is so pervasive even to this day. Third, men naturally tend to have their eyes on big men rather than on the Lord. 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. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. 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. Add a bio, trivia, and more. Spanking should be deliberate and last at least ten or fifteen minutes, he continued. The bombshell exploded with apocalyptic force in May 1989. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. People lined up to give cash to him and his only son, David, who was following in his footsteps. 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.. I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. 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. We will see that Jack Hyless own daughter and Judy Nischiks daughter both believe that the two had an adulterous affair. A row of white-coated high-ranking churchmen seated behind Schaap watched in silence. 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. Maybe you could start your investigation there.Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. 2012-2022 Way of Life Literature Inc. v12.19.22, David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. Whatever awkwardness he may have had soon gave way to his extraordinary oratorical gifts. Why he lies about that I will never know. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. Within a couple of years, his flock had swelled to 4,000, earning Hyles a far-reaching reputation. I knew the man first hand. As I am sure you are well aware, my husband and I are moving to the Los Angeles area this month. 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. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. YES. In his 1979 book How to Rear Infants, he wrote: The parent who spanks his child keeps him from going to hell.. (Hyles did not respond to an interview request. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. Up until she was about 10, "things seemed very. THE TRUTH is that all the property belonged solely to the First Baptist Church of Hammond. As the bible saysBe sure your sin will find you out.This is such a sad thing to have happened. . Another person who is keenly aware of the lure and peril of personality is Murphrey. On the basis of Dr. Hyles own admissions, I rest my case about the massive cover-up of sin under his leadership. This is a moment when we need, as people of integrity, to be honest in all of this. 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. Apr 8, 2013. By sifilings. Brother Cloud lives in South Asia where he has been a church planting missionary since 1979. Former pastor of First Baptist Church, Culpeper, Virginia, Convicted in 2006 of cruelty to children and assault and battery, 4. FIRST, TO GIVE THE BACKGROUND, LET ME QUOTE FROM THE BOOK , IN REGARD TO HYLES RELATIONSHIP WITH JUDY NISCHIK. In 2000, Joseph was sentenced to 114 years in prison; Evangeline got 65. I sent students there and hired graduates from HAC. - www.wayoflife.org, Sharing Policy: It is a frightful fact that mans will drives his discernment. David was a blatant liar. 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. 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. There was definitely a door between their offices [Jack Hyles and Jenny Nischiks offices]. I have sat in his office and he in mine. Eddie Lapina is the one controlling the pastor. Abused her. . Voyle Glover, an attorney and longtime church member, was not among the defenders. I about laughed in his face. It is also an outrage that both Hyles and Schaap were allowed by the church leadership to have such power over a local church. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. Its not even a valid comparison.. Scandal followed the younger Hyles. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. We never double dated. Probably, there are many complex factors involved - not just my dad was a jerk. 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." After she and her husband hit a rocky patch, they turned to Schaap for counseling. He charmed people in order to get them to do what he wanted them to do., As Schaap consolidated his grip on the congregation, says former church member Linda Gensaw, he became more brazengraphic sexual sermons to the point that I didnt want to take my children., Tom Brennan, the Independent Baptist pastor in Chicago and former First Baptist member, agrees. 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? 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. (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. Either by her own choosing or by inability or by unreasonableness, she never did meet those expectations. My dad pastored a church that evolved into a 50,000-member cult. Nevertheless, the story of First Baptist is epic enough to rival the most sordid Old Testament tale. 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. Tags: Crime & Law, Print-Specific Tags - Feature, Writers - Bryan Smith. The approach resonated deeply with rural Texans longing for a return to old-time religion. In light of the firsthand testimonies that have been published, this pastor is simply closing his eyes to the truth, for whatever reason. 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. You call him an adulterer. I believe that Brother Hyles knows that David had moral problems from the day he hit puberty, but it has never been dealt with. 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. Hated her. 57, 58). 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. 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. Then, she makes claim for Linda to claim Linda was abused is a self-centered cry for attention and demeaning to those who were actually abused. Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. A truly just man will. Victoria says: August 20, 2012 at 12:35 pm. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. He built her family a beautiful home right around the corner from our house. I dont care how controlling Jack Schaap was. 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. 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. Author: jimbaumerexperience.com. 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. Among the best and brightest of the early studentsa young man who would eventually win the blessing of Jack Hyles to marry his youngest daughter, Cindywas Jack Schaap. And, says Kaifetz, he got a heros welcome. 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. 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. We hated her. Linda Murphrey. Treated her terribly. Also, the girl whom Schaap counseled across state lines was 16 when the abuse began. 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. Women were to wear skirts that covered the knee. 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. I am continually amazed at the pastors who defend Jack Hyles, denying that he was a moral reprobate as well as a dictatorial cult leader. 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. 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. 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. There were references to secret meetings with him in different places (Nischik, The Wizard of God: My Life With Jack Hyles, pp. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. I met him fresh out of high school. Hated her. (The bus ministry still operates today.). until the child is crying, not tears of anger but tears of a broken will. They should leave stripes if need be. In a show of modesty that would be almost unthinkable in later years, Hyles acknowledged that he didnt immediately set bushes to burning. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. He will abhor that which is evil (Rom. 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. Another egregious case was working its way through the courts around the same time. 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. Cindy cut off her own sister, Linda Murphrey, who left the cult and has spoken publicly in Ted talks about how her father was abusive, hated her mother, abused church members, and enjoyed his affairs while preaching condemnation to others from the pulpit. 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. You have to submit 100 percent of the time, and whenever anything goes wrong in a marriage, its because the woman didnt do enough.. Our pastor back home had given us a point of contact. He died a multi-millionaire. Join Facebook to connect with Linda Murphy and others you may know. Gibbs,I just watched the video on the First Baptist Church website where you, Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina discussed the church's current scandal. 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. Brother Hyles didn't own anything at the church. 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 were all of a sudden part of the most successful operation, the most successful movement, you have ever seen or heard about, Kaifetz says. Never. 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. I would just sit there, and he would say, My son David and Paula never single dated, and I would look at David and start laughing and think, This is hilarious; I cant believe that he gets up and says this. His dad gave me six months of sex counseling before David and I got married, and I could nail him just with that and what he said to me. 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. . 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. 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.. Offering: Offerings are welcome if you care to make one. Including Linda Murphrey, Hyless daughter. 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