It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. He told us she was crazy. Linda Hyles Murphrey on the cult her father created. Before the judge, if Schaap wasnt exactly defiant, he was far from submissive. You call him a liar. I remember hearing once that it is not wise to put anything in writing that one would not want the entire world to see. Always interesting to hear a different perspective. What he was doing was unmistakable: simulating masturbation, in front of thousands of children, in the middle of a church service. 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. 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. boymom August 11, 2012 at 11:11 am Right back at ya, babe. Kindly, Linda Hyles Murphrey is a liar on many counts! Join Facebook to connect with Linda Murphy and others you may know. 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. Apr 8, 2013. 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. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. We can see men, but we cant see the Lord except through faith, and the preacher who is not walking by faith in Gods Word will be a man pleaser. 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. Whispers began that he was having an affair with the daughter of a high-level administrator at Hyles-Anderson College. . We hated her. 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. 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. But not before a child he fathered with Stevens died under odd circumstances. We both graduated the same year and went to college. Her feelings of regret are understandable, but all of this is in God's timing. They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. 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. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. I emphatically and strongly disagree with those who would assert that the church is a cult, he says. His current job: pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Miami. You call him an adulterer. Tonights guest preacher, Freddy (He says he is not familiar with the details of First Baptist.) But thats what it is. Among the accusations was a systematic culture of cover-up: [Jack Hyles] negligently and carelessly has fostered . Sincerely,(Signed Judy Johnson). Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange. 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. And even to our adult years, he owned us. My brother sent this to me today. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. Four years ago, he pleaded guilty to felony stalking of a 14-year-old girl while pastor of Central Baptist Church in East Chicago. He pastored a church in Texas and was found to be having affairs with 14 different women. The earliest memory of my mother's affair with Jack Hyles that I can remember dates back to the 1960's. In his 1979 book How to Rear Infants, he wrote: The parent who spanks his child keeps him from going to hell.. And that was to talk about me; to talk about my life, my life as the daughter of a cult leader. I was so afraid, and the greater the secrets, the greater my fear, and the greater my determination to keep quiet. 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. The church I grew up in was heavily intertwined w/ Hyles . 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. Joseph D. Combs, 63 Linda Murphrey is one of the daughters of the late Jack Hyles. My older brother became another version of my father. Though the sermons werent nearly as sexual in the beginning, says Schaaps former editor, he was seductive. Why he lies about that I will never know. Our pastor back home had given us a point of contact. 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. But to the congregation of First Baptist, it was all in a days preaching. When the long-serving pastor of First Baptist Church in Hammond stepped down, Hyles got the call. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. Linda (Hyles) Murphrey's "Healing from a God Who Wasn't" 4762 reads There are 5 Comments The opportunity for a Alex Guggenheim - Mon, 04/29/2013 - 8:34pm The opportunity for a thorough and beneficial review was missed by Glover. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? I believe that Brother Hyles knows that David had moral problems from the day he hit puberty, but it has never been dealt with. Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience. In the early 1980s, David Hyles, then in his 20s, was the youth pastor at First Baptist. Its a continuous guilt trip, says McGuire. The preacher quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Abstain from all appearance of evil, but Hyles brazenly replied, My people need to trust me.. 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. 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. 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. support@wayoflife.org. They also corrected a previous repo Tedd Butler, 47 Meanwhile, the churchs lawyer, David Gibbs, has called for other victims to come forward with their stories. 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. And my dad did nothing but cover it up. 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. 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. 57, 58). Within a couple of years, his flock had swelled to 4,000, earning Hyles a far-reaching reputation. The pastor continued in this vein at some length, proving himself adept at building straw men, creating smoke screens, and straining at gnats. My 21-year-old radar told me he was a fraud. What I cant comprehend is telling a lie that so many people know is a lie. The last point is just as unscriptural and wrong and dangerous as the first. He built her family a beautiful home right around the corner from our house. The spokesman for the church, Eddie Wilson, did not return numerous calls requesting an interview. Disillusioned, he wrote Fundamental Seduction: The Jack Hyles Case. Third, men naturally tend to have their eyes on big men rather than on the Lord. He . Older Comments. Rev. My father tried desperately to cover it up. YES. It is a culture, past and present members say, enabled by cover-ups and cultlike control. 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. Trisha LaCroix, who attended Hyles-Anderson College, says that she was disowned by her parentsFirst Baptist members bothin part for daring to wear pants. 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. And there is grace.. I just watched the video on the First Baptist Church website where you, Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina discussed the church's current scandal. Another philosophy of his is that he doesnt want to hear anything, because then he doesnt have to deal with it. 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. If you mean what you said, you have a lot of work to do. He died a multi-millionaire. 12:9). But in July 2010, an hour into the Polished Shaft sermonin a church packed with thousands of teenagers there for a youth conferenceSchaap went further. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. The case remains unsolved; Paul Ciolino, a former DCFS investigator now in private practice, says he is still pursuing leads. According to a blog called Fallen in Grace, written by someone identifying himself as David Hyles: I have no intention of defending myself. Busby is far from the only person to compare First Baptist to a cult. Scandal followed the younger Hyles. 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. 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. As the bible saysBe sure your sin will find you out.This is such a sad thing to have happened. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. 594 thoughts on "Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange" Comment navigation. 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. I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. In this, his views were severe unto merciless. 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. He was beyond the bounds of what was appropriate, says Brennan. The year was 1985. The sessions lasted from 2004 through 2009. 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. With these thoughts expressed, I bathe myself of you and any influence you may have had on me in the past. When he entered, we would all stand on the pew and sing, We love you, Preacher. It is a frightful fact that mans will drives his discernment. 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. First Baptist Churchs longtime lawyer, David Gibbs, declined a request for comment on this story. They have a system where abusers and pedophiles can flourish, because you cant challenge the men, opines one. Hyles eventually abandoned the churchs Southern Baptist theology, saying it was too liberal. . Don says: August 20, 2012 at 12:35 pm. Oh, God, that hurts! he shrieked. When I think of him sitting in a jail cell right now, my heart can hardly handle the ache. Things that we encourage you to share include the audio sermons, O Timothy magazine, FBIS articles, and the free eVideos and free eBooks. You [sic] diatribes on your filthy forums serve Satans purpose well.). Hated her. Either by her own choosing or by inability or by unreasonableness, she never did meet those expectations. 1. ________________There was definitely a door between their offices [Jack Hyles and Jenny Nischiks offices]. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. Former pastor of Antioch Baptist Academy, Warren, Michigan, Convicted in 2011 of sexually assaulting a minor, 3. He returned to the Chicago area, to Bolingbrook, moving in with a woman named Brenda Stevens. But neither did he dwell on compassion. And the night we got married, he told everybody it was our first kiss! 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. 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! Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. The stick was displeasing God, a message hammered home virtually every Sunday. THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES OWN DAUGHTER. He divorced his wife and married one of the 14. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. Dont get me wrongI certainly believe Jack Schaap is guilty of a crime and deserves punishment. [This was before Jack Schaap got caught in adultery with a teenager.] Former principal at Liberty Baptist Academy, Lake Station, Indiana, Convicted in 2002 of crossing state lines with the intent to have sex with an 11-year-old girl, 7. Many rumors and much slander developed, some of which continues to rattle around to this day. Oh! Former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Imperial, Missouri, 8. He got five years in prison. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. Jack Hyles wouldnt live to see Mulligans conviction. This is a truly sad case. He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. That experience didnt cause Mulligan to rethink his career choice, however. About 1,000 students are currently enrolled, down from 2,700 in its heyday, according to admissions director Joe Peete, who gave a Chicago intern a tour of the premises in late October. He left everything to the organization, which my younger sister and her husband now lead. We both graduated the same year and went to college. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. When Nischik confronted Hyles in 1985 and demanded that he leave his wife alone, she filed for divorce at Hyles insistence. We thought to make him happy, we would hate her too. And even to our adult years, he owned us. Money poured into the church in other ways: the tithes collected each Sunday, a book-publishing arm, and various conferences and seminars. www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. - www.wayoflife.org, Sharing Policy: Fourth, our attitude toward sin reveals the condition of our hearts. Your idol is a false one. Instead of hearing from Hyles deacons, lets consider the testimonies of three women who knew Hyles far better and more intimately than the aforementioned Hyles defender knew him, better, in fact, than any pastor who is defending him today. AG. Speaker: Linda Hyles Murphrey Date: April 5, 2012 Event: TEDx Conference Continuity 1. 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. We were taught to not question and to take the man of Gods [Schaaps] word over everything, says Julie Silvestrone Busby, a former First Baptist member who now hosts a Christian radio show in Iowa. 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. I sent students there and hired graduates from HAC. And I was the one who was made to look like the bad guy in both instances. 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? 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. About. (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) Treated her terribly. The surrounding blocks bustled with activity. Summary: Articles about Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. 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). They prostrated themselves on the football-field-wide bank of stairs there. 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. #2. Head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut, mouth gaping, he began rubbing the shaft rapidly with the cloth, up and down, up and down. It was a fine sermon, and the people around memen in suits and ties with neatly combed hair, women in tastefully modest dresses, children sitting quietly beside themsmiled and nodded. 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. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. And, says Kaifetz, he got a heros welcome. Rock music was out, of course, as was any music with a syncopated beat. Id been told that there was assistance at Hyles-Anderson in finding a job. The age at which such punishment should begin? 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.. 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. Men were to wear jackets and ties and close-cropped hair. 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. 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. If it were not so, the Bible would not thrice warn in the New Testament Epistles, Be not deceived.. 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. There were references to secret meetings with him in different places (Nischik. Second, the fear of man brings a snare. 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. The rest of the open letter. The churchs $27 million, 7,500-capacity auditorium, which once strained to fit the congregation, was dotted with empty patches. Chester Mulligan, 47 You had to really look. Kerry Martin, 56 Up until she was about 10, "things seemed very. When authorities were called, McGuire says, Hyles told the girls parents how to avoid arrest. In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. 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. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. 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. You could still see it from his office. 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! And they prayed. The site has more than 1,200 members, she adds. 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 passing, it is interesting to note that Hyles evidence against Vic is loose, unsubstantiated, secondhand, hearsay gossip from unnamed sources (Robert Sumner, The Jack Hyles Story, chapter 5: The Hyles Reply). Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. 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. Read more about this topic: Jack Hyles Famous quotes containing the word children: Also, the girl whom Schaap counseled across state lines was 16 when the abuse began. 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? ..and stay on our knees in prayer, because Satan is just waiting for the opportunity to strike. Dr. Hyles lying was blatant just like Davids. Using biblical passages as justification, Hyles preached that spanking was more than tolerable; it was a sacred duty. According to dozens of current and former church members, religion experts, and historians interviewed by Chicagoplus a review of thousands of pages of court documentshe is part of what some call a deeply embedded culture of misogyny and sexual and physical abuse at one of the nations largest churches. I wish God would . 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. This is what happens to preachers who continue to associate with men like Hyles and their defenders. 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. Im sure that I was marked as an outsider, even though I had taken the advice of former members and worn a suit and tie. 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.. 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. 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. Denied bond, he awaits sentencing in the Porter County Jail; the minimum term is ten years. Since Schaaps arrest, a Facebook page dedicated to supporting victims has popped up. The saddest realization is that it has all been under the guise of Christianity. 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. She was never charged with a crime, nor was Hyles. I knew the man. Evaluate 3 (13395 Ratings) Top rated: 3 . . Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. Tag Archives: Linda Hyles Murphrey Walking Away. 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. If you dont see it, dont believe it. Every member was in complete obedience to my father. Way of Life's content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. I felt like I had one main responsibility as a child. He could destroy you., In fact, he nearly destroyed Busbys marriage. But yes, there is most definitely a door. Be the first to contribute! Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. If Hyles wanted him to drink, he would. The cases continued (See chart below). As a seven-year-old, she used to count the lashes as a way to cope through the searing pain. McGuires younger sister, Sherri Munger, told me she once received more than 300 lashes from a thick leather belt. Maybe you could start your investigation there.Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. After she and her husband hit a rocky patch, they turned to Schaap for counseling. You are free to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. A truly just man will. He will abhor that which is evil (Rom. With God's help, I will make my life in California everything that He would have it be and, unlike you, will not fall. THE TRUTH is that all the property belonged solely to the First Baptist Church of Hammond. 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