Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open. His dads philosophy is if I didnt see it I dont believe it. It is easy to sit decades later and call that ministry a cult. As with most of his sermons at the northwest Indiana megachurchthe 14th largest in the country and the biggest Independent Baptist house of worship in the nationthe message struck as bluntly as a pounded nail: Submit to Gods plan for your life or be snapped like a twig and flung away (as Schaap would demonstrate by cracking a stick over his head, tossing it aside, and barking, Next!). You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. As I am sure you are well aware, my husband and I are moving to the Los Angeles area this month. She has apparently allowed the stress of expectations to define her. But to the congregation of First Baptist, it was all in a days preaching. Things that we encourage you to share include the audio sermons, video presentations, O Timothy magazine, and the hundreds of Fundamental Baptist Information Service (FBIS) articles. To critics, this effort appeared to be more about boosting the churchs attendance numbers than about saving souls. You [sic] diatribes on your filthy forums serve Satans purpose well.). Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. Treated her terribly. Sadly, in your very heart of hearts you must be the most miserable, lonely person alive. Columbus, OH 43205 ( map) Learn more about Linda Pax Lowes. Subscribe for free today! UPDATE: TEDS video has now been restored. 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. 2. In an incredibly short amount of time I have healed much and think I would surprise even you with the strength I have gained. 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. He was a genius, recalls a former member of the Hammond church who has edited some of Jack Schaaps books. The sister that Linda Murphrey mentions, is Jack Schaap's wife, Cindy. She claims that Dr. Hyles died after having amassed $80 million dollars worth of real-estate buildings at the church. Yes, then, I agree. 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. He was sentenced to a year of probation. Including Linda Murphrey, Hyless daughter. 57, 58). It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions Ive ever made since. Our home was so full of turmoil, hatred, stress, strife, and as a little girl, it was isolating, it was intense, and it was frightening. That boy had not one rule for his life. They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. When she put that curtain that went across the wall, it probably stuck out a good four feet from the wall and it went all the way across, so you had to go behind the curtain to see the door after she put that up. What makes a church a cult? Former pastor of Antioch Baptist Academy, Warren, Michigan, Convicted in 2011 of sexually assaulting a minor, 3. A row of white-coated high-ranking churchmen seated behind Schaap watched in silence. In her first one-on-one interview about the church, Hyles's middle daughter, Linda Murphrey, a motivational speaker and coach in Southern California, remembers his followers as "zombies" who. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? Offering: Offerings are welcome if you care to make one. It operated and still operates under the guise of an independent fundamental Baptist church. Author: jimbaumerexperience.com. 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. 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. Linda Murphrey, one of his daughters, recently told the Post-Tribune that she was 2 years old when her family moved from Texas to Indiana. I pity you for you will be experiencing the consequences of your actions for a very long time. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. If the members of the congregation were heartbroken about what was happening to their church, they didnt show it on this night. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. Disillusioned, he wrote Fundamental Seduction: The Jack Hyles Case. Former pastor of Temecula Valley Baptist Church, Temecula, California, Convicted in 1999 of molesting a 14-year-old girl. He is the one hiding all under the rug. The spokesman for the church, Eddie Wilson, did not return numerous calls requesting an interview. Early in my life I learned that there was one thing that could kill a festive mood at a dinner party. . Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. Nischik twice tried to present the matter before the deacons of First Baptist, but he was shut down. 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. When you do submit, be prepared to endure excruciating pain. A truly just man will. First, there was the expectation that the school provided some support for students when they arrived. 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. Many people have an attitude of, S. Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. He died a multi-millionaire. Men were to wear jackets and ties and close-cropped hair. Way of Life's content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. Kindly, Linda Hyles Murphrey is a liar on many counts! 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. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. I knew the man first hand. 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. . Beatings would last endlessly, it seemed, says Mary Jo McGuire, 45, a corporate trainer in Colorado whose father was a deacon in the church. I was called the Antichrist and worse, Glover says. After she and her husband hit a rocky patch, they turned to Schaap for counseling. My brother sent this to me today. 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. Its hard to believe. 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. Hyles certainly had enemies -- back then, more so. Nobody there ever drank Kool-Aid. We both graduated the same year and went to college. Now if I walked up to you tonight and I said to you, Ive got something I want you to drink . . I met him fresh out of high school. It is a culture, past and present members say, enabled by cover-ups and cultlike control. 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. 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. With these thoughts expressed, I bathe myself of you and any influence you may have had on me in the past. Jack Hyles set himself up as the saviour of fundamentalism and the pastor of pastors. 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. 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. 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. Yellow buses lined back streets and alleys. He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. Your idol is a false one. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward" (1 Timothy 5:18). They have a system where abusers and pedophiles can flourish, because you cant challenge the men, opines one. absolute authoritarian leader who defines the group; a thought program that includes control of the environment, control of information, and people subordinating themselves and their feelings to the demands of the leader; and a lack of accountability for the head of the group. 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. View the profiles of people named Linda Murphy on Facebook. Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. Add a bio, trivia, and more. He moved the bottom of the stick near his groin and angled it away from himself. When he entered, we would all stand on the pew and sing, We love you, Preacher. 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. #6. 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. He organized media boycotts and wrote letters savaging the local papers for reprinting filth. Hundreds in his flock rose to his defense. Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . ..and stay on our knees in prayer, because Satan is just waiting for the opportunity to strike. 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. 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. Read more about this topic: Jack Hyles Famous quotes containing the word children: ), If a man did stumblehaving an affair, say, or visiting prostitutes or abusing childrenthe question wasnt how he could have but rather what the woman, or the child, did to drive him to such sin, some former church members say. He told lies that he couldnt possibly get away with. There will be nothing swept under any rug. 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. It is also an outrage that both Hyles and Schaap were allowed by the church leadership to have such power over a local church. 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