3. The Bible was to be interpreted literally and by Hyles alone. I about laughed in his face. (Or would have, had Schaap not habitually railed against the evils of rock music.). She was never charged with a crime, nor was Hyles. 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. First Baptist Churchs longtime lawyer, David Gibbs, declined a request for comment on this story. 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 my dad did nothing but cover it up. What he was doing was unmistakable: simulating masturbation, in front of thousands of children, in the middle of a church service. 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. Maybe you could start your investigation there.Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. Its hard to believe. Busby is far from the only person to compare First Baptist to a cult. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. After his first sermon in 1947, Elijah blushed and Heavens flag flew at half mast for three days, he lamented in a 1975 Time magazine article. A truly just man will. Id been told that there was assistance at Hyles-Anderson in finding a job. Columbus, OH 43205 ( map) Learn more about Linda Pax Lowes. 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. Joseph D. Combs, 63 His dads philosophy is if I didnt see it I dont believe it. Within a couple of years, his flock had swelled to 4,000, earning Hyles a far-reaching reputation. A strategic and highly accomplished executive with vast expertise in brand management, business development, digital transformation, P&L management, and relationship management. Summary: Articles about Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. Unfortunately, it went well beyond talk. The culmination of many events in our lives brought us to the decision that we have made to move. Founded in 1887, sleepy First Baptist had a mostly well-to-do congregation, many of whom commuted to jobs in Chicago. But to the congregation of First Baptist, it was all in a days preaching. He was sentenced to a year of probation. Incidentally, Paula and I have volumes of stories to swap, and it is interesting to see just how similar they are. He promises that there will be no cover-up. What I cant comprehend is telling a lie that so many people know is a lie. The sessions lasted from 2004 through 2009. Infancy. Your idol is a false one. I told his dad about that. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. . He returned to the Chicago area, to Bolingbrook, moving in with a woman named Brenda Stevens. What I cant comprehend is telling a lie that so many people know is a lie. This is why the atheist doesnt believe in God and why the devoted Roman Catholic doesnt believe his church is apostate. . Outbursts of anger, an unwillingness to brook criticism, and a penchant for ironfisted control were also part of his repertoire. Oh, God, that hurts! he shrieked. The bombshell exploded with apocalyptic force in May 1989. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. Jack Schaap will be sentenced to prison this week and, as I type this, I am weeping for him and for my sister. 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. This is what happens,when people worship a man,instead of God.We are all human and all capable of commiting horrendous sinwhich is why we must always keep our eyes turned upon Jesus. 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. 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. Perhaps the saddest of all her statements was that the rest of her family will not likely admit that they were wrong. 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.. Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . 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. Then theres Chester Mulligan, a pastor who was ordained in Hammond by Hyles. You are welcome to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. Linda Hyles Murphrey's testimony is a clear indication of just how wounded those closest to Jack Hyles can be. (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) He told us she was crazy. 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. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES OWN DAUGHTER. 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. 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. Subscribe to one or more of our free e-mail newsletters to get instant updates on local news, events, and opportunities in Chicago. 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. Many people have an attitude of, S. He died a multi-millionaire. He could destroy you., In fact, he nearly destroyed Busbys marriage. Add a bio, trivia, and more. If the members of the congregation were heartbroken about what was happening to their church, they didnt show it on this night. 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). Charles V. Shifflett, 61 594 thoughts on "Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange" Hyles, meanwhile, exerted extreme control over every aspect of his flocks livescontrol that members say they welcomed because they believed it was divinely inspired. Where there is longstanding passionate romantic steam there is probably physical adultery, but certainly there is mental adultery. He divorced his wife and married one of the 14. Among his moves: announcing in October that fully a quarter of the churchs staff had been laid off. Speaker: Linda Hyles Murphrey Date: April 5, 2012 Event: TEDx Conference Continuity 1. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. According to a blog called Fallen in Grace, written by someone identifying himself as David Hyles: I have no intention of defending myself. He came and went as he pleased. We will see that Jack Hyless own daughter and Judy Nischiks daughter both believe that the two had an adulterous affair. Way of Lifes content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. They prostrated themselves on the football-field-wide bank of stairs there. He left everything to the organization, which my younger sister and her husband now lead. At Hyless prompting, the congregation gave him a standing ovation. These are sharable. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. helped salvage what was left of my self-respect. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. . 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 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. Head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut, mouth gaping, he began rubbing the shaft rapidly with the cloth, up and down, up and down. The earliest memory of my mother's affair with Jack Hyles that I can remember dates back to the 1960's. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. Linda Hyles Murphrey on the cult her father created. He told lies that he couldnt possibly get away with. I dont care how much he demanded personal loyalty. . If you dont see it, dont believe it. Anything., While reshaping the morals of his followers, Hyles also set about empire building, Independent Baptiststyle. This is a moment when we need, as people of integrity, to be honest in all of this. As I am sure you are well aware, my husband and I are moving to the Los Angeles area this month. He will abhor that which is evil (Rom. Older Comments. Victoria Author: jimbaumerexperience.com. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. The rest of the open letter. He never had restrictions on his life. She talks about growing up and finally leaving the cult at age 28. He also had a nasty, nasty temper. One of the girls told me and Daves sister that she was sleeping with him, and we told his dad. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. I knew the man first hand. The cases continued (See chart below). He left everything to the organization, which my younger sister and her husband now lead. The Biblical Evangelist, a magazine devoted to historic evangelical fundamentalism, published a series of articles accusing Hyles of a years-long romantic affair with his secretary, Jennie Nischik, who happened to be the wife of a church deacon, Victor Nischik. 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. Linda Hyles-Murphrey Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Linda Hyles-Murphrey yet. On a single Sunday in 1975, more than 30,000 people attended services that began at 9:30 a.m. and concluded at 7:30 p.m., reported the Chicago Tribune, prompting Hyles to boast that he had created the worlds largest Sunday school.. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. 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. The church I grew up in was heavily intertwined w/ Hyles . 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. 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. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. Evaluate 3 (13395 Ratings) Top rated: 3 . And, The labourer is worthy of his reward" (1 Timothy 5:18). My 21-year-old radar told me he was a fraud. 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). Meanwhile, the churchs lawyer, David Gibbs, has called for other victims to come forward with their stories. helped salvage what was left of my self-respect. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. Linda Murphrey. The influx of cash enabled First Baptist to buy large parcels of real estate around Hammondand enabled Hyles to buy loyalty. Voyle Glover, an attorney and longtime church member, was not among the defenders. While Schaap was from a more prosperous family, in all important ways he was a virtual Hyles clone. 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. I was called the Antichrist and worse, Glover says. The spokesman for the church, Eddie Wilson, did not return numerous calls requesting an interview. 700 Children's Drive. 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. 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. The pastor continued in this vein at some length, proving himself adept at building straw men, creating smoke screens, and straining at gnats. And, says Kaifetz, he got a heros welcome. Its a continuous guilt trip, says McGuire. On a cool Sunday evening in mid-October, I drove to Hammond to sit in on a First Baptist service. Ballengers March 1993 trial was just inundated with people from that church who supported him, recalls the prosecutor, Clarence Murray, now a Superior Court judge in Lake County, Indiana. 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. Including Linda Murphrey, Hyless daughter. Hyles eventually abandoned the churchs Southern Baptist theology, saying it was too liberal. Brother Evans daughter was one of the ones that David had an affair with. Local papers, from the Hammond Times to the Chicago Tribune, featured the story, as did the tabloid TV news show A Current Affair. David was a blatant liar. 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. Though the sermons werent nearly as sexual in the beginning, says Schaaps former editor, he was seductive. 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. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. ________________There was definitely a door between their offices [Jack Hyles and Jenny Nischiks offices]. 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. So yes, he did know. Leverages . 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._________________[As to why the people at First Baptist allowed these things to go on] the only thing I can tell you is that you are so totally brainwashed. 57, 58). Before the judge, if Schaap wasnt exactly defiant, he was far from submissive. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. 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. Scandal followed the younger Hyles. 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. 12:9). Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. 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. Spanking should be deliberate and last at least ten or fifteen minutes, he continued. As the bible saysBe sure your sin will find you out.This is such a sad thing to have happened. You call him an adulterer. One of the girls told me and Daves sister that she was sleeping with him, and we told his dad. Facebook gives people the power. In an incredibly short amount of time I have healed much and think I would surprise even you with the strength I have gained. You could see their family from our back door. These are not sharable. When he would counsel me, she says, he would be asking me these shocking questions about sex. 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. Former pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, Imperial, Missouri, 8. Ohh! [As to why the people at First Baptist allowed these things to go on] the only thing I can tell you is that you are so totally brainwashed. When he entered, we would all stand on the pew and sing, We love you, Preacher. PacifistAg. He died a multi-millionaire. Other items we sell to help fund our expensive literature and foreign church planting ministries. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. 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. 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. You may also post parts of reports and/or entire reports to websites, blogs, etc as long as you give proper credit (citation). Former pastor of First Baptist Church, Culpeper, Virginia, Convicted in 2006 of cruelty to children and assault and battery, 4. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. I think back to the utter immorality of the fundamentalist sect that ran by high school and college. He pastored a church in Texas and was found to be having affairs with 14 different women. For the benefit of any doubters, Hyles demonstrated his power in the middle of a sermon one Sunday. 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. Incidentally, Paula and I have volumes of stories to swap, and it is interesting to see just how similar they are. Early in my life I learned that there was one thing that could kill a festive mood at a dinner party. And at the end, awash in an old-time hymn, hundreds of them, expressions blank, unhesitatingly made their way to the front of the church. View the profiles of people named Linda Murphy on Facebook. Hyles made driving out these northern liberals his first priority. This was not merely a simple local church issue. At this point, the sermons climax, Schaap would heave up a high-powered crossbow and fire an arrow into a red X painted on a fake rock a few feet from his pulpit. They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. I have no spiritual respect for a preacher who defends Jack Hyles. If we have our eyes on Christ and our own personal responsibilities before Him, we will not stumble when men fail us. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. 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. 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. 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. But Schaap is not simply one of those rogue evangelists who thunders against the evils of forbidden sex while indulging in it himself. Things that we encourage you to share include the audio sermons, O Timothy magazine, FBIS articles, and the free eVideos and free eBooks. And it shall be done., Critics are skeptical. And even turned his own children against their mother. My father tried desperately to cover it up. Beatings would last endlessly, it seemed, says Mary Jo McGuire, 45, a corporate trainer in Colorado whose father was a deacon in the church. Rock music was out, of course, as was any music with a syncopated beat. 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. 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. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. 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. 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