He was chased from a job running the Sunday school at a church in Pinellas Park, Florida, over allegations of more affairs. 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. Former pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, Convicted in 2006 of molesting a five-year-old boy, 2. She left the church after alleging that Schaap behaved inappropriately during marriage counseling sessions in 2004 through 2009. The 1990 book details the affair and many other misdeeds, including a Watergate-like coverup of affairs and sexual abuse at First Baptist. helped salvage what was left of my self-respect. Thanks for what youre making me.. 594 thoughts on "Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange" Comment navigation. It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. In fact, the church had by then built its own grammar school, middle school, and high school. Enough with the Jack hyles worship there Eddy. 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. In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. Here are just eight of the men affiliated with First Baptist Church or educated at Hyles-Andersonmost of them pastorswho scattered around the nation committing crimes. 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. His wife, Paula, divorced him. Sadly, in your very heart of hearts you must be the most miserable, lonely person alive. Oh! The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigated, but the cause of death could not be determined. It is easy to sit decades later and call that ministry a cult. No person has perfect knowledge or perfect memory about events that occurred years in the past, and it is always possible to quibble about some detail of someones story, as any court trial would demonstrate. (A poster for one appearance called the Hyleses The Worlds Greatest Men.). We will see that Jack Hyless own daughter and Judy Nischiks daughter both believe that the two had an adulterous affair.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. He was beyond the bounds of what was appropriate, says Brennan. 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. But neither did he dwell on compassion. He really does have that kind of influence on those people. Eddie Lapina was witness to all of that. Theres a world of difference between a cult of personality and a cult. A row of white-coated high-ranking churchmen seated behind Schaap watched in silence. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. I asked Rick Ross, whose nonprofit institute maintains an online archive of data on cults and controversial movements. Other items we sell to help fund our very expensive literature, video, and foreign church planting ministry. I emphatically and strongly disagree with those who would assert that the church is a cult, he says. . Abused her. He came and went as he pleased. 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. 27 An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.. Add a bio, trivia, and more. [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. I felt like I had one main responsibility as a child. He died a multi-millionaire. As soon as one First Baptistrelated scandal died down, another seemed to surface. He was sentenced to a year of probation. 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. That experience didnt cause Mulligan to rethink his career choice, however. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. And even turned his own children against their mother. 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. Jack Hyles set himself up as the saviour of fundamentalism and the pastor of pastors. 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. Our pastor back home had given us a point of contact. Hyles made the arrangements for and settled the terms of the divorce, and Hyles even paid for it! 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. Notice the bones and the skull there, he said as he raised a cup into which he told the congregation he was going to pour poison. I have sat in his office and he in mine. Linda Hyles Murphrey, a motivational speaker, presented her story titled "From Cult to Courage" at a TEDx event, discussing her hardships as a child of Jack Hyles. But Schaap is not simply one of those rogue evangelists who thunders against the evils of forbidden sex while indulging in it himself. 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. First, we see that refusal to separate from those who are immoral takes away the ability to protest their evil. He died a multi-millionaire. As I am sure you are well aware, my husband and I are moving to the Los Angeles area this month. He had affairs. Two days after arriving, I met the man, Brother Phil Sallie, who was in charge of workforce assistance. If you dont see it, dont believe it. Former pastor of First Baptist Church, Culpeper, Virginia, Convicted in 2006 of cruelty to children and assault and battery, 4. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. It operated and still operates under the guise of an independent fundamental Baptist church. Biography. This is a truly sad case. The saddest realization is that it has all been under the guise of Christianity. He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. DeAnda, a trim 30-something who is spoken of as a candidate for the top job, made no references to sex. 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. You call him an adulterer. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. 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. 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. 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. We trust that your Christian honesty will preserve the integrity of this policy. Fourth, our attitude toward sin reveals the condition of our hearts. In his 1979 book How to Rear Infants, he wrote: The parent who spanks his child keeps him from going to hell.. Ohh! 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. Then theres Chester Mulligan, a pastor who was ordained in Hammond by Hyles. Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. So [authorities] have asked us to come in and conduct a thorough investigation. Head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut, mouth gaping, he began rubbing the shaft rapidly with the cloth, up and down, up and down. Linda Hyles-Murphrey Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Linda Hyles-Murphrey yet. . They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. Using biblical passages as justification, Hyles preached that spanking was more than tolerable; it was a sacred duty. He claimed that he had long heard reports that Nischik was immoral, but the following important observation must be taken into consideration in this matter:Throughout all of this, Hyles being privy to most if not all of it by his own testimony, Vic remained a member in good standing of the First Baptist Church, song leader in Dr. Hyles own adult Sunday School class, choir member, a key worker in the bus ministry (where the pickings would be delightful among love-starved, fatherless, teenage girls), a trustee of Hyles-Anderson College, a financial adviser and assistant who helped him obtain a $1,500,000 loan for the purchase of the Hyles-Anderson campus, as well as a respected deacon in the First Baptist Church! Questions? Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. Your statements that your investigation will reach far and wide, and that unbelievers will see at its conclusion that the church didn't try to hide wrong doing were encouraging. Third, men naturally tend to have their eyes on big men rather than on the Lord. His preaching had gotten soI hesitate to use the word pornographic. It was so vulgar sometimes that it was just a grief to my spirit., Challenging Schaap, Busby says, was not an option: He had absolute power. 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. But those who have left, the followers who have tried to leave, the outsiders, even the media (it was on. I pity you for you will be experiencing the consequences of your actions for a very long time. Within a couple of years, his flock had swelled to 4,000, earning Hyles a far-reaching reputation. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, ack Hyles is dead, but his life and testimony matters. It is nearly impossible, in fact, to entirely escape his influence among fundamental Baptists. Evaluate 3 (13395 Ratings) Top rated: 3 . Lowest rating: 1 . He did what he wanted to do. Menu. That decision and my close friendship with your ex-daughter-in-law (you remember her, don't you?) 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. A string of assaults and sexual crimes committed by pastors across the country have one thing in common: The perpetrators have ties to the megachurch in Hammond, Indiana. . [This was before Jack Schaap got caught in adultery with a teenager.] Hated her. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. [Hyles] took your voice, he took your beliefs, he took your likes and dislikes and opinions, and he gave you his own. Jack Hyles was a personal friend. look with favor on an unjust man. . You only know about him from a distance and years later. We both graduated the same year and went to college. . When he walked out on the stage of those chapel services, youve never seen anything more over-the-top expressivethousands waving the Bible in the air, screaming, shouting, whistling., In the beginning, Schaaps preaching was standard Hyles: emotional denunciations of the flock for not doing enough to please God. 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. In a show of modesty that would be almost unthinkable in later years, Hyles acknowledged that he didnt immediately set bushes to burning. Another common characteristic of cults, Ross says, is that they use shame and some sort of exploitationfinancial, spiritual, or sexualto exercise control. I dont care how controlling Jack Schaap was. The year was 1985. And Brennan says they have a point. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. Leverages . He moved the bottom of the stick near his groin and angled it away from himself. By sifilings. About. I told his dad about that. 57, 58). A strategic and highly accomplished executive with vast expertise in brand management, business development, digital transformation, P&L management, and relationship management. Busby is far from the only person to compare First Baptist to a cult. Brother Hyles didn't own anything at the church. I anxiously await the day that I can say with all honesty, "They did the right thing". 3. As the bible saysBe sure your sin will find you out.This is such a sad thing to have happened. (She left the church in 2010 after her husband, a prominent member of the congregation, was caught having sexual relationships with underage girls. - www.wayoflife.org, Sharing Policy: It operated and still operates under the guise of an independent fundamental Baptist church. Were there problems, particularly in the latter years? Former pastor of Central Baptist Church, East Chicago, Indiana; current pastor of Grace Baptist Church, Miami, Florida, Convicted in 2009 of felony stalking of a 14-year-old, 6. And they prayed. He left everything to the organization, which my younger sister and her husband now lead. Back at First Baptist, prayers for Brother Schaap have been asked for and received. Nischiks letter, which he later publicized, said in part,MY HOME WAS TAMPERED WITH AND MY MARRIAGE DELIBERATELY WRECKED BY JACK HYLES. Log in to Reply. I dont care how much he demanded personal loyalty. One of the girls told me and Daves sister that she was sleeping with him, and we told his dad. But, of course, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know.If you and your client really want to do the right thing, you'll face the fact that First Baptist Church has had a cancer growing in it for nearly 50 years. 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. Theyre being shamed about how horrible they are. She has apparently allowed the stress of expectations to define her. But thats what it is. 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. This is what happens to preachers who continue to associate with men like Hyles and their defenders. Rock music was out, of course, as was any music with a syncopated beat. 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. The articles also alleged financial improprieties, accusing Hyles of using church money to lavish tens of thousands of dollars worth of gifts on Jennie, including a car, clothes, and home remodeling. 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. . Eddie Lapina is the one controlling the pastor. It was simple, but daunting, and that was to keep all the secrets, and there were so many. 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. Born in the tiny Dallas suburb of Italy, Hyles often preached about his alcoholic father, his devoted and deeply conservative Christian mother, and the curse of growing up poor. UPDATE: TEDS video has now been restored. 2012-2022 Way of Life Literature Inc. v12.19.22, David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. 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. Mar 20 2013. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. Several people who grew up at First Baptist recall that parents took the instruction to heart. 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. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. With these thoughts expressed, I bathe myself of you and any influence you may have had on me in the past. View the profiles of people named Linda Murphrey. 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. Some of the abuse that Glover described in his bookas many others would later allegewas perpetrated by Hyless son. 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. If it were not so, the Bible would not thrice warn in the New Testament Epistles, Be not deceived.. I knew the man. He soon took it upon himself to arrange marriages. For example, after Schaaps conviction, many church members blamed his victim as a temptress. 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. 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. I was called the Antichrist and worse, Glover says. So does every expert and religion blogger tracking the churchand virtually every one of the dozens of victims and former church memberswith whom I spoke. He returned to the Chicago area, to Bolingbrook, moving in with a woman named Brenda Stevens. I was threatened with physical harm, death threats. His office was broken into. Oh, God, that hurts! he shrieked. The writer claims that she was a victim of emotional abuse and was snubbed by the upper class. Summary: Articles about Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. 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