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 wrath of Hyles and his supporters again rained down. 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. 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. Thats why people just fell all over each other to exalt [Hyles]., The level of devotionand controlsometimes strayed into the absurd. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. 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. See also Other Works | Publicity Listings | Official Sites It was craziness, living one way, preaching another. - www.wayoflife.org, Sharing Policy: 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.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. Join Facebook to connect with Linda Murphrey and others you may know. 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. When he entered, we would all stand on the pew and sing, We love you, Preacher. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. 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. Eddie Lapina, a Hyles-trained church fixture, is acting as interim pastor while a committee searches for Schaaps replacement. But, of course, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. 25 The fear of man bringeth a snare: but whoso putteth his trust in the Lord shall be safe. Another philosophy of his is that he doesnt want to hear anything, because then he doesnt have to deal with it. When I think of him sitting in a jail cell right now, my heart can hardly handle the ache. . 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. I met him fresh out of high school. a system of secrecy in the church directing that matters of criminal violations not be reported to judicial authority for whom he openly preaches scorn, but to the church itself, meaning Jack Hyles. The case was settled for an undisclosed amount. By sifilings. Voyle Glover, an attorney and longtime church member, was not among the defenders. He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. Offering: Offerings are welcome if you care to make one. Further, this was not just one pastor. He built her family a beautiful home right around the corner from our house. FIRST, TO GIVE THE BACKGROUND, LET ME QUOTE FROM THE BOOK , IN REGARD TO HYLES RELATIONSHIP WITH JUDY NISCHIK. [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. 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. Ohh! Its not even a valid comparison.. Its hard to believe. This is why the atheist doesnt believe in God and why the devoted Roman Catholic doesnt believe his church is apostate. I have listened to over 1,000 sermons on tape which he preached in his own pulpit in the 70s and early 80s. 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. 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. ), 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. The fire-and-brimstone words of his mother burning in his head, Hyles then enrolled at East Texas Baptist College in Marshall, Texas, where he became a student pastor. What makes a church a cult? And that was to talk about me; to talk about my life, my life as the daughter of a cult leader. There should have been a cry against him from every Bible-believing Baptist pulpit in America. . Eddie Lapina is the one controlling the pastor. Don says: August 20, 2012 at 12:35 pm. Dr. Linda Lowes, a physical therapist and researcher specializing in the assessment of neuromuscular dystrophies, is a principal investigator in the Center for Gene Therapy and a research associate professor of Pediatrics at The Ohio State University. 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.. 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. The answer is definitely yes and there are a hundred people who know that. He returned to the Chicago area, to Bolingbrook, moving in with a woman named Brenda Stevens. 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. 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. These are sharable. Oh! 700 Children's Drive. 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. This is what happens to preachers who continue to associate with men like Hyles and their defenders. I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. Only then, he would growl, will you become a polished shaft: one suitable for Gods bow. (She left the church in 2010 after her husband, a prominent member of the congregation, was caught having sexual relationships with underage girls. That experience didnt cause Mulligan to rethink his career choice, however. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigated, but the cause of death could not be determined. 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 attended at least 12 Pastors Schools. Brother Hyles didn't own anything at the church. You are welcome to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. 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. Virtually no one would marry without Hyless blessing, several former church members say. 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. Sadly, in your very heart of hearts you must be the most miserable, lonely person alive. (Attendance peaked in the early 1990s, when more than 20,000 people came to services each Sunday, making First Baptist the largest church in the nation.) As soon as one First Baptistrelated scandal died down, another seemed to surface. It operated and still operates under the guise of an independent fundamental Baptist church. This was not merely a simple local church issue. - Receive these reports by email First Baptist Churchs longtime lawyer, David Gibbs, declined a request for comment on this story. Hyles lied about the existence of the door, saying, There IS no door, which was technically true at the time, since it had been removed after the matter became public! In 1972 came the crown jewel: Hyles-Anderson College, an unaccredited divinity school where would-be pastors are taught to export the Hyles approach to churches across the country. Women were to wear skirts that covered the knee. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions Ive ever made since. 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. . He was chased from a job running the Sunday school at a church in Pinellas Park, Florida, over allegations of more affairs. They also corrected a previous repo 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. And even to our adult years, he owned us. Rock music was out, of course, as was any music with a syncopated beat. In 2000, Joseph was sentenced to 114 years in prison; Evangeline got 65. 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. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. Dr. Hyles lying was blatant just like Davids. When Nischik confronted Hyles in 1985 and demanded that he leave his wife alone, she filed for divorce at Hyles insistence. 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." . The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. He pastored a church in Texas and was found to be having affairs with 14 different women. 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. 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. The earliest memory of my mother's affair with Jack Hyles that I can remember dates back to the 1960's. The sessions lasted from 2004 through 2009. After she and her husband hit a rocky patch, they turned to Schaap for counseling. He hated my mom. You have to submit 100 percent of the time, and whenever anything goes wrong in a marriage, its because the woman didnt do enough.. Former pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, Convicted in 2006 of molesting a five-year-old boy, 2. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? 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. Lawyers are trained in using minor mistakes to draw attention away from major facts. There was definitely a door between their offices [Jack Hyles and Jenny Nischiks offices]. All we ask is that you give proper credit. Many rumors and much slander developed, some of which continues to rattle around to this day. Former pastor of First Baptist Church, Culpeper, Virginia, Convicted in 2006 of cruelty to children and assault and battery, 4. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. These are sharable. (A poster for one appearance called the Hyleses The Worlds Greatest Men.). Why he lies about that I will never know. Meanwhile, the churchs lawyer, David Gibbs, has called for other victims to come forward with their stories. Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience. 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. These are not sharable. 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. 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. 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. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. The preacher quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Abstain from all appearance of evil, but Hyles brazenly replied, My people need to trust me.. The bombshell exploded with apocalyptic force in May 1989. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. [Hyles] took your voice, he took your beliefs, he took your likes and dislikes and opinions, and he gave you his own. In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? 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. My father tried desperately to cover it up. Nobody there ever drank Kool-Aid. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. Another egregious case was working its way through the courts around the same time. In fact, she kept it covered with a curtain. ..and stay on our knees in prayer, because Satan is just waiting for the opportunity to strike. He soon took it upon himself to arrange marriages. 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. . How true it is. First, there was the expectation that the school provided . 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. Before the judge, if Schaap wasnt exactly defiant, he was far from submissive. 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. 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. 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. 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. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. The 1990 book details the affair and many other misdeeds, including a Watergate-like coverup of affairs and sexual abuse at First Baptist. 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 - The Jim Baumer Experience. 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. After the divorce, Jennie moved into a brand new $150,000 condominium at Hyles generous behest. If Hyles wanted him to drink, he would. His wife, Paula, divorced him. In the early 1980s, David Hyles, then in his 20s, was the youth pastor at First Baptist. 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 also had a nasty, nasty temper. 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. That reknown enabled Hyles to begin crisscrossing the country as the de facto leader of a loose coalition of Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches. The author of this book, Cindy Schaap, has now divorced her husband b/c he's in prison. 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. I dont care how much he demanded personal loyalty. With these thoughts expressed, I bathe myself of you and any influence you may have had on me in the past. Why he lies about that I will never know. helped salvage what was left of my self-respect. The writer claims that she was a victim of emotional abuse and was snubbed by the upper class. 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. The influx of cash enabled First Baptist to buy large parcels of real estate around Hammondand enabled Hyles to buy loyalty. Whatever awkwardness he may have had soon gave way to his extraordinary oratorical gifts. You call him an adulterer. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. You may also post parts of reports and/or entire reports to websites, blogs, etc as long as you give proper credit (citation). This preacher, who had held Hyles up as his hero for 20 years and loved the man deeply and prayed for him passionately, approached him in fear and trembling about the matter of the door. Scandal followed the younger Hyles. 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. Disillusioned, he wrote Fundamental Seduction: The Jack Hyles Case. Log in to Reply. Join Facebook to connect with Linda Murphy and others you may know. Money poured into the church in other ways: the tithes collected each Sunday, a book-publishing arm, and various conferences and seminars. 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. I told his dad about that. He died a multi-millionaire. And even turned his own children against their mother. He divorced his wife and married one of the 14. Charles V. Shifflett, 61 Twisted scripture, Northwest Indiana-style. Dont get me wrongI certainly believe Jack Schaap is guilty of a crime and deserves punishment. My 21-year-old radar told me he was a fraud. 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 left everything to the organization, which my younger sister and her husband now lead. He told people to shun me., Leaving First Baptist was in Busbys opinion like leaving a cult. I dont know if there is right now. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. 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. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. Speaker: Linda Hyles Murphrey Date: April 5, 2012 Event: TEDx Conference Continuity 1. The ushers, standing in back throughout the 90-minute service, occasionally whooped, like cowboys at a rodeo, at something they found particularly inspiring. When all of this happened with our church in Garland, his dad didnt want to hear it. Theres a world of difference between a cult of personality and a cult. [This was before Jack Schaap got caught in adultery with a teenager.] I have sat in his office and he in mine. 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 knows all about Dave Hyles and all till now. The autopsy revealed trauma and numerous broken bones in various stages of healing. 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 see, he had taught us that the best way to please God was to please him, because he was Gods man. But thats what it is. Abused her. 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. In 1985, Stevenss 15-month-old son, Brent, was found lifeless in his crib. Other items we sell to help fund our expensive literature and foreign church planting ministries. 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. Sermons on the scandal rang out from pulpits across the country. Linda. In an incredibly short amount of time I have healed much and think I would surprise even you with the strength I have gained. Linda Hyles-Murphrey Biography It looks like we don't have any Biography for Linda Hyles-Murphrey yet. 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. At the end, as usual, young men streamed up to the stage. His influence was vast. 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. Victoria William A. Mar 20 2013. I take my hat off to Linda Murprhey and applaud her moral courage. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. So yes, he did know. Jack Hyles wouldnt live to see Mulligans conviction. www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. Love Makes the World Go Round (RPM Sketch #2), A New City/A New Home (JimBaumerMe Newsletter), One Sheet for Living in Some Strange Days (indie rock). People lined up to give cash to him and his only son, David, who was following in his footsteps. One of Schaaps adult children, Kenneth, has mounted a letter-writing campaign to the judge. If the members of the congregation were heartbroken about what was happening to their church, they didnt show it on this night. Lowest rating: 1 . (DeCoster left the egg industry in 2011 after his companys products caused a massive salmonella outbreak.) Ohhhh! 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