With these thoughts expressed, I bathe myself of you and any influence you may have had on me in the past. He used his temper as a form of control.. But yes, there is most definitely a door. You are free to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, ack Hyles is dead, but his life and testimony matters. 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. Join Facebook to connect with Linda Murphy and others you may know. That decision and my close friendship with your ex-daughter-in-law (you remember her, don't you?) Its hard to believe. Facebook gives people the power. 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. 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. 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. Yes, then, I agree. If the members of the congregation were heartbroken about what was happening to their church, they didnt show it on this night. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. At Hyless prompting, the congregation gave him a standing ovation. Hyles thunderously denied the charges and denounced his accuser, Victor Nischik. Apr 8, 2013. 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. 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. In light of the firsthand testimonies that have been published, this pastor is simply closing his eyes to the truth, for whatever reason. Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. 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. Sermons on the scandal rang out from pulpits across the country. Either by her own choosing or by inability or by unreasonableness, she never did meet those expectations. Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . Then theres Chester Mulligan, a pastor who was ordained in Hammond by Hyles. And my dad did nothing but cover it up. Oh! The earliest memory of my mother's affair with Jack Hyles that I can remember dates back to the 1960's. 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! Third, men naturally tend to have their eyes on big men rather than on the Lord. As I am sure you are well aware, my husband and I are moving to the Los Angeles area this month. Theyre being shamed about how horrible they are. Never. 594 thoughts on "Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange" Comment navigation. 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. However, the same deacons who investigated and fired Jack Schapp also investigated the charges of adultery against Jack Hyles and exonerated him.. August 6, 2012 Darrell 594 Comments. After Hyles son-in-law, Jack Schaap, got caught in an adulterous relationship with a teenager recently, Judy sent the following e-mail to David Gibbs, who is helping the church at this time: From: Judy (Nischik) JohnsonTo: Info@christianlaw.orgDate: Monday, August 6, 2012Mr. I asked Rick Ross, whose nonprofit institute maintains an online archive of data on cults and controversial movements. I was threatened with physical harm, death threats. His office was broken into. 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. 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. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions Ive ever made since. Its important to stress that even the people I spoke with who felt victimized by the church did not suggest that the majority of members are anything other than sincere seekers of Christ. 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. Personally, my worthless opinion is that Linda did not like her home life. 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 promises that there will be no cover-up. Scandal followed the younger Hyles. He told lies that he couldnt possibly get away with. Nevertheless, the story of First Baptist is epic enough to rival the most sordid Old Testament tale. He told us she was crazy. My brother sent this to me today. His current job: pastor of Grace Baptist Church in Miami. The stick was displeasing God, a message hammered home virtually every Sunday. 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. 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. You [sic] diatribes on your filthy forums serve Satans purpose well.). 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. 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. 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. Local papers, from the Hammond Times to the Chicago Tribune, featured the story, as did the tabloid TV news show A Current Affair. 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. There were references to secret meetings with him in different places (Nischik. Charles V. Shifflett, 61 Brother Cloud lives in South Asia where he has been a church planting missionary since 1979. She was sickened and literally brokenhearted, she told me, when she heard about her brother-in-laws arest. Whatever awkwardness he may have had soon gave way to his extraordinary oratorical gifts. Later Hyles paid to have a room built for Vic over the garage, where he lived without being allowed any conjugal relationship with his wife. He had affairs. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. Excrement was left on his doorstep. But those who have left, the followers who have tried to leave, the outsiders, even the media (it was on 20/20 last year) recognize that it is clearly a cult. Movies. Eddie Lapina is the one controlling the pastor. I dont care how controlling Jack Schaap was. The wickedness, the heartbreak, the ruining of lives. Examples from First Baptist take in everything: pedophilia, violence, defamation of the innocent to protect the guilty, heresies against Christian doctrine, defiance against lawful authority. The problem is that his dad has set himself up so good, that everybody doubts everything because thats how they have been taught. Another egregious case was working its way through the courts around the same time. The rest of the open letter. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. Eddie Lapina, a Hyles-trained church fixture, is acting as interim pastor while a committee searches for Schaaps replacement. 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. (Similar concern has yet to be expressed for his victim.) I told his dad about that. Always interesting to hear a different perspective. 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. Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? He pastored a church in Texas and was found to be having affairs with 14 different women. 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!). In 2001, he died of complications from heart surgery at age 74. And they prayed. It is easy to sit decades later and call that ministry a cult. 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. His influence was vast. ), 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. I have sat in his office and he in mine. THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES OWN DAUGHTER. 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. Also, the girl whom Schaap counseled across state lines was 16 when the abuse began. I believe that Brother Hyles knows that David had moral problems from the day he hit puberty, but it has never been dealt with. It's a TED Talk by Linda Murphrey. 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. All we ask is that you give proper credit. By this letter I wish to express my thoughts on the role you have played in these events over the past fifteen-plus years. - Receive these reports by email Torrent v.2. What makes a church a cult? Yellow buses lined back streets and alleys. Last September, Schaap, 54, a married father of two, pleaded guilty to taking a 16-year-old girl he was counseling at First Baptist across state lines to have sex. 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. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. And I was the one who was made to look like the bad guy in both instances. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. I knew the man. First, we see that refusal to separate from those who are immoral takes away the ability to protest their evil. Ohh! 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! 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. Linda Hyles-Murphrey - IMDb SEE RANK Linda Hyles-Murphrey + Add or change photo on IMDbPro Contribute to IMDb. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. We stayed with the Busbys for a few days, and then moved into a condo project near the school, where many other students were living. Release Calendar Top 250 Movies Most Popular Movies Browse Movies by Genre Top Box Office Showtimes & Tickets Movie News India Movie Spotlight. In fact, he has sat at my table in my home. Second, the fear of man brings a snare. He . 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. 2:02p, 6/2/16. 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. Former pastor of Temecula Valley Baptist Church, Temecula, California, Convicted in 1999 of molesting a 14-year-old girl. The true believers of the ultrafundamentalist Independent Baptist movement were accustomed to Schaaps style. I met him fresh out of high school. Tedd Butler, 47 Mar 20 2013. Add a bio, trivia, and more. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. As MinistryWatch reported in December, Jack Hyles' son, David Hyles, allegedly followed in his father's footsteps, and is now facing charges from women who claim he repeatedly raped them. 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. Tags: Crime & Law, Print-Specific Tags - Feature, Writers - Bryan Smith. Hyles, meanwhile, exerted extreme control over every aspect of his flocks livescontrol that members say they welcomed because they believed it was divinely inspired. How true it is. Don says: August 20, 2012 at 12:35 pm. 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. 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. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? helped salvage what was left of my self-respect. 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). 1. 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. In a show of modesty that would be almost unthinkable in later years, Hyles acknowledged that he didnt immediately set bushes to burning. . 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. YES. Older Comments. My understanding is that with all the stuff going on theyve done something with it. In 2000, Joseph was sentenced to 114 years in prison; Evangeline got 65. We thought to make him happy, we would hate her too. Its not even a valid comparison.. In passing, it is interesting to note that Hyles evidence against Vic is loose, unsubstantiated, secondhand, hearsay gossip from unnamed sources (Robert Sumner. 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. They are so influenced by him that I think if he told them that he was a black man they would believe him. 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. #6. Menu. 26 Many seek the ruler's favour; but every man's judgment cometh from the Lord. But thats what it is. I met him fresh out of high school. The author of this book, Cindy Schaap, has now divorced her husband b/c he's in prison. Many people have an attitude of, S. That boy had not one rule for his life. Women were to wear skirts that covered the knee. 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. 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. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. Unfortunately, it went well beyond talk. . The wrath of Hyles and his supporters again rained down. Further, this was not just one pastor. 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 site has more than 1,200 members, she adds. Nischiks letter, which he later publicized, said in part, MY HOME WAS TAMPERED WITH AND MY MARRIAGE DELIBERATELY WRECKED BY JACK HYLES. If you mean what you said, you have a lot of work to do. 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