It's a TED Talk by Linda Murphrey. At Ballengers sentencing hearingdelayed three years by appeals, during which time he resumed working in the bus ministrytwo women testified that Ballenger also molested them when they were young. You are also welcome to use excerpts from the articles. She was never charged with a crime, nor was Hyles. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. Trisha LaCroix, the former Hyles-Anderson student and one of the sites administrators, says she has heard from hundreds of people who have shared stories of abusemental, physical, and sexual. 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. The stick was displeasing God, a message hammered home virtually every Sunday. She was sickened and literally brokenhearted, she told me, when she heard about her brother-in-laws arest. 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. He lifted a stick in his left hand and a silver cloth in his right. He said that he didnt know he had broken mans law but knew he had violated Gods law. With that, he entered a guilty pleaand was immediately escorted to Porter County Jail to await sentencing. Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience. COLUMBUS (WCMH) The Gahanna Division of Police says a woman found dead in her residence on Brookhill Drive was most likely the victim of a murder-suicide. I entered a bit after the 6 p.m. start time, ducked past the crimson-coated ushers, and found a seat in what I eventually realized was the section reserved for the deaf. This is what happens to preachers who continue to associate with men like Hyles and their defenders. The site has more than 1,200 members, she adds. 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. Find out where to go, what to eat, where to live, and more. [email protected]. He divorced his wife and married one of the 14. He was so interested in mine and Davids personal relationship. She claims that Dr. Hyles died after having amassed $80 million dollars worth of real-estate buildings at the church. And, says Kaifetz, he got a heros welcome. David was a blatant liar. He divorced his wife and married one of the 14. Subscribe for free today! Eddie Lapina is the one controlling the pastor. Outbursts of anger, an unwillingness to brook criticism, and a penchant for ironfisted control were also part of his repertoire. Twisted scripture, Northwest Indiana-style. When Nischik confronted Hyles in 1985 and demanded that he leave his wife alone, she filed for divorce at Hyles insistence. 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. The culmination of many events in our lives brought us to the decision that we have made to move. 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. Founded in 1887, sleepy First Baptist had a mostly well-to-do congregation, many of whom commuted to jobs in Chicago. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions I've ever made since. There are still many, many victims out there, says Busby, herself involved with a group of former First Baptist members who have their own abuse stories. She left the church after alleging that Schaap behaved inappropriately during marriage counseling sessions in 2004 through 2009. "For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. When the word of God wasnt enough to entice kids into the buses, recruiters plied them with ice cream, goldfish, pony rides. 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. 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. 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. He told lies that he couldnt possibly get away with. 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. 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 had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. Having been an independent fundamental Baptist preacher for nearly 40 years, I am convinced that Bigism and Big-Manism is a major disease. He left everything to the organization, which my younger sister and her husband now lead. First Baptist had become a nationwide phenomenon, dubbed a superchurch by Time. And there is grace.. The answer is definitely yes and there are a hundred people who know that. Linda Hyles-Murphrey photos, including production stills, premiere photos and other event photos, publicity photos, behind-the-scenes, and more. My father tried desperately to cover it up. 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. He had affairs. Two days after arriving, I met the man, Brother Phil Sallie, who was in charge of workforce assistance. And it shall be done., Critics are skeptical. Former pastor of Gospel Light Baptist Church, Walker, Michigan, Convicted in 2006 of molesting a five-year-old boy, 2. The age at which such punishment should begin? There should have been a cry against him from every Bible-believing Baptist pulpit in America. Unfortunately, it went well beyond talk. Then, his voice dropping to a guttural whisper, he said, Oh, oh, God. Its not even a valid comparison.. Abused her. He was beyond the bounds of what was appropriate, says Brennan. After serving in the army in World War II, he married his sweetheart, Beverly Slaughter. 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. Much of our material is available for free, such as the hundreds of articles at the Way of Life web site. We thought to make him happy, we would hate her too. It was going to be me and my big mouth that ruined my marriage, not Davids actions. The belief was that women needed to be in complete and total submission to their husbands and to male leadership, says a former member who requested that she not be named. 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. Why he lies about that I will never know. Yes, they havent slept together in probably 25 years, they dont share the same bedroom, they dont speak. He got up in front of a staff meetingin front of the whole staffand shared all kinds of confidential stuff that never should have been shared. 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. Linda Hyles Murphrey - The Jim Baumer Experience. Denied bond, he awaits sentencing in the Porter County Jail; the minimum term is ten years. One of the girls told me and Daves sister that she was sleeping with him, and we told his dad. Incidentally, Paula and I have volumes of stories to swap, and it is interesting to see just how similar they are. 57, 58). www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. . I believe First Baptist Church gradually evolved into a cult that was in complete idolatry of my father and, after his death, complete idolatry of Jack Schaap, she says. 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. 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. [Hyles] took your voice, he took your beliefs, he took your likes and dislikes and opinions, and he gave you his own. The writer claims that she was a victim of emotional abuse and was snubbed by the upper class. I told his dad about that. Linda Hyles Murphrey on the cult her father created. 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. He did what he wanted to do. 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. Join Facebook to connect with Linda Murphy and others you may know. My dad pastored a church that evolved into a 50,000-member cult. He left nothing to his children. 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. Open Letter to First Baptist Church Hammond Indiana. That boy had not one rule for his life. Hes never said that he loved Mrs. Hyles. last year) recognize that it is clearly a cult. 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! 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. Brother Evans daughter was one of the ones that David had an affair with. Andy Beith, 40 In 1985, Stevenss 15-month-old son, Brent, was found lifeless in his crib. If we have our eyes on Christ and our own personal responsibilities before Him, we will not stumble when men fail us. You call him an adulterer. He owned our homes, our cars, our furniture. Their offices each had a door opening to the hallway as well as the private door connecting the two rooms. They also corrected a previous repo He was so interested in mine and Davids personal relationship. I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. Theres a world of difference between a cult of personality and a cult. That boy had not one rule for his life. We hated her. He died a multi-millionaire. I asked Rick Ross, whose nonprofit institute maintains an online archive of data on cults and controversial movements. 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. Mar 20 2013. He promises that there will be no cover-up. 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. 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. 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.. 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. Tag Archives: Linda Hyles Murphrey Walking Away. THE TRUTH is that all the property belonged solely to the First Baptist Church of Hammond. Men were to wear jackets and ties and close-cropped hair. But yes, there is most definitely a door. He built her family a beautiful home right around the corner from our house. 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. Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange. 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. Several people who grew up at First Baptist recall that parents took the instruction to heart. . 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. 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). Nischiks letter, which he later publicized, said in part, MY HOME WAS TAMPERED WITH AND MY MARRIAGE DELIBERATELY WRECKED BY JACK HYLES. He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . 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. Facebook gives people the power. Apr 8, 2013. 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 dont care how overbearing he was. 2:02p, 6/2/16. What I cant comprehend is telling a lie that so many people know is a lie. Other items we sell to help fund our expensive literature and foreign church planting ministries. 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. With your own insecurities and personal failures as your driving force, you have quite simply played havoc with an entire church, some of my dearest friends and worst of all, my family. Another philosophy of his is that he doesnt want to hear anything, because then he doesnt have to deal with it. Then, she makes claim for Linda to claim Linda was abused is a self-centered cry for attention and demeaning to those who were actually abused. He had a mistress for many years, the wife of a Sunday School teacher. In fact, the church had by then built its own grammar school, middle school, and high school. In an incredibly short amount of time I have healed much and think I would surprise even you with the strength I have gained. 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." Either by her own choosing or by inability or by unreasonableness, she never did meet those expectations. 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. 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. Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? Meanwhile, the churchs lawyer, David Gibbs, has called for other victims to come forward with their stories. He will abhor that which is evil (Rom. 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. In the early 1980s, David Hyles, then in his 20s, was the youth pastor at First Baptist. You are free to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. It was simple, but daunting, and that was to keep all the secrets, and there were so many. 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. My understanding is that with all the stuff going on theyve done something with it. Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. It is also an outrage that both Hyles and Schaap were allowed by the church leadership to have such power over a local church. . And all this barely half an hours drive from downtown Chicago. 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! 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. [This was before Jack Schaap got caught in adultery with a teenager.] I dont know if there is right now. Back at First Baptist, prayers for Brother Schaap have been asked for and received. As to getting to the truth of the issue of Jack Hyles, lets not listen to his deacons, of whom he bragged publicly that they would have jumped off a bridge if he told them to do so. I thank God for giving me the sense to decide not to become one of the neurotic puppets you employ. Jack Hyles wouldnt live to see Mulligans conviction. But, of course, I'm not telling you anything you don't already know. Were there problems, particularly in the latter years? Charles V. Shifflett, 61 Instead, she continues, he was allowed and encouraged to perpetuate what my father began: idolatry, secrecy, adultery, and a harshly punitive culture based on an endless list of legalistic rules that served the man of God. Not Godor at least not a God that I would want to know.. 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. . 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. Former pastor of Emmanuel Baptist Church, Bristol, Tennessee, Convicted in 2000 of kidnapping and abusing a minor, 5. 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. I knew the man. He hated my mom. It probably is one the most significant (and difficult) decisions Ive ever made since. Treated her terribly. Never. 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. Infancy. Including Linda Murphrey, Hyless daughter. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061, ack Hyles is dead, but his life and testimony matters. Hyles certainly had enemies -- back then, more so. Oh! He had affairs. I met him fresh out of high school. Id been told that there was assistance at Hyles-Anderson in finding a job. I used to joke that people would not rearrange their living room furniture without help from Brother Hyles, says Jerry Kaifetz, a former teacher at First Baptists Pastors School who left the church around 1990. Fourth, our attitude toward sin reveals the condition of our hearts. 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!). With God's help, I will make my life in California everything that He would have it be and, unlike you, will not fall. He returned to the Chicago area, to Bolingbrook, moving in with a woman named Brenda Stevens. Lawyers are trained in using minor mistakes to draw attention away from major facts. (I had also been instructed to carry a Biblethe King James Versionbut I couldnt find my mothers and so arrived empty-handed.). Thanks for what youre making me.. He never had restrictions on his life. 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. The 1990 book details the affair and many other misdeeds, including a Watergate-like coverup of affairs and sexual abuse at First Baptist. In fact, he has sat at my table in my home. His daughter, Linda Hyles Murphrey, recalls her mother and father arguing over his many affairs with church members. One of the things I know about organized religion is that reality regularly falls far short of the ideal. 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. Sincerely,(Signed Judy Johnson). (DeCoster left the egg industry in 2011 after his companys products caused a massive salmonella outbreak.) . In facthe turned to Johnny Colsten, one of the men on the stage with himId like for you, if you dont mind, to drink this.. Early in my life I learned that there was one thing that could kill a festive mood at a dinner party. Note: You may want to go get the tissue box before watch. Lowest rating: 1 . (You know well the horrifying effects doing so can cause, don't you?) 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. . We hated her. Brother Cloud lives in South Asia where he has been a church planting missionary since 1979. While Schaap was from a more prosperous family, in all important ways he was a virtual Hyles clone. 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. Leverages . The earliest memory of my mother's affair with Jack Hyles that I can remember dates back to the 1960's. When Nischik confronted Hyles in 1985 and demanded that he leave his wife alone, she filed for divorce at Hyles insistence. I was called the Antichrist and worse, Glover says. 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. The preacher quoted 1 Thessalonians 5:22, Abstain from all appearance of evil, but Hyles brazenly replied, My people need to trust me.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.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. You are welcome to make copies of these at your own expense and share them with friends and family. This is a truly sad case. 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. 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. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigated, but the cause of death could not be determined. The approach resonated deeply with rural Texans longing for a return to old-time religion. At Hyless prompting, the congregation gave him a standing ovation. I went to him twice about things I had heard about Dave. He did what he wanted to do. 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. God will hold a metaphorical knife to your throat (as Schaap would illustrate by holding a steel blade against a twig the way an assailant might press on a jugular). YES. If it were not so, the Bible would not thrice warn in the New Testament Epistles, Be not deceived.. Chicago magazine newsletters have you covered. As the bible saysBe sure your sin will find you out.This is such a sad thing to have happened. Lowest rating: 1 . He taught us that to please him we had to keep all the secrets. 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. He told lies that he couldnt possibly get away with. You had to really look. Walking away from fundamentalist Christianity was a pivotal event in my life. 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