Movies. Also, the girl whom Schaap counseled across state lines was 16 when the abuse began. Head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut, mouth gaping, he began rubbing the shaft rapidly with the cloth, up and down, up and down. There should have been a cry against him from every Bible-believing Baptist pulpit in America. (The previous are excerpts from Dave Colemans Interview with Paula Hyles Polonco, first wife of Jack Hyles son Dave, November 1, 1989).THE TESTIMONY OF JACK HYLES OWN DAUGHTERThe following is excerpted from Linda Murphreys testimony at the TEDxOjaiChange event in Ojai, California, April 5, 2012. Why he lies about that I will never know. One of the girls told me and Daves sister that she was sleeping with him, and we told his dad. [Hyles] took your voice, he took your beliefs, he took your likes and dislikes and opinions, and he gave you his own. Hyles kept close watch over the colleges curriculum to make sure it met his standards and was suitable for export to churches across the country. Breaking Free: Linda Hyles Murphrey Speaks At TEDxOjaiChange. In 2001, he died of complications from heart surgery at age 74. On the basis of Dr. Hyles own admissions, I rest my case about the massive cover-up of sin under his leadership. You only know about him from a distance and years later. Another common characteristic of cults, Ross says, is that they use shame and some sort of exploitationfinancial, spiritual, or sexualto exercise control. First, there was the expectation that the school provided . Linda Hyles Murphrey's testimony is a clear indication of just how wounded those closest to Jack Hyles can be. If a man doesnt want to believe something, he simply will not believe it. 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. 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, The Wizard of God: My Life With Jack Hyles, pp. 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). Your idol is a false one. In fact, the church had by then built its own grammar school, middle school, and high school. That decision and my close friendship with your ex-daughter-in-law (you remember her, don't you?) These are sharable. I met him fresh out of high school. Be the first to contribute! (I had also been instructed to carry a Biblethe King James Versionbut I couldnt find my mothers and so arrived empty-handed.). 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. But neither did he dwell on compassion. Our pastor back home had given us a point of contact. There were so many mothers who went to him who David was having affairs with and told him. YES. 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. Do I have any reason to believe that the Hyles dont love each other? . 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. But all that needs to happen is for the right pastor to come alongi.e., a man with a strong, charismatic personality who is a leaderand boom! That reknown enabled Hyles to begin crisscrossing the country as the de facto leader of a loose coalition of Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches. My older brother became another version of my father. Yellow buses lined back streets and alleys. 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. 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. Though the sermons werent nearly as sexual in the beginning, says Schaaps former editor, he was seductive. The age at which such punishment should begin? A link to the original report is very much appreciated as the reports are frequently updated and/or expanded. Never. 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.If you mean what you said, you have a lot of work to do.I'm Jennie Nischik's daughter. The true believers of the ultrafundamentalist Independent Baptist movement were accustomed to Schaaps style. 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. 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. Eddie Lapina was witness to all of that. 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. 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. With God's help, I will make my life in California everything that He would have it be and, unlike you, will not fall. Twisted scripture, Northwest Indiana-style. 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. And even turned his own children against their mother. We can see men, but we cant see the Lord except through faith, and the preacher who is not walking by faith in Gods Word will be a man pleaser. Hyles made driving out these northern liberals his first priority. This is why the atheist doesnt believe in God and why the devoted Roman Catholic doesnt believe his church is apostate. But those who have left, the followers who have tried to leave, the outsiders, even the media (it was on. Author: jimbaumerexperience.com. He built her family a beautiful home right around the corner from our house. While Schaap was from a more prosperous family, in all important ways he was a virtual Hyles clone. For information see: www.wayoflife.org/about/makeanoffering.html. Our primary goal with the FBIS is to provide material to assist preachers in the edification and protection of the churches. According to a blog called Fallen in Grace, written by someone identifying himself as David Hyles: I have no intention of defending myself. - Receive these reports by email [This was before Jack Schaap got caught in adultery with a teenager.] This is what happens to preachers who continue to associate with men like Hyles and their defenders. He was chased from a job running the Sunday school at a church in Pinellas Park, Florida, over allegations of more affairs. Back at First Baptist, prayers for Brother Schaap have been asked for and received. 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. I believe that Brother Hyles knows that David had moral problems from the day he hit puberty, but it has never been dealt with. (The bus ministry still operates today.). 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. I was one of those chocago kids who rode the bus to church went to the church camp and youth camp went to all the church funtions and went to the highschool not once did anything inappropriate happen! 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. Another person who is keenly aware of the lure and peril of personality is Murphrey. He hated my mom. 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. 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. 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 built her family a beautiful home right around the corner from our house. Did Davids dad know that he was adulterous before we went to Texas? My father tried desperately to cover it up. Brother Evans daughter was one of the ones that David had an affair with. He lifted a stick in his left hand and a silver cloth in his right. Never. Oh! 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. When I think of him sitting in a jail cell right now, my heart can hardly handle the ache. They didnt dare disagree or be disloyal, for fear of being publicly ridiculed or punished or banished for doing so. It probably is one the most . Money poured into the church in other ways: the tithes collected each Sunday, a book-publishing arm, and various conferences and seminars. Personally, my worthless opinion is that Linda did not like her home life. With these thoughts expressed, I bathe myself of you and any influence you may have had on me in the past. 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. Linda Hyles Murphrey on the cult her father created. Dont get me wrongI certainly believe Jack Schaap is guilty of a crime and deserves punishment. I dont care how overbearing he was. 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. Schaap continued to rub the stickup and down, up and downand converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. 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. They will no doubt tighten the reins some, says Glover. The author of this book, Cindy Schaap, has now divorced her husband b/c he's in prison. Some of the abuse that Glover described in his bookas many others would later allegewas perpetrated by Hyless son. Disillusioned, he wrote Fundamental Seduction: The Jack Hyles Case. 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. The earliest memory of my mother's affair with Jack Hyles that I can remember dates back to the 1960's. Another occasion was the girl who was working at the cemetery. You exemplify everything in this life that I do not want for myself, my marriage or my children. Apr 8, 2013. Now if I walked up to you tonight and I said to you, Ive got something I want you to drink . He did what he wanted to do. . Way of Lifes content falls into two categories: sharable and non-sharable. The sister that Linda Murphrey mentions, is Jack Schaap's wife, Cindy. 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! He owned our lives, and we didnt dare cross him, because we were too afraid we would lose everything. For the benefit of any doubters, Hyles demonstrated his power in the middle of a sermon one Sunday. Whatever awkwardness he may have had soon gave way to his extraordinary oratorical gifts. But not before a child he fathered with Stevens died under odd circumstances. Sermons on the scandal rang out from pulpits across the country. Subscribe for free today! Meanwhile, the churchs lawyer, David Gibbs, has called for other victims to come forward with their stories. ________________There was definitely a door between their offices [Jack Hyles and Jenny Nischiks offices]. Hes never spoken of her in endearing terms. Incidentally, Paula and I have volumes of stories to swap, and it is interesting to see just how similar they are. Note: You may want to go get the tissue box before watch. He died a multi-millionaire. Brother Evans daughter was one of the ones that David had an affair with. Hyles-Anderson College appears to be struggling, too. We never double dated. Abused her. 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. 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 had affairs. It is also an outrage that both Hyles and Schaap were allowed by the church leadership to have such power over a local 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.So, best of luck. Instead, the silence was golden, and it still is. About. I about laughed in his face. We could never even tell our best friends what went on in our home, because we might be the cause of the destruction of his ministry. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the world more open. If it were not so, the Bible would not thrice warn in the New Testament Epistles, Be not deceived.. And it shall be done., Critics are skeptical. Its hard to believe. My understanding is that with all the stuff going on theyve done something with it. I take my hat off to Linda Murprhey and applaud her moral courage. 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 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. I about laughed in his face. In passing, it is interesting to note that Hyles evidence against Vic is loose, unsubstantiated, secondhand, hearsay gossip from unnamed sources (Robert Sumner. All we ask is that you give proper credit. 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. We never double dated. (He says he is not familiar with the details of First Baptist.) PacifistAg. What was it that you used to say, 'Little leopards have spots because big leopards have spots'? She claims that Dr. Hyles died after having amassed $80 million dollars worth of real-estate buildings at the church. If you mean what you said, you have a lot of work to do. . Id been told that there was assistance at Hyles-Anderson in finding a job. In a show of modesty that would be almost unthinkable in later years, Hyles acknowledged that he didnt immediately set bushes to burning. 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 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! 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. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email. Maybe you could start your investigation there.Both Terry Duff and Eddie Lapina can help you fill in the details. In 1998, Joseph D. Combs, a former Bible teacher at Hyles-Anderson who had become a pastor in Tennessee, and his wife, Evangeline, were convicted on multiple charges of aggravated abuse, assault, and kidnapping of their adopted 11-year-old daughter. 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. You could see their family from our back door. That decision and my close friendship with your ex-daughter-in-law (you remember her, don't you?) When you do submit, be prepared to endure excruciating pain. I felt like I had one main responsibility as a child. Jack Hyles was the cult leader and he . Excrement was left on his doorstep. He came and went as he pleased. I knew the man first hand. You call him an adulterer. 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