Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. Even when he was out of prison, he still pastored. Marriage is not a contract between two people; it is a covenant between a couple and God. Sentenced for multiple counts of child abuse and molestation He and his wife abused his adopted daughter with beatings, knocking out teeth and ramming them back into their sockets, repeatedly burning her with different instruments, and pulled out pieces of skin with pliers. ! CHARLES SHIFFLETT HYLES PROTEGE AND FANATICAL HYLES DEVOTEE / FORMER PASTOR OF CALVERY BAPTIST CHURCH IN CULPEPER, VIRGINIA Indicted on seven counts of abuse, including sexual abuse, and endangerment of children. After Jesus tried to beg God to attempt a settlement between God and man, the Father agrees only for Jesus sake. Convicted of Indecent liberties with a minor. The school, founded by evangelist Jack Hyles, promotes creationist, sexist, biblical literalist, and homophobic viewpoints. You have permission to edit this article. Copyright 2023 The Life and Times of Bruce Gerencser Powered by Flywheel, UPDATED: IFB Pastor Bill Wininger Outed as Sexual Predator, Earth 6,000 Years Old, but Once in a 100,000 Years Solar Event Sign of Gods Judgment, Let Us Prey: Big Trouble at First Baptist Church, read the letters Schaap sent to his victim here, Dr. David Tee Thinks Everyone Who is Not a Christian is an Atheist, Bruce, I Pray You Will Have Your Eyes Opened and the Truth will Guide You, Black Collar Crime: Evangelical Pastor William Tim Smith, Jr. They turned a blind eye to his crimes. As most of you know, Jack Schaap, former pastor of First Baptist Church, Hammond, Indiana, is serving a 12 year sentence in federal prison for having sexual relations with a minor. All over and done with. As a result of his influence, many children have been severely abused by their parents and wives have been abused by their husbands. If I were going to that church, I would not stop going to church just because of some bad people. One, for his trips to an Illinois forest preserve, was that he needed to spend time with God walking and praying. To explain his taking the girl alone to his Michigan cabin, he told his assistant that he needed to spend extended periods of time alone with the girl to save herboth literally and spirtually. Thousands would be baptized on certain Big Days, but FBCH wouldnt see the number of church attenders grow. HYLES BELIEVED AND TAUGHT A FALSE VIEW OF REPENTANCE, VIEWING IT AS THE SAME AS BELIEF. She writes the book A Wifes Purpose and then divorces Jack when she said she would always stand by him. 4. It was a bit cultish, in retrospect. He was one that taught that not even adultery was cause for divorce. On another point Im curious about what circumstances led you to cast off your fundamental beliefs and cast yourself into the agnostic arena. In order to get a head start in your preparation for upcoming examinations such as JAMB, NECO and WAEC, we have made available for you free past question papers that are relevant to this years examination. (Witnesses: Pastor Roger Voegltin Sermon Audio 42:10 Jack Hyles secretary). One of the statements in an advertisement for this conference reads: There is not a man alive who has personally won more souls to Christ than Dr. Bob Gray, Sr. They are bullies with no restraint. JACK HYLES WAS A HYPOCRITE AND A LIAR. If you are doing so much good for God, God has even more patience with you if you fall into sin. According to these witnesses, many HAC graduates and students living in the Hammond area are current wife and child abusers. Im so glad Jesus sent you by to tell us what to write and read. Hyles talked about praying to his dead mother. His actions speak for themselves. You can certainly look with great fear of judgment and fiery indignation because you have trodden under foot the Son of God, and counted the blood of the covenant as an unholy thing. http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/052806/met_21984591.shtml, http://archive.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=68354, CALEB THOMPSON SON OF THE LATE PASTOR HANK THOMPSON AT CAPITOL CITY BAPTIST CHURCH IN ARLINGTON, TX. Was sentenced for three counts of possession of stolen property, and was charged with burglary and theft. Where am I going to move you? Where are we going to get him another job? Where can we put him to make him a success quickly? Hyles wouldnt promise Paula hed counsel with Dave or anything, but was focused on damage control. Repentance is a true change of heart through godly sorrow (2 Cor.2:17). for 11 years. Even with the evidence, both Father and Son continue to pastor at their church. JACK HYLES TAUGHT MANY FALSE DOCTRINES, MANY WHICH BELITTLED SIN. Schaap engaged in disturbing and even pathological sexualization of such Bible teachings such as the Lords Supper and a Christians relationship to the Bible. 7) There was a door that directly and privately connected Jack Hyles office to his secretary Jennie Nischiks office where Jennie could go into his office undetected if she wanted to. With Jack Hyles himself, I wonder how many families and church members were damaged when he put adulterous pastors back in the pulpit? This philosophy became a doctrine that was almost a doctrine alongside of salvation, overlaid with Hear No Evil; See No Evil; Speak No Evil. http://prev.dailyherald.com/story/?id=243539&src=2, ERNEST WILLIS MEMBER OF TRINITY BAPTIST CHURCH IN CONCORD, NH, Convicted for forcibly raping his 15 year old teenage babysitter twice whom he knew through his church. http://www.wyff4.com/Ex-Children-s -Home-Director-Accused-Of-Sex-Assaults/6205096, JAMES BEN HARRIS SUNDAY SCHOOL TEACHER AND YOUTH WORKER AT BROOKWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH IN LAWRENCEVILLE, GEORGIA. She said her father was extremely abusive and was abusive for many years. Hyles would hold lavish parties for the Hyles-Anderson College girls and one of these parties cost $14,000. (What happened to the Holy Spirit?) 7 of them were only members or had attended FBCH. Instead the women got a message of knock yourself out for Jesus and abandon your family for the work of God and work well, work sick, but always work for the Lord. What are you qualifications to write about all churches views on divorce? Thats why it does not say, except it be for adultery. A prime example would be the case of Joseph and Mary. MANY CHURCHES ARE COVERING UP THE SINS OF THESE PERVERTS . You miss the point. http://www.star-telegram.com/incoming/article3824107.html, http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/20565519.html, JAMES KUBICEK YOUTH MINISTER AT FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH IN VALDOSTA, GEORGIA. He has been used of God to see 1,116,887 souls come to Christ while pastoring the Longview Baptist Temple of Longview, Texas. Somebody tell Jesus to get off the throne already. I was in prision and you visted me not. You are an intelligent man, and I can respect your view points with the hope that I can counter your arguments with intelligent, spiritual reasoning. At. Whatever her reasons, it is her decision, end of story. 502-6193752. Dont these pastors preach against this sort of thing (Of course they do)? http://www.wistv.com/story/15145189/reverend-accused-of-indecent-liberties-against-a-child, ROBERTO DE LA GARZA TEACHER AT CENTRAL BAPTIST ACADEMY OF CENTRAL BAPTIST CHURCH OF AMARILLO, TX. You never disagreed with Hyles publicly or privately. Pray for the family and pray for the victims in this. Why not look at what the bible says. A witness of FBCH said the people are programmed not to question their pastor or anything that comes out of FBC of Hammond He [Jack Hyles] and his family have always been held up before the people as above reproach! One person gave his testimony of many phone conversations he had with a friend who was a student of HAC. According to your personal interpretation, divorce because of adultery is permitted. When a person receives Christ as Saviour he is receiving Christ as lover Nothing symbolizes more of what God has with the believer like romantic, intimate, physical intimacies between husband and wife. http://articles.courant.com/2004-01-07/news/0401070414_1_youth-pastor-sexually-abused, JAMES JAY ROBINSON FORMER PASTOR AT SOUTHWOOD BAPTIST CHURCH, FORT WORTH, TX. Jack Hyles was a very prideful man who elevated himself constantly before his followers. The following is by Pastor Matt McPhillips, Court Street Baptist Church, Port Huron, Michigan, pastorcourtstreet@sbcglobal.net --. That is the way cults operate. Yet not once during our divorce did he reach out and try to reconcile us. Jack Hyles taught that children were to be severely punished if they were disobedient. 4. Boasting about numbers is such a serious sin, because of mans vanity, that God judged David when he set out to number Israels armies (2 Samuel 24:3-17) . Hyles told FBCH how open he is with his handling of the money in the church, yet he was clearly not open, but very secretive with the money that came in through Hyles Publications, a ministry that was under the nonprofit umbrella of FBCH, and he didnt even reveal this to the membership. Jack Schaap was born on 10/01/1957 and is 65 years old. Pleaded guilty to rape, kidnapping, involuntary deviate sexual assault, weapons offenses and related charges. If so, then I commend your sense of layered humor, ANONYMOUS in caps. He was right, no more than a few months later, the child was found dead. He almost never mentioned her in his sermons, and never bragged on her or used her in illustrations after the 1970s. The things Jack S. would say and his childish sayings and layghs. http://www.foxcarolina.com/story/17158940/deputies-greenville-man-molested, DANIEL ASHBY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ADMINISTRATOR AT COMMUNITY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL AT CALVARY COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH IN NORTHGLENN, CO. Investigation linked him to sharing child porn electronically. I went to Hammond Baptist High School with Cindy, she was nice, but this was a cult church! The repentance there is a turning from the thing that keeps him from being saved to the thing that saves him. He is a registered sex offender. He hired armed guards to remove concerned church members and blacklisted them. The HAC student had expressed many opinions about Hyles with one being God only is working through First Baptist and that church is needed if revival is going to take place in America if Jack were not around, no Americans today would be saved., (Voyle Glover p 114, 423; Jerry Kaifetz p 90; Testimony from a friend of a HAC student 11/3/01 rapid net.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hyles/testim.htm). Mulligan was considered a Hyles Man running his ministry in the style of Jack Hyles. (Voyle Glover p 4 (Bob Jones University statement), p 227 (Ed Nelsons letter), p 296-297 (George Godfreys published letter), p 444 (Walt Handfords letter); Pastor Roger Voegltin Sermon Audio 32:30, 33:25, 34:28, 35:40), JACK HYLES WAS A HYPOCRITE, ACTING COMPLETELY CONTRARY TO WHAT HE PREACHED, 1. She also knew that several of them went to Jack Hyles about their affairs with Dave and many parents of these girls reported Daves behavior to him as well. [2] The megachurch and school have been the subject of multiple instances of . Indicted and was found guilty of child molesting. (News Investigation Video: Preying from the Pulpit ; Testimony of a FBCH high school grad/former HAC student, a wife of a Hyles follower, 2 witnesses who were raised by fathers who where devoted Hyles followers, another wife of a Hyles-Anderson graduate, and 15 year member of FBCH 1/6/99, 4/8/99, 9/14/02, 11/2004 rapid net.com/~jbeard/bdm/exposes/hyles/testim.htm; Amazon Book Reviews: Profaned Pulpit September 19, 2013 by Amazon Customer, March 22, 2013 by Kim Nicks), IFB CHURCHES AROUND THE COUNTRY HAVE CHILD MOLESTERS, ABUSERS, AND SEXUAL PREDETORS IN THEIR PULPITS, AND CHURCH LEADERSHIP AND STAFF POSITIONS . Also, if you get many independent witnesses, who are all liars, to testify in court about one person who they say is guilty, you are going to get a lot of contradictions in their stories. The church knew that Jerrell had a history of assaulting women but paid him to travel alone to preach, representing the church, acting on its behalf and holding himself out to be a Baptist preacher. HE LIED FOR HIM AND PLACED HIM IN LEADERSHIP AND PASTORAL POSITIONS AT HIS AND OTHER CHURCHES, EVEN WHEN HE KNEW ABOUT HIS SONS WICKEDNESS. 4. He did not understand the gospel, either, so he was not born again.. James Calvin Schaap ( jschaap@dordt.edu) is a writer and professor of English at Dordt College, Sioux Center, Iowa. Hyles installed a personal private phone in Jennies bedroom. Morris, yes, fearful thing. There is a video clip that you can watch of Jack Hyles preaching. AND MANY ARE CONNECTED TO HYLES. No one should be glorifying a man like this. https://brucegerencser.net/2020/09/bruce-you-are-a-very-sad-and-bitter-old-man/. Throughout the investigation of law enforcement and criminal proceedings, Tom Daniels remained the pastor. It showed me that people at FBC were vindictive and would do anything to punish people even lie. Another former HAC student said, The inappropriate behavior of Jack Hyles is overwhelming. He never constantly put chunks of biblical meat on anyones plate. The pastor, associate pastor, and principle are facing charges for having failed to report the alleged crimes. So why would he financially back the continual separation of Vic and Jennie, encouraging them the live in a state of rebellion? 1. Dear Cindy could have been shagging the entire US airforce (though the suggestion is that any transgression on her part was at her husbands door) but that does not exonerate her husband in any way. One who is drunk or an adulterer is no different than one who is not reading his Bible. Bruce, Dare God to Reveal Himself to You. Hyles would preach about raising children right and that members could trust their children to him. I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for sexual immorality, and marries another woman commits adultery. Why not look at what the bible says. I personally believe, based on his great influence over many churches, that Jack Hyles philosophy has made a damaging impact to many of these churches. But my relationship is not dependent upon my performance as a son it is dependent upon Him. So, youre an apostate. 34 of these churches and leadership didnt defend or support the victims or their families. MANY HYLES-ANDERSON GRADUATES AND HYLES PROTEGES WHO BECAME PASTORS AROUND THE COUNTRY HAVE BEEN CHARGED AND SENTENCED FOR CHILD MOLESTATION AND ABUSE. (Starting at 1:13:10-1:16:30), Jack Hyles comes up to give his thank yous in regards to what made him great after the student body screams that they want Jack Hyles to get at least 50 years of serving in FBCH. BIBLE BAPTIST CHURCH OF WEST CHESTER, PA. He preached that his valleys are higher than most folks mountains, and that he preached to more people than any man alive. In six years, the teens reported 100,000 salvation decisions, though the youth Sunday School averaged only 2,500. He used word and concept associations that were sophisticated psychological techniques. Never alone with females, period. This was THE place God was working. (Note: some of them were guilty of molesting both boys and girls). A month later he pleaded guilty and received a 12-year sentence in 2013 under a plea bargain in which he avoided prosecutions in several states and a much longer prison term had he gone to trial and then been convicted. Were you able to negotiate a contract? 10. So sad to hear that! In Schaaps book Marriage: The Divine Intimacy, he interprets Davids verb laid in Psalm 119:30, Thy judgements have I laid before me, as follows: That word laid is a sexual term which literally means the same as a man laying with a woman. The Hebrew word of laid does not mean this even in the slightest. Bob Gray, Sr, the author of When Principle Was King: The Life Principles of Dr. Jack Hyles, was featured at a Bible conference in April 2012 at Faith Baptist Church, Oak Creek, WI. Whenever there was deviation from the set schedule, Jack Hyles arranged it. Her family had been church members since she was a child and entrusted her to Schaap for counseling her after she had been caught having sex with a teen boy. He also blamed his attorneys for not getting him a lesser sentence. Even with the knowledge of his sons habitual fornication, he still made him the Youth Pastor of FBCH, and allowed him to marry Paula, his first wife, without warning her. Yet, here you are commenting. What exactly is extreme sex drive? This is abuse. So you have faith Preacher and gave up the non-faith you once believed in? Let them talk about why they are bitter? CHRISTOPHER VARGO CHURCH MEMBER AT HAMPTON PARK BAPTIST CHURCH IN GREENVILLE, SC. 10. Hyles repeatedly says in his many sermons, Now this is something new, this is something that youve probably never heard before. Only cults use that kind of language. But he had his own reasons for a cover-up. A former staff member who started the Blind Department at FBCH, and personally helped Jack Hyles by doing different jobs for him, claimed that he knew about Dave Hyles having sex with girls at hotels from Daves youth department. Hyles wanted the college girls to treat him like an idol by singing songs to him like We love you preacher, oh yes we do, we dont love anyone as much as you. He is quoted as saying that Diety is helpless in the work and redemption without humanity. He was released from prison this week. 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