Last year, he was chastised for his views on women, believing them to be an inferior species and saying husbands should take charge of their wives and blasted Eve as being the sinner.
He also said it would be a 'cold day in hell before I get my theology from a woman', adding: 'Your soul is going to hell because of what Eve did. Typically, mega-churches have more than 2, members or regular attendees, with several areas to listen to sermons, often with one or more pastors speaking during a Sunday service. Many of them feature contemporary worship styles, with live music complete with worship band, and sometimes even an orchestra pit.
Mega-churches have also received a fair amount of criticism, as some say they focus more on entertainment than on worship, and that large numbers detract the amount of time pastors can spend with the congregation. First Baptist is housed in the old federal courthouse building in Hammond, Indiana, and contains an auditorium that seats 7, No comments have so far been submitted.
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Dramatic new testimony from third Mother-of-two, 56, died after waiting nearly an hour for ambulance as she screamed at call handlers Outbursts of anger, an unwillingness to brook criticism, and a penchant for ironfisted control were also part of his repertoire. He used his temper as a form of control. The approach resonated deeply with rural Texans longing for a return to old-time religion. Within a couple of years, his flock had swelled to 4,, earning Hyles a far-reaching reputation.
Founded in , sleepy First Baptist had a mostly well-to-do congregation, many of whom commuted to jobs in Chicago. A seemingly endless list of rules—both written and unwritten—grew and multiplied.
Men were to wear jackets and ties and close-cropped hair. Women were to wear skirts that covered the knee.
Trisha LaCroix, who attended Hyles-Anderson College, says that she was disowned by her parents—First Baptist members both—in part for daring to wear pants. Rock music was out, of course, as was any music with a syncopated beat.
The Bible was to be interpreted literally and by Hyles alone. According to his reading, men ruled absolutely. She left the church in after her husband, a prominent member of the congregation, was caught having sexual relationships with underage girls. He soon took it upon himself to arrange marriages.
One area in which Hyles—a father of four—exerted particular control was child rearing. In this, his views were severe unto merciless. Using biblical passages as justification, Hyles preached that spanking was more than tolerable; it was a sacred duty. The age at which such punishment should begin? Several people who grew up at First Baptist recall that parents took the instruction to heart.
But in the process of hollowing you out, he made you very weak. While reshaping the morals of his followers, Hyles also set about empire building, Independent Baptist—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. The stick was displeasing God, a message hammered home virtually every Sunday. In fact, the church had by then built its own grammar school, middle school, and high school.
In 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. Among the best and brightest of the early students—a young man who would eventually win the blessing of Jack Hyles to marry his youngest daughter, Cindy—was Jack Schaap. That reknown enabled Hyles to begin crisscrossing the country as the de facto leader of a loose coalition of Independent Fundamentalist Baptist churches.
People lined up to give cash to him and his only son, David, who was following in his footsteps. Money poured into the church in other ways: the tithes collected each Sunday, a book-publishing arm, and various conferences and seminars.
The influx of cash enabled First Baptist to buy large parcels of real estate around Hammond—and enabled Hyles to buy loyalty.
By the late s, the church was reaching its apotheosis. Attendance peaked in the early s, when more than 20, people came to services each Sunday, making First Baptist the largest church in the nation. The level of devotion—and control—sometimes strayed into the absurd. The pajama-clad young women would gather in the chapel to wait for Hyles. Oh yes, we doooo. Yet they would drop us off in rough neighborhoods for eight hours on our own to go soul winning.
For the benefit of any doubters, Hyles demonstrated his power in the middle of a sermon one Sunday. Colsten, currently an associate pastor at First Baptist, did not hesitate. If Hyles wanted him to drink, he would. The bombshell exploded with apocalyptic force in May Sermons on the scandal rang out from pulpits across the country.
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. Hyles thunderously denied the charges and denounced his accuser, Victor Nischik.
Voyle Glover, an attorney and longtime church member, was not among the defenders. The wrath of Hyles and his supporters again rained down. Excrement was left on his doorstep. In the early s, David Hyles, then in his 20s, was the youth pastor at First Baptist.
Whispers began that he was having an affair with the daughter of a high-level administrator at Hyles-Anderson College. Backed into a corner by a he-goes-or-I-go ultimatum from the administrator, sources say, Hyles arranged for his son to take over as pastor at his old church, Miller Road Baptist in Texas. The new pastor was soon kicked out after allegations that he had more than a dozen affairs with churchwomen, many of them married.
His wife, Paula, divorced him. He returned to the Chicago area, to Bolingbrook, moving in with a woman named Brenda Stevens. The autopsy revealed trauma and numerous broken bones in various stages of healing. The Illinois Department of Children and Family Services investigated, but the cause of death could not be determined. At a grand jury inquest, David Hyles exercised his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination.
The case remains unsolved; Paul Ciolino, a former DCFS investigator now in private practice, says he is still pursuing leads. Scandal followed the younger Hyles. He was chased from a job running the Sunday school at a church in Pinellas Park, Florida, over allegations of more affairs. But not before a child he fathered with Stevens died under odd circumstances. She was never charged with a crime, nor was Hyles. I hope you will really think hard about this question. Her husband Jack was gone ALL the time.
Who was meeting their needs? Yes, Jack fell — and is disgustingly gross — but his wife did not help the situation. She never wanted to go with him — she wanted to book her OWN conferences. Just sayin! Oh yes — she is. Believe me — it takes two..
He was not keeping her happy, and she was not keeping him happy. So yes — she is to blame and he is to blame. So now she is compounding the sin by the divorce??
Did she even ask him if he still wanted to be married to her? If not — then boot his hiney out the door. No matter. You miss the point. Was it how she dressed, In places in the Middle East women and girls are raped all the time, and they have to wear burquas. Jack shapps victim was underage, and he was way older and in a major spiritual position of influence as her pastor, and he took advantage of her,. As far As the former mrs schaap, jack schaap got into major trouble in prison for some sick public stuff he tried to do with a female visitor, it see,w that it was his wife he did this too, In front of everyone.
Jack schaap was a total pervert long before he messed around with this underage kid, just look at his sermon about on the polished shaft, and read his books on marrige, pretty blasphemous stuff of a sexual nature,.
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. If not for you, but for the next person who may tread the path you went through. Are you saying this is a mitigating factor? Yet, here you are commenting. Are Christian pastors meant have sex with a minor? So does love commit sex with a minor? And why is it that often such practices are only admitted by these authoritarian Fundamentalist churches, once these evils are exposed?
Why is no one questioning why this decree is in NC and that the parties are shown as NC residents? The plaintiff established residency in NC, which is what is required in legal matters, before filing for divorce in her state of residence. What difference does it make which state she is living in or that she has moved to a different city in another state from where her father established his corporation?
IBF huh? Why did you decide to use an acronym to lump all Independent Churches in one group. I would ask you to make a correction on this moot point you have made. I hope its not intentionally done, just irrationally put together. What are you qualifications to write about all churches views on divorce? Why not look at what the bible says. I will remain you that independent churches operate as a group as they do not often take their doctrine from the declarations of a man, most independent churches, regardless of the denomination operate on those principles.
I hope you will understand and correct the inaccuracies contained in what I have read here today. Otherwise you run the risk of providing false information to others which they may use to make a pre concieved judgment.
I will remain you that independent churches operate as a group as they do not often take their doctrine from the declarations of a man, most independent churches, regardless of the denomination….
There are some Christian denominations. Each one insists it is right, and only it. The bible teaches you to hate gays, but also teaches that homosexuality is fine. It says nothing about abortion, yet abortion is almost universally opposed. In short, it is of no assistance in offering even the faintest guidance to our modern day to day existence.
Bruce was up to his neck in this for decades, pastoring numerous churches. So his opinion is hardly one to be dismissed lightly. Feel free to email me if you want more info, not gossip, just truth. You dare willfully sin and advocating against the faith of little ones? If you truly received the knowledge of the truth, then there remains no more sacrifice for your sins. 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.
It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Prepare for the Devil and his angels! Bring it on, Morris the Hateful servant!
You have not one iota, one speck of proof for even the existence of your Hateful Boss. He taught you well. Aw shucks, let me play too? Unholy and delusional thou art and shall suffer, oh yes, suffer beyond your wildest fears… Wow, this is kinda fun…reminds me of childhood! This genius has strung a bunch of Bible verses together, using them to threaten me with God, judgment, and Hell.
He might as well as strung together various sentences from one of the Harry Potter books as to do the same with the Bible.
Hyles passed away. The things Jack S. Cover of book written by Cindy Schaap about her wonderful marriage to Jack Schaap. Cindy is the daughter of Jack Hyles. Good for her…. I taught Cindy in school. Very sorry to hear all this mess. What a piece of crap you are. The latest dirt? You gossiping Jezebel. Rick, the term gossiping Jezebel tells your ugly heart story, you patriarchal bully asshole. Divorce is allowed in the Bible in cases of infidelity. She was in the right.
Spiritually sound.
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