Let Us Prey

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Barnett described Hyles as a tremendous soulwinner and a great influence throughout the Chicago area. Hyles attracted praise, an honorary doctorate, and other accolades throughout the course of his life; he also was the subject of frequent criticism. The Washington Post compared the "meek" preaching style of Jerry Falwell to the "spit and fire" of Hyles. With intense compassion, Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals lets its speakers (including Nanette Miles) detail this religion’s monstrous beliefs and practices, name its most vile cretins, and point a finger at church superiors—such as Grace Baptist Church’s Jon Jenkins and Faith Baptist Church’s Bruce Goddard—for shielding these criminals and their conduct from children, parents and law enforcement.

The books featured on this site are aimed primarily at readers aged 13 or above and therefore you must be 13 years or over to sign up to our newsletter. Money poured into the church in other ways: the tithes collected each Sunday, a book-publishing arm, and various conferences and seminars.A fire-and-brimstone fanatic, Hyles is seen in multiple scenes smashing TVs, decrying critics, and blaming women for enticing men with their short skirts and skimpy bathing suits, the latter of which were expressly forbidden. For a time, he worked as an insurance agent in the Jacksonville, Florida, [40] and has been accused of having multiple affairs spanning many years. The flock grew to include prominent business leaders such as Austin “Jack” DeCoster, the former egg mogul who by some estimates has given tens of millions to First Baptist and has two church buildings named for him. Paul is a normal bloke from South Shields who has faced real mental hardship but has figured out a way to cut through to the other side. Remarkably, Ben described in intimate detail his manipulations and scheming, his perverse fantasies and desires in numerous journals and diaries, providing a unique insight into the mind of a psychopathic personality.

This book deals with Ben Field, one of the most disturbed and disturbing individuals ever to emerge in the pantheon of criminals. McGuire’s younger sister, Sherri Munger, told me she once received more than 300 lashes from a thick leather belt. She told me: “He used to joke around about ‘drinking the Kool-Aid,’ but that was never funny to me because I knew that those people really would have done anything he told them to do. I appreciated all the background information about the victims and how it didn't just focus on killer.The true believers of the ultrafundamentalist Independent Baptist movement were accustomed to Schaap’s style. In a show of modesty that would be almost unthinkable in later years, Hyles acknowledged that he didn’t immediately set bushes to burning. At this point, the sermon’s 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. 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. What he was doing was unmistakable: simulating masturbation, in front of thousands of children, in the middle of a church service.

Its ugliness is equaled by the additional narratives featured in Let Us Prey: A Ministry of Scandals, be it Amanda Householder’s unthinkable upbringing with parents who ran an IFB academy like a house of horrors, or the separate repugnant ordeals suffered by April Avila and Rachel Peach at the hands of Victor Monteiro—the very pastor hired to replace Fox. The civil suit filed in Lake Superior Court in Gary claims the woman was "induced by agents" of the church in 1991 to ride a bus to attend Sunday school at First Baptist and when she was in the care of the church she was sexually assaulted, molested, battered and raped more than once until 1996. And it's not because he's worried about where to sit, and making friends, and fitting in, or not knowing where the loos are.Founded in 1887, sleepy First Baptist had a mostly well-to-do congregation, many of whom commuted to jobs in Chicago. This audiobook helps people to master English pronunciation and intonation and helps to make their speech clear and easy to understand. The Calvary Contender wrote, "Hyles will be remembered as a one-of-a-kind, ever controversial leader whose ministry touched the lives of multitudes.