The Truth About IFB Baptist Pastor Jack Hyles

Jack Hyles Personal Life and his Ministry was full of Scandal after Scandal. The Hypocrisy of Jack Hyles supporters is BOLD and Shocking. A typical Hyles supporter: “Yes, yes, I know. No one is perfect…” These same people have no problem Exposing and dragging other Pastors through the mud. The more I talk with Hyles supporters, people who attended his Church before he died and after, the more I realize they did not know Jack Hyles Theology.

They sat in the pews listened to him Preach seemingly everything went in one ear and out the other. Because after talking with them it was obvious they did not know what Jack Hyles Believed.

Jack Hyles Bio

“Jack Frasure Hyles (September 25, 1926 – February 6, 2001) was born and raised in Italy, Texas, a small, low-income city in Ellis County, south of Dallas. Hyles often described his less-than-ideal upbringing which, he said, included a distant father. At the age of eighteen, Hyles enlisted in the United States Army and served as a paratrooper with the 82nd Airborne Division during World War II. He and his wife, Beverly, were married during the war.

Hyles was a leading figure in the Independent Baptist movement. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from August 1959 until his death in 2001. He was well known for being an innovator of the church bus ministry that brought thousands of people each week from surrounding towns to Hammond for services. Hyles built First Baptist up from fewer than a thousand members to a membership of 100,000. In 1993 and again in 1994, it was reported that 20,000 people attended First Baptist every Sunday, making it the most attended Baptist church in the United States. In 2001, at the time of Hyles’s death, 20,000 people were attending church services and Sunday school each week.”

Jack Hyles move to Hammond, Indiana

In 1959, Hyles moved to the church-provided parsonage at 8232 Greenwood Avenue, Munster, Indiana, and became the pastor of First Baptist Church of Hammond. When he arrived, the church had a membership of about seven hundred, many from affluent backgrounds. About a third of the members left the church after hearing Hyles’ preaching style, which was very different from that to which they had been accustomed. Hyles then led the church to its status as an Independent Baptist church—freeing it from its ties with the American Baptists. Hyles started his bus ministry and soon shepherded the church from a congregation of several hundred to more than 20,000. In the early 1990s a national survey ranked First Baptist as the largest church in the nation, by average weekly attendance figures.

Beginning in 1969, and continuing for several years, First Baptist received recognition for the size of its Sunday School. In 1969, Elmer Towns wrote a book called The Ten Largest Sunday Schools and What Makes Them Grow which analyzed First Baptist’s Sunday School. Towns presented a plaque to Hyles in 1971, naming First Baptist Church of Hammond the nation’s largest Sunday school. In 1972, and for several years following, Christian Life Magazine proclaimed First Baptist Church of Hammond to have “the world’s largest Sunday School”.

Jack Hyles Huge Ego. His Bus Ministry One Lie after another.

Jack Hyles Bus Ministry, his Children’s Ministry and his Sunday School Ministry were all about Hyles Huge EGO. He was obsessed with Numbers. He Gloried in Falsely Claiming huge weekly Soul Winning Numbers. Workers in his Ministry were publicly recognized and rewarded for their Soul Winning totals.

What Jack Hyles Soul winning method was:

“Get in the door… Put your foot in the door and do not let the door close on you. Always Pray the Sinners Prayer, even if they are not Praying with you, before you Leave.”

So every door a Hyles member went to was counted as people being Saved. The same method is used with Alter Calls at the Church. Some one will Pray a Sinners Pray with them and they will be Counted as Saved. Children from the Bus Ministry are treated the same way.

Forcing a Sinners prayer on People, Yes these Prayers were said despite often being objected to, is not Salvation. I have been in the Christian Ministry for 40 years and I can sense when someone is agreeing with me just to move me along, not because they care about anything I am saying. You do not coach someone in saying a Sinners Prayer like Jack Hyles teaches that will not result in a person being Saved.

If someone Asks me to pray with them. I make them tell me how a person is Saved, without Coaching. If they Believe and understand the Gospel I tell them you have it, that is right. You do not need me to Pray with You.

The Jack Hyles Soul Winning Method is Phony.

It does not Save anyone. To be Saved a Person has to be under Actual Conviction from the Holy Spirit of God. They have to have a real understanding of the Gospel and their need for Salvation.

Below is Proof from Jack Hyles that he was Lost. Jack Hyles never Saved anyone. His whole Ministry was one Huge Lie.

Jack Hyles taught what most IFB Baptist Teach Repent of Sin to Be Saved.

I was Saved with the Good News for Modern man Bible. I was taught the Gospel. I believed the Gospel only to Save me.

Like all Cults they contradict themselves they hold up John and Charles Wesley, Jonathan Edwards, Billy Sunday, Charles Spurgeon and many others as having been great men of God that preached hard against Sin. None of these men were KJV only, they used other versions of the Bible. All these men were Lost, Jonathan Edwards and Charles Spurgeon being Calvinists.

Sin is their focus, not Jesus. I have seen a Pastor run women out of the Church who were just visiting the Church because they were wearing pants. The Pastor called them Whores right to their face. He said I will not allow Whorish Women in my Church to tempt and to corrupt the men of my Church

They coined Easy Believism to say that people who Simply Believed the Gospel only to Save them were, seeking to be able to live in Sin. Anyone who did not make Jesus the Lord of their Lives were not Saved. “If Jesus is not Lord of All, than he is not Lord at All.”

Below is a note I wrote to a friend of mine who Loves Jack Hyles. He doesn’t care about all of Hyles Scandals. He denies Jack Hyles taught Repent of Sin. Even Jack Hyles own 1962 book on Soul winning did not convince him. He told me maybe early ( This book on Soul Winning was the Foundation of Jack Hyles Ministry. This is was what Jack Hyles was taught in his youth. Jack Hyles never rejected The Repent of Sin False Gospel.) on Jack Hyles wrote that book and believed in Repent of Sin to be Saved. But the majority of his Ministry he taught the Gospel Only for Salvation.

My Note: Jack Hyles never rejected his 1962 book on Soul Winning. As far as I know many years after his death it is still for sale by the Sword of the Lord. I bought my copy from the Sword of the Lord just 2 years ago. If a world famous Pastor rejects a popular book / booklet that he has written he would have the publication of that book stopped. He would write a book refuting his former False beliefs and Teachings. Being Wrong on Salvation in 1962 would say that Jack Hyles was not Saved in 1962. When was he really Saved then?  No Jack Hyles was a Wolf in Sheep’s clothing. He, like all False Teachers, constantly contradicted himself. I find it strange how you will defend False Teachers. You will admit some of their False teachings then you will excuse them by going to a different book they wrote. You falsely say they recanted their False Teachings using a different book as proof. You have not shown that I have seen where these False Teachers have Said that they were Wrong and they had changed their False Teachings / Beliefs. They certainly never made any public confessions of being Wrong and having pushed a False plan of Salvation. Someone who admits they are Wrong will make sure everyone knows they were Wrong. They will pull from circulation all Books, videos and audios of their False Teachings. The people you defend as having rejected their False plans of Salvation have not done that.

False Teachers will teach the Truth to break into Churches.

To attract people in IFB Churches in Baptist Churches in mainstream Churches so they can later Teach them their False plan of Salvation.  People like Charles Spurgeon, Dr. Peter S. Ruckman have books long in publication and Sermons in print and on audio and video that teach different plans of Salvation for the Christian Church.

Jack Hyles Said you can only be Saved with a KJV Bible.

I was Saved from the Good News from Modern Man Bible. The Bible Says you do not even need the Bible to Be Saved.

Romans 1:18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; 19 Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:

Jack Hyles Denies Jesus Died for our Sins. Proof Jack Hyles was a Lost False Teacher.

Jack Hyles Accepting and Encouraging his congregation to Worship Him. Lies about Soul Winning. Sexual Perversion from the Pulpit.

Evidence that Jack Hyles had a life Long Mistress. Child Molestation, Many Crimes…

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJFEiE4GKkvApQEXnELm41r7RvRpbOnnW

People need to understand what these Cult Churches believe and teach so they do not fall prey to them. Or so they can get out of them.

How to Be Saved:

Acts 16:30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

The Greatest possible Question and Answer.

Question? What must I do to be Saved?

Answer: Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

If you Believe the Bible is the 100% True word of God than this is how a person is Saved, period! Plus nothing else.

When you read the Bible you need to look at the entire context of the verse you are using.

Acts 16:25 And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

26 And suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations of the prison were shaken: and immediately all the doors were opened, and every one’s bands were loosed.

27 And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

28 But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm: for we are all here.

29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas,

30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?

31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house.

32 And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

What does it mean to Believe on Jesus? To Believe on Jesus you Believe what the Bible says about Jesus.

John 6:63 “It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

I want to focus on “… the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.”

The condensed meaning is Jesus Words are Alive. A spirit is Alive. “… they are Life.”

They are Life means that Jesus Words are what gives us Eternal Life.

John 1:1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

2 The same was in the beginning with God.

3 All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made.

4 In him was life; and the life was the light of men.

Jesus is literally the Living Word of God. The only Way to Heaven. JESUS ONLY. Not Jesus plus anything else.

John 14:6 “Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.”

John 3:14 And as Moses lifted up the serpent in the wilderness, even so must the Son of man be lifted up:

15 That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

18 He that believeth on him is not condemned: but he that believeth not is condemned already, because he hath not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God.

19 And this is the condemnation, that light is come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil.

20 For every one that doeth evil hateth the light, neither cometh to the light, lest his deeds should be reproved.

21 But he that doeth truth cometh to the light, that his deeds may be made manifest, that they are wrought in God.