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Tuesday, May 04, 2004
 | Periodically, I post an updated list on the FFF of who's been charged, who's been indicted, and who's been convicted of any of the numerous crimes committed withn the IFB movement by pastors and church staff members. For ease of reference, here is the list: |
- Russell Hirner has recently been added to the roll call. Charged with Child molestation.
Jim Vineyard, charged by a pastor with describing lewd sexual acts to a young lady (sexual harassment; not a crime because Vineyard "counseled" in private, although the Scripture clearly directs that private counseling is to be from older women to younger women). Vineyard has yet to deny the charge, but he did call the preacher who confonted him "buzzard puke". You can look up the incident in the Wicked Index. Look for the three part "Outed" series.
Andy Beith, principal of Liberty Baptist Academy in NW Indiana - sex with an 11 year old girl. Sentenced to 30 years, parole in 11.
Beith's father, also a graduate of HAC, was arrested His father was arrested a few years prior for soliciting an undercover officer in a local park. Made for interesting headlines. Imagine a Baptist pastor being arrested for such a thing. The media made the most of it, of course. [As they should have.]
Kerry was the name of the missionary who squabbled over the Spanish Bible and went to prison for molesting a little girl.
Calvin Stone, a HAC short timer sent to prison for molesting a little girl.
Overla, a HAC grad/pastor who pleaded guilty to molesting an 8 year old girl
Chester Mulligan, who is charged with molesting a 14 year old girl.
Not all of the following are HAC grads; they are all IFB-KJVO
Pastor Joe Combs, (found guilty, also defended by officials from Hyles-Andrson College)
Evangeline Combs (assault, not sexual)
Associate Pastor Timothy Lee Leonard, (charged but acquitted because
child-witnesses unable to testify; one child in the chuch had venereal disease, however)
Deacon Mark Foeller, (indicted but acquitted because witnesses refused to testify)
Deacon A.V. Ballenger, (found guilty; treated as a hero by Jack Hyles)
Youth Pastor Jeffrey Jerrell,
Administrator Joseph R. Strang, and
pastors Caleb Thompson (assault against a child, not sexual) ,
Joshua Thompson (assault against a child, not sexual).
All of those men have been charged with shameful crimes: an assortment of rape, child molestation, sodomy, and assault. And then, of course, there's Dave Hyles, elite adulterer and pornographer, also a product of that movement. He must have learned adultery at his father's knee, of course, because Jack was an old and experienced hand at it, and he also got off by bluster.
Dave spent several years at Pinellas Park Baptist Church AFTER having been expelled from Miller Road Baptist Church. He declared that he had repented and exercised some deception, though the church leadership failed to enforce Biblical discipline. They looked for words from Dave, made him write a letter of apology (a single letter, though he had engaged in affairs with over a dozen women). There was no longterm discipling, no accountability, no continuing effort to keep him, a man who had engaged in rampant sexual perversions that were no secret, under the care of church leadership. Needless to say, Dave strung along the leadership of PPBT for as long as they stayed gullible, which amounted to several years. They then caught him, expelled him, and he went to Berean Baptist Church, a predator, where he was admitted into membership without church discipline being enforced. After he was caught in sexual sin, he was expelled from the church.
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On another note. If you know of *any* IFB preacher who has EVER preached on the horrible wickedness of preachers (who claim to be bible believing) commiting adultery and/or having sex with children, and/or using porn, mail me a tape, and I will convert the sections to an MP3 and post it/them right next to the PREYING FROM THE PULPIT link on my blog. But I need more than a 30 second sound byte. I need a sermon that clearly condemns these things.
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On the FFF, a person named "Sandman" demands of me, "Since the IFB does not have any type of denominational administration such as the PCA or SBC, how is it that all IFB churches get lumped into a category?"
My answer: Because they are all equally unbiblical in their form of church government, and that form of "Baptist Pope" is precisely why the IFB denomination provides such a safe haven for predators. There is no accountability within the church to which the pastor is held, and there is no accountability between churches when members and former staff members transfer. Eldership in te Bible is a plurality of elders, and eldership boards communicated between churches.
