This "Academic" article about Jack Hyles quotes Jerry Falwell as praising Hyles:
"Falwell said that 'Hyles will be remembered as a leader in evangelism through the local church.' Falwell also said, 'He inspired me as a young pastor to win others to Christ through Sunday school, the pulpit, and personal witnessing. He made a great contribution to the calls [sic]
of Christ'".
Jack Frasure Hyles (September 25, 1926 February 6, 2001) was a leading figure in the independent Baptist movement. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Hammond in Hammond, Indiana, from 1959 until his death. He was also well known for being an
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More quotes from this article:
"Over the course of his nearly fifty years as a church leader, Hyles was criticized for sexual scandals in his church. His controversial doctrinal positions often put him at odds with other Christians; even with other fundamentalist Baptists. . . . In his book, 'Enemies of Soulwinning,' Jack Hyles taught that one could not be born again if any other Bible except the King James Version was used. . . .Robert Sumner, a Baptist evangelist and an author, accused Hyles of running his church in an authoritarian, almost 'cultist' manner in an article called 'The Saddest Story We Ever Published' in Sumner's 'The Biblical Evangelist' newsletter. Sumner detailed Nischik's charges and contended that Rev. Hyles has strayed from biblical teaching and into cultlike mind control." The article also references the accusations by Nischik and Glover, and the Ballenger case, etc.