Just John said:
Binaca Chugger said:
Um..... No...... Blue Denim and Lace was not about child rearing. It was more personal philosophy, Bible reasoning and prose and devotionals. You must be thinking about How to Rear Children (or Infants or Teens). Check your facts before you use them.
I would invite you to read Chapter 46 of BLUE DENIM AND LACE titled "REARING CHILDREN". I know my facts. I read this 35 years ago in high school and laughed then too.
Okay. Like 7 pages, most of which are letters, and like 8 points. Again, more personal philosophy. However, you are right, he did right books on child rearing.
Just John said:
Binaca Chugger said:
As an outsider looking in, this must be hard to understand. However, those who understand the system get what I am saying. Bro. Hyles would tell the minions he wanted to have a big day. The minions would go to their ministries and challenge their underlings. The underlings lay the pressure on the HACker. The HACker needs to perform to get the notoriety and escape the scorn. The HACker does not make up numbers, but does some fuzzy math and prays with people who did not really understand to get a count. The count is turned in to the underling who reports to the minion who reports to the preacher. Preacher reports the total number. It is a flawed system. I get it. But especially in his latter years, the minions ran the place beyond his control.
Everyone else knew this but Hyles? And "Hyles wanted the big day". Yes, I am an outsider but I have read the FFF faithfully for the last 12 years and can't count the times I've read stories of kids going through baptism lines two or three times....in just one weekend, to get goodies and multiple times of exaggerated counts...in parks and other places counted as "Sunday School". It would seem to me that they were giving Hyles what he wanted, his "big day" and seems a bunch of people knew what was going on but he never did? Yes, I am cynical. This is the problem when churches are predicated on "numbers". I may be a bit less of an outsider than some. I was close friends with Jim Vineyards stepson who graduated from school there (and who knew Dave Hyles
quite well). I went to a big Baptist church and school clone of all-things Hyle on the west coast that practiced some of the same nonsense.
I am not stating that this was a perfect system. The system was flawed. The leader of a flawed system must accept some blame. But to assume JH himself was running those kids through the line just to get candy or even himself promoted such is just wrong. What you are describing is the result of a flawed system that I previously outlined. By the time I was old enough to know which way is up, JH was a figurehead who preached in the service. We never saw him outside of the pulpit (Yes, this is a bad way to pastor and I would guess such disposition also led to stress at home). I stress again, the minions ran the place with the goal of earning preacher's favor and often promoted or pressured to get numbers which resulted in bogus junk taking place.
Just John said:
Binaca Chugger said:
Like I said, you may be right. However, you can't take away some of the real threats that actually happened. Security developed after the arson at his home.
Cool to have those guys around? The most disrespected group of Barney Fife's ever assembled (and that's an insult to Barney Fife - this group made Barney look like 007)? This group was incapable of getting hired by a real employer and got convinced they were performing a sacred mission of protecting their preacher by their scamming leader who got his jollies to a poster of the Little Mermaid and led his hench-dweebs (they certainly were not men) to be just as twisted. What exactly could this "coterie of bodyguards" do? Now YOU sound like a HACker because only a real HACker had any respect for that group - and only a few of them!
They couldn't ALL be that bad because SherryH's husband was one and I'm sure that's not the case with him.
I have no respect or disrespect of his security staff. I said "I'm sure it's pretty cool to have the coterie of bodyguards to do whatever needed at times". If his security staff is typical of many, if not most ad hoc security teams they also served as glorified go-fers and hired help which is likely the case given your comments.
I have no idea who SherryH is, though she seems quite polite and pleasant to everybody on the forum. It appears that she and her husband were in HAC during the 80's? Maybe security was different back then. By the 90's, it was rotten to the core. Wait, I knew like 4 guys who were decent people who did short stints in security during that decade.