Is Hyles a Bygone Issue?
July 8, 2025
David Cloud, Way of Life Literature, P.O. Box 610368, Port Huron, MI 48061
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Recently a pastor wrote the following:

“My opinion is I wish you would move forward from Jack Hyles and those who probably 75% of struggling Christians today have never heard of and help us with those today on tv and the circuit who preach a false gospel.”

A number of preachers have expressed to me the same thing in various ways.

I explained to this man that I have dealt with hundreds of men and heresies facing the churches and that“struggling Christians” need help with, and I have put most of that material online for free distribution.

I further explained that though Jack Hyles is dead, his influence among fundamental Baptist churches is vast.

We have documented this in the free eBook
The Hyles Effect: A Spreading Blight, www.wayoflife.org.

The book is a warning about a model of ministry that has spread very far. Hyles set the pattern for errors that remain rampant.

The book is a positive call to build biblical churches.

We desire to challenge preachers not to be man followers and man pleasers, to be Christ-centered rather than man-centered, to walk in the fear of God rather than the fear of man, to be serious Bible students and Bereans, to be Bible-bound rather than tradition-bound, to be passionate for Christ and Truth, and to reject pragmatism: whether it be contemporary church growth pragmatism or emerging pragmatism or Reformed pragmatism or fundamental Baptist pragmatism.

The book is a warning about the following:
  • Quick Prayerism
  • Promotionalism
  • Numbers-ism
  • The abuse of pastoral authority
  • Blind loyalty to man
  • Cover-up and deception and rampant immorality
  • Neglect of church discipline
  • The unrepentance heresy (characterized by the neglect of repentance or the re-definition of biblical repentance)



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