My Memories of and Musings on HAC / FBCH

For about a year, after work I would go by Sauzers Restaurant across from Tiebels at 30 and 41. This was sometime maybe around 11PM. This was after curfew, and was definitely against the rules. I wonder how many demerits that all adds up to. Over the course of about a year.......
 
For about a year, after work I would go by Sauzers Restaurant across from Tiebels at 30 and 41. This was sometime maybe around 11PM. This was after curfew, and was definitely against the rules. I wonder how many demerits that all adds up to. Over the course of about a year.......
I barely remember Sauzer's. You mean you would get off work and go by for coffee and pie? I mean, that just sounds like an act of maintaining one's sanity. You mean the rule was that if it was after curfew, you weren't allowed to make a stop on the way in? I really would like to get a copy of the handbook from those days or even, now. I have forgotten so many of the rules for living!!
 
The one time that dancing was almost allowed at HAC was when the Bears were on the way to the Super Bowl. How so many IFB adherents knew the "Super Bowl Shuffle," I'll never know. Yes, I was (am) one of them.
Bro. Hyles was a pretty big sports fan. I remember when I was there that he had Bill Madlock of the Chicago Cubs speak at the church. Madlock won four batting titles and was no lightweight. We also had Olympic gold medal wrestler Ben Peterson speak.
 
Calvary Chapel folk are dead set against Halloween. I've heard some pastors and radio personalities rail against it.

Myself, I used to get into it but over the years, I've completely lost all taste for it (except when it comes to the mini KitKat bars). No preaching or teaching caused me to change my mind on it... I just lost interest in it.
I know all the arguments, but I've never seen the harm in letting the kids dress up like cowboys and Indians and trick or treat. I did it when I was a kid and Satan didn't grab me.
 
I know all the arguments, but I've never seen the harm in letting the kids dress up like cowboys and Indians and trick or treat. I did it when I was a kid and Satan didn't grab me.
That's kinda how I look at it. If you want to trick or treat, go for it. (Just share your Kit-Kats with me please.)

I've just lost interest in Halloween.
 
Bro. Hyles was a pretty big sports fan. I remember when I was there that he had Bill Madlock of the Chicago Cubs speak at the church. Madlock won four batting titles and was no lightweight. We also had Olympic gold medal wrestler Ben Peterson speak.
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Bro. Hyles was a pretty big sports fan. I remember when I was there that he had Bill Madlock of the Chicago Cubs speak at the church. Madlock won four batting titles and was no lightweight. We also had Olympic gold medal wrestler Ben Peterson speak.
No question about Hyles loving his sports.
 
I barely remember Sauzer's. You mean you would get off work and go by for coffee and pie? I mean, that just sounds like an act of maintaining one's sanity. You mean the rule was that if it was after curfew, you weren't allowed to make a stop on the way in? I really would like to get a copy of the handbook from those days or even, now. I have forgotten so many of the rules for living!!
She is no longer active on the Forum, but Teri in NC kept a stash of all things HAC/FBCH from the early '80's.
 
I barely remember Sauzer's. You mean you would get off work and go by for coffee and pie? I mean, that just sounds like an act of maintaining one's sanity. You mean the rule was that if it was after curfew, you weren't allowed to make a stop on the way in? I really would like to get a copy of the handbook from those days or even, now. I have forgotten so many of the rules for living!!
Oh, yes, that's what I mean. One could have a pass to be out past curfew for work....... then head straight to the dorm. Then you had a half hour to hit the rack.
 
Oh, yes, that's what I mean. One could have a pass to be out past curfew for work....... then head straight to the dorm. Then you had a half hour to hit the rack.
I believe it was 3 demerits if you failed to sign in or out. 50 demerits if you were caught kissing. At 50 demerits, you were campused. Chewing gum was 2 or 3 demerits. Were we given demerits for being late to class or chapel? Can't remember.

5 demerits for not going soulwinning (I think?)

100 demerits and you could be expelled.

I remember getting demerits for hanging my pantyhose on the end of my bed so they would be dry in the morning. (eyeroll intended)
 
I laugh at this now. I got demerits because my room mate used baby powder all over floor. Miss Shelhart is the best she took them off.
 
Seems kind of strange that the president of a little Christian college would feel the need to have body guards with K9 guard dogs surrounding him. Really strange.
I was born and raised in FBC...I can remember when I was rather young, Bro Hyles would talk about how he was "on the KGB hit list".....like #1 or #2....lol.....as kids we were terrified that the Russians were going to burst into every service with their guns blazing. But boy....the people believed it all.... He was a legend in his own mind in many ways....
 
I was born and raised in FBC...I can remember when I was rather young, Bro Hyles would talk about how he was "on the KGB hit list".....like #1 or #2....lol.....as kids we were terrified that the Russians were going to burst into every service with their guns blazing. But boy....the people believed it all.... He was a legend in his own mind in many ways....
You had to have been there in that time. I remember his "bodyguards" waiting on him to come out of his office on the way to the pulpit and how they walked with him that fifty feet in the alley that connected the office wing to the auditorium. We thought he needed protection like the president and he encouraged it.

As a kid, I believed him. But, I wonder now about the "seasoned" adults who believed him as I did. To me, his credibility was those 4,000 people who were sitting in the seats every Sunday taking in all of those stories. Now, I believe that those stories were 90% concocted.

I think he did have a slight case of mental illness as many brilliant people do. And he WAS brilliant in his own way. He had a Walter Mitty complex, craving to be the hero of every story. I once heard that his own kids laughed among themselves that so many of the heroic tales he told (in which he was the hero) happened when he was out of town.
 
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I remember his "bodyguards" waiting on him to come out of his office on the way to the pulpit and how they walked with him that fifty feet in the alley that connected the office wing to the auditorium.

Reminds me of a hip-hop star and his entourage, maybe worried that a rapper from a rival label that he dissed was going to shoot him.

Maybe he thought the ghost of J. Frank Norris was going to rise up and pop a cap in him.
 
Reminds me of a hip-hop star and his entourage, maybe worried that a rapper from a rival label that he dissed was going to shoot him.

Maybe he thought the ghost of J. Frank Norris was going to rise up and pop a cap in him.
I have actually know a few people in my life that in a progressive manner began to confuse the reality of their lives with fantasy. They began to TRULY believe things that were obviously untrue about themselves. It leads to a bad end.

I can't say that I KNEW Jack Hyles. I'm not sure than many can lay claim to that, because he kept a lot of secrets. But I think he may have had that issue and because he had a wide sphere of influence, it affected a lot of people.
 
I know he preached in one direction and totally lived another. Alot of people left because of dh and his life style.
 
I know he preached in one direction and totally lived another. Alot of people left because of dh and his life style.
I think more members left FBC in the early 90's because of DH than left in '89 because of the Nishchick allegations against Bro Hyles
 
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