Timeline of Unresolved
Problems at Moody
(they need to get corrected or MBI can crash)
www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-timeline-of-issues.htm
www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-timeline-of-issues.pdf
This is part 2 of the Project to restore
Moody Bible Institute (MBI) to its roots and foundation. This article includes
a timeline of events that are currently hurting Moody Bible Institute (January
2018), and need the Moody family to work together to correct.
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Hello brothers
and sisters in Christ,
Welcome to part 2
of the project and conversation on how we together can work to restore Moody
Bible Institute to its roots and foundation. This process is *not* easy, but my
team and I believe if we work together, we can help restore Moody, before it
crashes. If you missed part 1, you can find that information here:
www.RestoreMBI.com/Restoring-MBI-to-its-roots.htm
www.RestoreMBI.com/Restoring-MBI-to-its-roots.pdf
So, picking up
where we left off, I want to next show a timeline of things that I have been
able to find in various blogs and discussions, including various news articles.
Problems that the top-leadership is so far ignoring – to the extent that they
have fired and are firing 30+ employees in the faculty and professors to
suppress the truth in unrighteousness. That is what the unsaved do – it should
not be named among the honest followers of Christ… but sadly, in many places,
this is their wicked normal. Many from all across the country have described
this pattern of clergy – in the last 10 to 15 years, and my team has witnessed
it a lot, and not just in Orlando.
“16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the
power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also
for the Greek. 17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed from faith to faith; as it is written, "The just shall live by faith."
18 For the wrath of God is revealed
from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress
the truth in unrighteousness, 19 because what may be known of
God is manifest in them, for God has shown it to them. 20 For since the creation of the
world His invisible attributes
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead,
so that they are without excuse, 21 because, although they knew
God, they did not glorify Him
as God, nor were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their
foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they
became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God
into an image made like corruptible man--and birds and four-footed animals and
creeping things. 24 Therefore God also gave them up to
uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among
themselves…” (Romans 1:16-24)
> That is how
the wicked act… that’s not supposed to be the pattern we see right now of the
“leaders” of the righteous followers of Christ who are growing in holiness.
This needs to be brought into the light and discussed openly until it’s
corrected.
An elder or
leader who is doing sins (especially when they are trying to cover them instead
of repent) needs to be exposed publicly.
“17 Let the elders who rule well be counted worthy of
double honor, especially those who labor in the word and doctrine. 18 For the Scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it treads out the grain,"
and, "The laborer is worthy of his wages." 19 Do not
receive an accusation against an elder except from two or three witnesses. 20 Those
who are sinning rebuke in the presence of all, that the rest also may fear.”
(1st Timothy 5:17-20)
And Jesus taught
this first:
“15 Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault
between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established.' 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let
him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. 18 Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven.
19 Again I say to you that if two of you
agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it
will be done for them by My Father in Heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
(Matthew 18:15-20)
As you can see
here in Jesus’ words, the context is within the church body, and includes the
church leadership. Moody is indeed in the scope of the passage, and their
leaders need to be handled that way. Mrs. Julie Roys and Mr. Richard Weber are
just 2 among quite a few who have done the first step – they went to them
directly. We now need people to join them, and do the second step “two or three
witnesses”. If the leaders do not listen at that point, we need to remove them.
As I have said before and say often, it’s going to take a team. What my team
and I would like to see personally, is for witnesses to be working together to
hold these leaders accountable, and as they do, others would still be getting
information out (as appropriate) to the faculty, students, and alumni so they
too can be a part of the accountability process too. These leaders have already
shown a pattern of bury information instead of correct and repent. So, be
direct. Record what they say. Publish it so others can hold them accountable
too. The top-leaders are trying to hide conversations – we need them quoted so
tough action can be taken by the honest followers of Christ so things can
become right in God’s sight and so that God can bless Moody again.
It is on that
note that I would like to look at issues that need to be address by the Moody
body, including the trustees, the staff, the alumni, the students, and the alumni
and donors, issues the top-leadership is trying to cover up, instead of
correct.
If you do not
know how to help with the accountability conversations, at very least please pray
for consequences to catch up to these crooked top-leaders and that they get
fired by the Moody alumni and staff, and that the honest ones who were fired
wrongly get re-hired, as they are willing. All of us need to pray this way.
“3 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war according to
the flesh. 4 For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but mighty in God for pulling down strongholds, 5
casting down arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against
the knowledge of God, bringing every thought into captivity to the obedience of
Christ, 6 and [God is] being ready to punish all disobedience when your
obedience is fulfilled [complete].” (2nd Corinthians 10:3-6)
“9 Let
[your] love [for Christ] be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is
evil. Cling to what is good.” (Romans 12:9)
So let’s look at
some of the unresolved problems.
* Before 2006
As of 2006, it
came to light that Mr. Jerry B. Jenkins had an exclusive suite for him and his
family on top of the Jenkin’s Hall. In 1999, Mr. Jenkins had donated an
undisclosed amount to help build this building, and also requested the board
remodel the top 2 rooms to be a livable suite for him and his family to use on
occasion. The key issue was that he and his family had exclusive use of it, and
used it more as a second home, rather than just a “when we’re in town” as he
had originally said and was agreed upon (details of which are still questionable).
When enough pressure spoke up in concern, he finally had to give up exclusive
use of it… but many questions are left unanswered. What all happened in that
suite that only Mr. Jenkins and his family and a two to three maintenance
people had access to, above one of the teaching halls? With the level of
corruption involved here, there are serious concerns here for anyone in youth
and college ministry background. Serious issues. Was
there sexual misconduct going on? Was there sexual sins going on? Who all was
involved? We need a thorough investigation of this one for sure. Maybe the professors
who teach on abuse at the Chicago campus can conduct an investigation. If not
them, then someone needs to. Sins don’t just harm a few – they harm many. And
some sins harm deeper. And sins covered allow abuse to continue – if/when it is
going on.
> https://julieroys.com/moody-bible-institute-facing-unprecedented-crisis-please-pray/
* In 2009
Mr. Paul Nyquist
(then president of MBI, who resigned early January 2018), obtained a $500,000
“loan” from Moody to start payments on a 1.8 million dollar condo. In the years
following, there was no proof that Mr. Nyquist attempted to repay the loan, but
he did get a pay-increase in the years following.
A reminder, Mr.
Nyquist’s unethical “borrowing” of money is not only illegal, but also cost
Moody Bible Institute (MBI). MBI years later (2017), had to close their
Spokane, WA campus as well as their extension campus in Pasadena, CA.
* August 2013
Under Mr.
Nyquist, Mr. Jenkins and Mr. Lutzer, and the top-leadership changed the rules
for the MBI staff that they could now engage in alcohol and tobacco. The ban
was finally lifted. Mr. Greg Thornton told Mrs. Julie Roys that the gambling
ban had not been lifted, as per request of her and others. Mrs. Roys
investigated and found Mr. Thornton’s words to be dishonest – the
top-leadership had snuck the change through without informing anyone outside
their little circle.
> https://religionnews.com/2013/09/19/moody-bible-institute-drops-alcohol-tobacco-ban-employees/#
Adding to this, Mr.
Jerry B. Jenkins is indeed the world-renowned author with some very troubling
anti-Biblical teaching in the popular book series that he co-authored with the
now deceased Tim Lahaye, that is “The Left Behind” series. One key
false-teaching in the “Left Behind” series is that some people can take the
mark of the beast and still be saved, a false teaching that violates 4 passages
in the Book of Revelation, including the words of an angel, including
Revelation 14:9-11, Revelation 16:2, Revelation 19:20-21, Revelation 20:4. Additionally,
Mr. Jenkins has been caught gambling and then deceiving to cover it and
downplay it. Despite getting caught, Mr. Jenkins was still able to retain his position
as chairman of the board of trustees for MBI, until 2015. From what we can tell, and as witnesses in MBI have said, so far no proper
correction action has yet been taken concerning Mr. Jenkins.
> https://world.wng.org/2013/10/not_bluffing
A reminder, this
issue is not yet resolved, but Mr. Greg Thornton (the man who orchestrated for
Mrs. Julie Roys to be wrongfully fired) is now acting president of MBI. Yes, as
you can see, the top-leadership is trying to cover up sins, instead of leading
the guilty parties to confess and walk in repentance and holiness. To get to
that stage, it’s clearly going to take a team. Let’s work on getting this
resolved properly and Biblically.
An additional note
here: the level of corruption as shown in just these 3 events mentioned above –
that level of corruption, coverup, and suppressing the truth - is what has led
to a downturn in enrollments and the lack of trust. Corruption and coverup have
led to that – not a supposed lack of wanting Biblical education, as Mr. Nyquist
made up to try to cover the corruption he was involved in. So, yes there is
corruption, but if we work together, in prayer and with God’s Word, we are sure
that we all can get this resolved and see Moody Bible Institute restored to the
Biblical foundation that DL Moody built on, and the covenant with God that it
was based on.
>> And,
speaking of corruption… there’s more to discuss and inform on.
* November 2017
Just before
Thanksgiving 2017, Mr. Nyquist (who was still president at that time), gave an
announcement that 30+ employees were being fired. The oddity is that it seems
none of them were given an explanation of why. But, before that time, the
top-leadership of MBI was creating a “culture of fear, intimidation and
retaliation”. So, my team and I are trying to amplify Mrs. Roys
question: why?
In my investigation to try to find a list of those fired, it seems the list of
who’s fired is not publicly available. So, I did my own research from 2 past
lists – one from 2014, and one from 2015 and compared it to today’s current
list in 2018. I found 26 employees were fired or are no longer working at Moody
since 2015. And, I also found that 17 new employees were hired since 2015 (some
of those came from the Spokane, WA Campus, as some of their descriptions note).
The gap in information here for me is that I cannot right now tell who all is
being fired, because (at least) Mr. Weber got a notification of being fired,
but he’s still listed on the MBI faculty list. I was able to assess from one of
Mrs. Roys’ articles that some of those fired will be losing their job at the
end of this semester. This team thinks that some people need to find out who
else is being fired, and why. And help the honest employees and professors who
are being wrongly fired to try to keep their jobs.
The current situation
at MBI that Mrs. Roys and a others have explained is
this: anyone asking questions or commenting that something is wrong Biblically,
is getting threatened or fired – student and faculty. At the same time, Mrs.
Roys shows quite clearly that some teachers who do not believe the Bible are
being protected. So… the question still lingers about the rest of those being
fired? Who else is being fired and why? Are they being fired to continue
covering corruption? Are there others who are helping the top-leadership cover
the corruption? If so, how many? We do see quite
clearly that the top 3 leaders stepped down (Nyquist, Mogck, and Venugopal), but
Mr. Greg Thornton is continuing the progression to fire those who were trying
to hold those men accountable and to try to limit the corruption and damage. The
current evidence shows whistle-blowers and honest employees are being fired,
and that raises many serious legal issues for the individuals in the
top-leadership.
> https://julieroys.com/breaking-mbi-president-provost-coo-resign/
> https://julieroys.com/three-top-leaders-anything-really-changed-moody-bible-institute/
> https://julieroys.com/mbi-professors-affirm-inerrancy-depends-definition/
Those fired or who lost their job at Moody
between 2015 and 2018.
Julie Roys
Rimon Armaly
David Bany
Haley Batt
Ronald Belisle
Jayanthi Benjamin
Lindsey Branson
Wally Cirafesi
Jonathan De Jongh
Ronald Denison
Timothy Gregory
John Hart
Brian Jaworski
Raju D. Kunjummen
Elizabeth
Lightbody
William Marty
Craig Masselink
Sajan Mathews
Walter McCord
Gary Rownd
William Torgesen
III
Cynthia
Uitermarkt
Michael
Vanlaningham (“Dr. V”)
Julius Wong Loi
Sing
Christopher Yuan
>> And now
we come to the fast-paced events and scandals since the beginning of 2018.
* January 4th,
2018
Mrs. Julie Roys
published a well-thought out start of questions that need good answers, and
brought some of these buried unresolved corruptions back to notice and stirred
some important discussions.
> https://julieroys.com/moody-bible-institute-facing-unprecedented-crisis-please-pray/
* January 6th,
2018
MBI replied in an
article on Christian Post, downplaying the information and evidence of Mrs.
Roys and others as “inaccurate” and “incomplete”.
* January 8th,
2018
Mr. Greg Thornton
emails Mrs. Julie Roys telling her she is fired, but giving no explanation or
reason for Julie losing her job. Those of us who are keeping up with this
situation know that Mr. Thornton was working with and is partnered with the
same old leadership and fired her wrongfully, though for her part, she was just
being consistently faithful and righteously persistent in pressing to see the
corruption stopped and corrected.
> https://julieroys.com/three-top-leaders-anything-really-changed-moody-bible-institute/
> https://www.moodyradio.org/upfordebate
* January 8th
or 9th, 2018
The problem for
the corrupt top-leadership is that Mrs. Roys was currently out of state with
her family on a pre-planned and pre-scheduled vacation to Cancun, Mexico. So,
the corrupt leadership could not obtain her laptop and try to bury this
corruption better.
* January 10th,
2018
MBI board meeting
meets as scheduled. The board decides to accept the resignations of Mr. Paul
Nyquist, Chief Operating Officer (COO) Steve Mogck, and the retirement of
Provost Junias Venugopal. It is the concern of this INCPU/FEDBP team that these
three men were involved in some serious scandals that have so far been buried.
It is also our suspicion that all three of these men deserve arrests and
prosecutions for the crimes they’ve been involved in covering up. And, as
usual, when corruption is covered up for a long time, it fades from attention
so their corruption can remain unknown by the majority, and the few who do know
something have forgotten about some of the unanswered questions and some of
their own suspicions. But we all know that sin and corruption that is not
handled and resolved Biblically doesn’t just disappear… it grows to be a worse
problem later. Dealing with the corruption now can help stop a lot of problems.
“13 He who covers his sins will not prosper, But whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.” (Proverbs 28:13)
“18 "Come now, and let us reason together," Says
the LORD, "Though your sins
are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.” (Isaiah
1:18)
“9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to
forgive us our sins and to
cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” (1 John 1:9)
But, the sad and
concerning part of this current situation at Moody is that although they
removed the 3 top corrupt leaders, these corrupt leaders were replaced by the
same “good ole boy” club that was part of keeping the corruption hidden. Mr.
Greg Thornton, the Vice President of Media at Moody – the one who had Julie
fired, took the position of acting/interim Moody President. Walgreen’s former
president, Mark Wagner, is acting/interim COO. And John Jelinek, who was the
Vice President of MBI and Dean of Moody Theological Seminary is now
acting/interim Provost. And so far (from what we’ve heard and seen), none of
the wrongful firings have been reversed – yet.
>> There
are also the concerns in these two letters that need to be addressed and
corrected. The first letter is written by staff at Moody who wanted to see
corruption, and the tension against accountability lessened and corrected. The
second letter is from alumni – how many are current or graduated was not
explained, but it doesn’t diminish their call for correction to stop the
corruption and restore Moody back to trust and honor. And the third is from
another group of Moody alumni.
> www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-alumni-letter1.pdf
>
www.RestoreMBI.com/MBI-staff-Letter2.pdf
>
www.RestoreMBI.com/Moody-an-Open-Letter-Letter3.pdf
Brethren, this is
where we need your help. This is all of the information we have currently. We
need you. Please talk to Mrs. Julie Roys, the team here at FEDBP/INCPU or
others. We need you to take this accountability to the second level of Matthew
18. Please join us in speaking up, holding corrupt leaders accountable and
praying.
Please discuss
and pray about what you find. We intend to post a set of short analysis on
several leaders that need accountability at Moody soon. We do have one on Mr.
Ed Stetzer – you can find those concerns, quotes and links here:
www.RestoreMBI.com/Problems-at-Moody-EdStetzer.htm
www.RestoreMBI.com/Problems-at-Moody-EdStetzer.pdf
In conclusion, Ed Stetzer is working as an
agent for Billy Graham, the Rockefellers, and the Vatican – one of the leaders
in changing all religions to be one all-inclusive religion, including
“mainstream Christianity”.
“15 Moreover if your brother sins against you, go and tell him his fault
between you and him alone. If he hears you, you have gained your brother.
16 But if he will not hear, take with you one or two more, that 'by the mouth of two or three witnesses
every word may be established.' 17 And if he refuses to hear them, tell it to the church. But if he refuses even to hear the church, let
him be to you like a heathen and a tax collector. 18 Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be
bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in Heaven.
19 Again I say to you that if two of you
agree on earth concerning anything that they ask, it
will be done for them by My Father in Heaven. 20 For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”
(Matthew 18:15-20)
~ Watching,
Preaching, Praying,
a growing servant/life-slave of Jesus,
Steven Henry (SH)
with the INCPU and FEDBP ministry teams
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