[UntoHim]

To call this article a fluff piece would be an insult to the person who coined the term "fluff piece". Admittedly the author only "attended a few services at the Monterey Park congregation in 2019". It is painfully obvious that this poor fellow got his information from one or both of two sources - longtime Local Church members who greatly shade the historical truth (because it's the only thing they know how to do) and/or decidedly ill-informed third parties.

The author's opening claim that the Local Church in America "isn't slowing down" would be news to Blended Brother Minoru Chen, who has publicly admitted that the LC movement in the US has been at a statistical standstill for the better part of 40 years. Anyone who has even a casual knowledge of the LC/LSM here in America knows that any growth has come from the importation of Asian-born members from Taiwan and other Asian Local Church strongholds.

One excerpt from the article says "In 1962, Lee felt called to the US to expand the ministry. He had visited the country previously, and felt that he could entrust his work in East Asia to the people he had trained." Of course the truth is that Witness Lee stole money from and betrayed the people he had trained, and then they basically expelled him from the island of Taiwan, leaving Lee no choice but to flee that part of Asia and set up shop among a bunch of gullible Americans, who eventually enabled Witness to do the exact same thing here in the US.
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