[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I am pretty sure the numbers in Europe are inflated. A group of LCer's came visiting our church (we didn't know who\what they were at the time) and as I was reading on the internet about Witness Lee, I ran across an update on Europe where they were claiming all the members of our church for the "recovery". We didn't even realize we were being counted as a part of the Lord's Recovery Just from that experience, I am pretty sure that they are not honest with their updates and numbers. They came to us as wolves in sheep's clothing and I trust nothing that comes out of that organization.

It wouldn't be the first time numbers or statistics would be inflated or manipulated. The following is from John So's 1990 Testimony in Manila on page 6

I wasn’t opposing or anything fermenting within me. I’m sorry to say, dear saints, I think there is a plot, a conspiracy, there, not on our part, but on somebody else’s part to bring the churches in Europe and myself under a certain leading—under the, sorry to say, the hidden function of the office. That I must confess I do not, I just cannot fully agree. But that doesn’t mean that if I don’t agree, I oppose. I went to Taipei. I went to Taipei. I joined the door knocking. Okay, I enjoyed it. You might not believe me, but I really enjoyed it. In fact, I fully submitted to the group. You can ask my group leaders, I baptized a few people, really. And I am quite fond of that whole group. But when I was there, listen, one major leading brother in Taipei every time he saw me, he told me that the statistics were manipulated. That’s the word I think he used. I said, “Are you sure brother?” He said, “Yes.”

I believe one of Nigel's writings addressed the issue of statistics also.