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Originally Posted by Dave
I agree with what you are saying but isn't it a given they are sectarian. That is interesting about how the LC considers the necessity of accepting the vision of the ministry that LSM publishes or it is a waste of time trying to bring someone to Christ for salvation. They are more than just sectarian so we could use one of the definitions of a cult as a description: a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person (WL) and thing (LSM literature).
In any case, as I noted earlier, boughtbyJesus indicated her direct experience with the elders in the LC and it appeared unusual and controlling however you want to identify it. She was an outsider providing her first impressions and they weren't good. Hope she is doing well.
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As I have stated earlier, I am a fairly new believer, but my first impression and belief now after being exposed to some of their claims/assertions of this ministry and their churches is that they are a cult. I do not wish to offend anyone or to make inflammatory remarks, but this was/is my feeling. My recollection is that they believe they are special, chosen group of people, through WL, whom they say was chosen by God to be the oracle if this age, to whom He was revealing lost truths and the proper way of the church. I never for one second believed any of those claims and many others they asserted, which would inevitably lead to heated discussions between my husband and I. To my ears, those claims sounded utterly absurd and wrong. As my husband started to listen to more and more messages, downloading more and more material, and acquiring more booklets, literature, revival books and "crystallization" books on the different books of the bible, which were "given" to him by his LC, I became more and more horrified! I don't understand why he can't "see" what is clear to me. I mean, I know why, but I just can't believe it sometimes! And when I've tried to engage him in conversation about it, he literally sounds just like them! The words, the cadence and pitch of his voice. He has no individual voice!