[TLFisher]

Originally Posted by Igzy

So what's the story with this gal? Is she still a LCMer?

“The author was a member of Local Church congregations in Taiwan and the United States from 1978-2008 and a translator for Witness Lee in his publishing companies in Taiwan and California from 1983-2001. The author was also the eldest daughter-in-law in a multigenerational Hakka Chinese household in Taiwan and the United States from 1986-2010.”

"The authors report that LSM’s leaders regard the Local Church’s cult label as irreversible. They say26 “Living Stream Ministry (LSM) leaders state that earlier publications that disparage the Local Churches as a dangerous cult have influenced public opinion in a way that has been impossible to revise, even with successful lawsuits and public statements by former detractors recanting their prior criticisms of the group.” Appealing to an Asian-style metaphor, “LSM leaders liken the effect of these earlier criticisms as ‘opening a feather pillow in the wind;’ even if one succeeds in mending the tear in the pillow, the feathers can never be retrieved and stuffed back in. These leaders assert that they must go ‘person by person, campus by campus’ to clear their group’s name. And, they claim that whenever they are successful in attracting college students as followers, campus Inter-varsity representatives seek out those students and inform them that the Local Churches are a cult.”27 (Interview with LSM leaders, Anaheim, CA, Oct. 16, 2013) This is a candid admission of impotence by LSM’s leaders, divulged to a (former) ‘insider.’ Such statements are rarely heard from the LSM-conference podium."

Obviously, if Teresa did stop meeting in 2008 and was able to interview LSM leaders in 2013 indicates at the very least a perception having left on good terms.