[aron]

One of the big eye-openers for me was to see the Eastern Lightning recruiting guidelines. First, just look like 'plain vanilla' Christians. Get them to open up, let down the guards of caution. Second, establish relations. We are your freinds! Then comes dependency and commitment. Third, convince them that everyone else is wrong, & we alone have the 'recovered truth'. Our leader is God's special anointed vessel. Submit and you will know true happiness.

Step by step, they are led into the group's conceptual overlays, and away from what Paul called "the simplicity of the gospel" (2 Cor 11:3). And the only difference that I could see about the EL was that it was so obvious with them. No pretense or subtleties with that group. But in the child I could see the parent (LSM).