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Originally Posted by aron

Does the Baptist church have the same rigid, hyper-centralised command-and-control structures as the LDS and the LSM? I do see similarities: all these groups have mandates to go forth & tell the great unwashed masses about the Bible and Jesus Christ. But in the case of the LDS and LSM, the Bible and Jesus, aka "the gospel message", are merely foils, introductory to the special revelation of God's special anointed prophet raised up in these last days, and the cloistered group that follows the teachings of said prophet without question.

To your point here -- many brothers over time became suspicious that the so-called "New Way" and the FTT in Taipei of the 1980's were more about Lee and LSM taking control of all the LC's than it was about the preaching of the Gospel.