Stephen Kaung on Abusive Churches

[Freedom]

Well, first of all, I think, from what you have said about The Church of Bible Understanding that you come out from; I think probably there are a few things. One of course is, it may have begun as something from the Lord, but gradually you find that it has changed its course and basically the reason, as you’ll find in all these cultish or semi-cultish groups, you’ll find that oftentimes it began well, but then some person began to dominate the whole thing. In other words, instead of holding fast Christ as the head, a man became the head and when that thing happens, invariably the thing began to move, to go astray. I mean, that is the history you can find in every, what we call cult or semi-cult, these things. Of course some may have begun wrong from the very beginning, but many of them began well. It is of the Lord and it seems to be used of the Lord, but then somebody took the place of Christ and then when that happened, you know it always went astray.l

Those are some very wise words. Actually, it sums up what when wrong with the LCM very well, someone began to dominate.

Many would say that the LC started off well. Of course, some would disagree on that, but either way, the LC had the potential to be something positive, and at worst could have just been something benign. Unfortunately Lee and his ministry were allowed to dominate. The effects of that are far-reaching.