“Local Church ‘Cult’ Label has stuck”—says LSM Star turned Academic

[aron]

Originally Posted by Freedom

Thanks for finding this. It seems pretty clear that Lee had no intention of hiding the 'shouters' linkage.

I have no idea when the meeting that I remember took place, but it was probably before LSM needed to acknowledge no connection, either formal or informal, with the Shouters. (And Lee was an accountant, after all, always interested in numbers [except when he'd say that he didn't care if anyone took the way of recovery]).

What I remember about the meeting was two things: first was the glaring disparity in the numbers. It was like: "USA & Canada, 40,000; South America, 20,000; Africa, 12,000; Europe, 8,000; Russia, 15,000; Asia, 60,000; China, 50 million". The number from China was an order of magnitude exponentially higher than the others. And Lee was obviously pleased to shock us with such a high number. The second thing was the noise from the crowd when they heard the number. There was this big, collective, "Ooooohhhh!" Like everybody audibly gasped all at once.