An interview with Neil Duddy in UPDATE magazine.
by Johannes Aagaard and Thomas O’Connor
In 1979, Swiss publisher Schwengeler-Verlag published a short book on a movement of six hundred churches known as The Local Church. It’s title “Die Sonderlehre des Witness Lee” translates in English as The Peculiar Teachings af Witness Lee. About 4,000 copies were sold to German-speaking Europeans.
This book was contested in Swiss court by the Stuttgart, West Germany, Local Church, but the suit and subsequent appeal were dismissed. In 1981 the Local Church took the suit to Oakland, California. Schwengeler, and the two co-authors Neil Duddy and the Spiritual Counterfeits Project (SCP) were the defendants.
We present this interview and article about the teachings of the Local Church and its leader Witness Lee as a service to our readers who are interested in the many variations of new religious movements found in the world today. Some, as in the case of the Local Church, have their roots in the Christian faith and can be misidentified as orthodox denominations unless close scrutiny is made of the teachings and organizational methods.
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- Good Christian Boy
- This website is not a blog. I am committed to Christ and active in a Bible-believing church. I dedicated my life to Christ, thanks to a school teacher, as a young boy. Sadly, as a youth one parent went astray and took the family to the Liite cult, known to most as the Local Church of Witness Lee. I never missed a training and read every book published under Witness Lee's name. I learned every dogma; but really it is quite simplistic: it comes down to the dharma wheel, which Liites call "mingling." That is, God came to terminate man's soul, replace man's evil nature with his own, and then absorb it back into himself. It's Buddhism with a twist. The twist is: send money to the LSM.
