Cult On Campus

Heads up–there’s a cult active at Stan­ford. One of Andrew’s friends was approached this week by a group called “Stu­dents For the Truth at Stan­ford.”

They are a part of the “Local Church” found­ed by Wit­ness Lee. The ver­sion of the Bible they hand out is called “The Recov­ery Ver­sion.”

This is not sim­ply anoth­er Chris­t­ian group like Cor­ner­stone or Inter­Var­si­ty. Those are won­der­ful groups that are good to be involved in (obvi­ous­ly, we’d pre­fer you plug into Chi Alpha, but that’s just ’cause we want to know you).

This group is fun­da­men­tal­ly dif­fer­ent. The Local Church is known for demand­ing absolute and unhealthy obe­di­ence from its fol­low­ers. Here’s my coun­sel to you: groups like this mess up your life. If some­one approach­es you, give them absolute­ly no infor­ma­tion about your­self or where you live. Be polite but firm.

Here are some links you can inves­ti­gate:

Crit­i­cal Per­spec­tives
Apolo­get­ics Index
Liv­ing Truth Min­istries
Chris­t­ian Research Insti­tute

Their Per­spec­tive
Stu­dents For The Truth At Stan­ford (does not seem to be active­ly main­tained)
Liv­ing Stream Min­istries
Bibles For Amer­i­ca

6 thoughts on “Cult On Campus”

  1. Iam sor­ry to say but you are wrong in your com­ments about the Local Church!

  5. Anony­mous from Novem­ber 11, 2004:

    I promise, I tried to help you by call­ing KTVB to get more infor­ma­tion on your daugh­ter so I could go in and get her to call you. KTVB would not call me back. I have a feel­ing a “gag” order was in effect. I am so sor­ry this hap­pened to you and your daugh­ter. I’m hop­ing that by this time, either your daugh­ter has wok­en up and real­i­ty has set in, or you have some­how been able to reach her.

    Sin­cere­ly,

    ex-mem­ber

  6. I have a broth­er who no longer has a rela­tion­ship with us because of this cult. Get as far away from this false Chris­tian­i­ty as you can…

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