In their own words.

“You cannot deny the fact that the Lord’s oracle has been with me. I claim this at the face of Jesus Christ.”

“I’m claiming this for Lee!”

“If you listen to me, you do not listen to Lee, you listen to the very God in His oracle spoken by me.”

“She could not tolerate anymore the gross misconduct that was being perpetrated upon some and especially upon her.”

“It is contended that “gross immorality” and other sins were committed by Phillip Lee over a ten-year period, with Witness Lee’s knowledge, and that Lee and his co-workers tolerated and covered up this behavior.”

“Philip was observed fondling a sister in the office of Living Stream.”

“Philip, of course, is not perfect; nobody is perfect!”

“He was known to have had a prostitute stay with him.”

“Later the son mentioned to some saints that 2.5 million U. S. dollars disappeared from his hands.”

“Many saints were pressured to give their life savings to this business.”

“Mr. X then asked one of his co-workers … to persuade the saints, who invested their money to consider the investment as a donation and not seek to be reimbursed.”

“Most were intimidated into taking a big bath.”

“Ones who were quite angry and wanted their money back, typically, got paid.”

“They have lost their virginity.”

“Why, the “little precious man” sitting right in front of us, IS THE MAN who seduced us all!!”

“About Daystar, that is not your business. No, I don’t answer you.”

“I’m not responsible to anyone. I’m only responsible to the government.”

“Philip Lee and the grandsons of Lee had fat Swiss bank accounts.”

“Around 1959, Lee’s private mishandling of finances caused the first financial crisis. The work funds the saints had offered were lost, and a large debt remained. Coworkers were forced to sell a roughly seven-thousand-ping plot on Nanking East Road that had been purchased for a meeting hall and training center.”

“The work funds were entrusted to him by the Lord, he said, and he had the right to dispose of them as he pleased. Even if he threw them into the Pacific Ocean, no one had the right to question him.”

“This is exactly the situation of Amos 8:5: using a small measure when giving out and a large one when taking in, and cheating with dishonest scales.”

“Because the motor home market stopped, so it turned to the factory … manufacturing tennis racquets.”

“The funds collected by Living Stream for Linkou were neither forwarded to the church in Taipei nor returned to the contributing churches.”

“Toward the roughly NT$30 million Linkou purchase, Taiwan Gospel Book Room contributed NT$3 million, then at registration demanded a one-tenth ownership stake in the property.”

“We have bought more than twenty-four acres of land in Linkou, and we hope to be able to build a large meeting hall, but our application for the building permit was not approved.”

“Have you heard about Lee’s other financial swindles? Anyone remember the tennis racket factory? I think it was called “Delta.” … We had to cart around dozens of boxes of unsellable tennis rackets every time we moved.”

“In resurrection Christ as the last Adam became the life-giving Spirit and entered into His believers as the Holy Spirit.”

“We may say that the Son is the Father (Isa. 9:6), and that the Spirit is the Son (2 Cor. 3:17).”

“It is heretical to teach that there are two life-giving Spirits, two Spirits who give life.”

“Before Christ’s resurrection, such a Spirit was not yet. Christ’s resurrection produced the life-giving Spirit.”

“The Father, the Son, and the Spirit are not three separate persons or three Gods; they are one God, one reality, one person.”

“We agree that this leading is indispensable to our oneness.”

“We preach that Witness Lee is a one-man show.”

“The Father is first, the Son second, the Holy Spirit third, Witness Lee fourth, followed by those around Witness Lee.”

“The Triune God is three, yet He now has a fourth part, a counterpart.”

“Each mention of the city-church in scripture is a description, an example, and does not involve commands.”

“Regardless of how they deny it, every no-name group eventually is named, and perhaps even more strongly than those around it.”

“We should not preach the shallow gospel that Christianity preaches. That gospel tells people that they have sinned and must suffer the punishment of hell, but that God has had pity on them and has given His beloved Son to die for them to redeem them and to resurrect for them, and that as long as they repent and believe in Him, they will receive eternal life and will go to heaven... Although this is the gospel, it is a low gospel. The high gospel that we preach says that the Word who was God from the beginning became flesh, passed through human living, was crucified, resurrected, and has become the life-giving Spirit to accomplish the great work of the divine dispensing.”

“Animal men, again, are instructed in animal things; such men, namely, as are established by their works, and by a mere faith, while they have not perfect knowledge. We of the Church, they say, are these persons.”

“Today many Christians can be compared to cows listening to music: they have no appreciation or discernment of what they hear.”

“This shows us that Psalm 1 is good, but it was written with a wrong concept… Thus, we should not highly appraise Psalm 1. It was written wrongly with a wrong concept, a human concept.”

“In verses 1-6, he was ‘Abel’; in verses 7-11, he was ‘Cain.’ We have to give David the credit in the line of life and the debit in the line of the knowledge of good and evil.”

“The book of Job, preceding the Psalms, is a record of human views based on human concepts concerning the relationship between God and man… In this book there is no prayer or praise offered to God. Furthermore, there is no hint that Job, his three friends, and Elihu had any kind of thirst for God.”

“When, however, they are confuted from the Scriptures, they turn round and accuse these same Scriptures, as if they were not correct, nor of authority, and [assert] that they are ambiguous, and that the truth cannot be extracted from them by those who are ignorant of tradition.”

“If we help them to say “O Lord” three times, they will be saved.”