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100%—Members are to imitate their discipler
and other leaders.
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95%—Members are told that people who are not
members are “worldly,” “enemies of God,” and influenced by Satan.
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95%—You must confess your sins to your
discipler.
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93%—You must trust the group and its leaders
over your own thoughts and opinions.
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90%—Leaving the group equals leaving God.
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90%—You must seek advice from your discipler
on all decisions.
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88%—To question, criticize, distrust or
disobey group leaders is to do the same to God.
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88%—You must subordinate your will, behavior,
needs and desires to the leadership in order to please God.
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85%—Members are told that they should sell
personal items in order to give money to special contributions.
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73%—To go home to be with family or to spend
time with non-member friends can cause Satan to get a foothold.
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73%—Members are strongly encouraged to move
out of their present living situation and in with group members.
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70%—Your own inner thoughts and opinions are
influenced by Satan.
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70%—New recruits are not informed before
baptism of the rules against dating non-members.
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70%—New recruits are not told that they are
discussed openly in leaders’ meetings and that several are assigned to be
their “friends” in order to encourage the recruit to become a member.
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70%—New recruits are not informed that the
goal of the individual Bible study is to get you baptized.
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68%—New recruits are not informed that they
must have a discipler after baptism.
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65%—College members experienced falling
grades.
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33%—The group often goes under a name other
that the International Churches of Christ on campus.
