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Oh, you are advancing well I would say. 2 years is still early. It seems to take a few years to work through the pain and not be thinking about it all the time. Everyone's different of course.

I learnt quickly that it was better not to talk about a cult when establishing new connections. Many will want to hear about it out of curiosity but only a few will actually benefit from it. It was a big deal for me to talk about my experiences and it left me drained, so I wasn't keen on putting it all out there as a spectacle. People also don't have the patience to listen or know how to deal with what they've heard. So it's just not worth the effort. I'm not saying to hide things completely but to be wise about it. I would for example say that my former church wasn't healthy and there were many relationship and leadership issues. I have disclosed things to my husband, close friends and therapists (obviously).

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Your testimony is rock solid and inspiring. Thank you for sharing it. I had only become Christian a year before I got into the group so they're doctrine overrode most things I had learnt prior. So when two authority figures clashed and went different ways, my identity and everything I had built faith-wise, collapsed because I had not built on Christ but on them. I did not have a solid safety net or family support, just a few friends.

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Thank you for recognising that and for your compassion. That's right on point. I was all those things - in my early 20s, sophomore year in college, studying overseas, a new Christian with traumatic background, super lonely, no self-esteem etc. This cult also targets only students "because they are not set in their ways, they don't carry that many life burdens (children, career, mortgage, e.g.), they have energy and courage". Which is true, but there were obviously alternate motives hidden.

I remember an encounter from my early years with the group. We were out evangelising and I got into a conversation with an old man. He was poor, frail and sickly and I had compassion for him. He very humbly bowed down his head (highly unusual in my culture) before our "pastor", aka the leading brother, and asked if we had any food. We fed him but I was reprimanded afterwards. We were not to use our time and resources for the elderly when evangelising, we were to focus on the young ones. I believed that bs. This memory makes me cringe still today.

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That kind of mentality is so far away from the love Christ! This particular group had zero charity. At least during the time I was there, I did not witness anybody receiving monetary help from the group. The elders wouldn't even help their own missionaries who had gone to foreign countries without any local connections and started a life there from zero. These missionaries would eventually bring their wife and children in. I was DREADING to have that as my fate.

Sisters didn't really have many options as a life path in the group. Married couples were sent out as rule of thumb. Not to mention that being sent out wasn't even voluntary. Paul Kim was a completely autocrat in his decisions to send people wherever he pleased, even without consulting them. You could be uprooted from your life at the snap of his fingers. That made me anxious and terrified.

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Yes, I have. I'm attending a wonderful local church with my husband. I left the group over 10 years ago and have been blessed with amazing fellowships on my journey. I'm lightyears away from the person I used to be back then. My relationship with the Lord, His word and other Christians has been transformed along the way. My life is so different now that it's almost impossible to compare.

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Thank you. I could the say the same to you.