Between April 16th and 18th, trainings in each
place started early or late. The contents were very much the
same in each place except Shanghai. The first lesson was the
introduction to the Singapore Haggai Leadership Institute.
Its HQ was said to be in Singapore, and it was said to have
six branch-institutes. The purpose and guidelines of the Institute,
its training approaches and contents, qualifications of the
applicants, as well as the scope of their recruiting, etc.
were also covered. When they started to talk about Mainland
China, the teachers said, “Students we have trained
are from all over the world. But the number we trained for
Mainland China is relatively fewer, only 22 so far. The Institute
expects to train more leaders for the Mainland in the future.”
Later they added, “Most of our work in the Mainland
has been done in cooperation with TSPM and CCC, but it’s
an exception this time. Here we are working with the often-persecuted
house church to help you train leaders. We desire to select
from among you the best ones and send them to the Singapore
Haggai Institute for further training later, then they can
carry on the world mission.” In the following days,
the subjects of their teaching were: “New service”,
“New breakthrough”, “New ministry”,
“New visions”, “Understand the present spirituality
of the church”, “Renewal”, “Abundance
of life”, “The unity of the church”, etc.
In some places, they taught from “Genesis” to
“Revelation”. They purposely taught those subjects
to prepare the way for what they would teach later.
While listening to the lectures, many coworkers
recognized that what they taught was too extreme. For an example,
they emphasized the abundance of life, but were strongly against
having theological knowledge. They stressed the unity of the
church while at the same time attacking many churches with
no restraint. They talked a lot about the corruption and weakness
of churches, and attacked many church leaders. To many coworkers,
the terms these teachers often used simply gave away who they
were. Terms they constantly used were such as “God works”,
“always new and never old”, “old ideas”,
“normal human nature”, “old religion”,
“eat and drink of God’s Word”, “God’s
management”, “the six-thousand-year plan”,
“not conformed to man’s idea”, “a
batch of conquerors”, “Satan’s nature”,
“work across the whole universe”, “God’s
speaking”, “man’s speaking”, “seven
times stronger spirit”, “extremely true”,
“transparent and shining”, “measure of maturity”,
“God doesn’t do repetitive work”, etc. Most
of those were terms frequently used by the Shouters who followed
Witness Lee. Anyone who had dealt with the EL people would
be able to tell that what they were teaching was EL doctrine.
