Saturday July 27 1996<\/p>\n
CLARENCE TSUI<\/p>\n
A minister from the church in which cult leader the Reverend Leung Yat-wah began his religious life has slammed the Church of Zion as heretical.<\/p>\n
The Hong Kong True Church minister, Mrs Chan, said: ‘We believe that interpretations which were out of line with the Bible were heretical.<\/p>\n
‘[The Church of Zion] was a heresy and Mr Leung should know better that preaching heresy would bring severe circumstances,’ she said.<\/p>\n
‘We ejected him from our church [in 1987] because he had gone astray.<\/p>\n
‘We reproached him because it is not right to pull believers from other churches to his own.’ One of the creeds Mr Leung preaches at the Church of Zion was that a quick increase in the number of believers was the sign of a strong church, while smaller churches were considered to be weak, ‘split by God’ or ‘bundled up by Satan’.<\/p>\n
‘Other churches have rung us up, asking about Mr Leung’s actions – but we were not to blame for what he did,’ Mrs Chan said.<\/p>\n
‘We are an orthodox church, but every big tree must have a broken branch.’ Mr Leung was also involved in the Revival Christian Church.<\/p>\n
The leaders of the church could not be contacted yesterday, but a worker said Mr Leung had only appeared at some Sunday sharing activities 10 years ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"