Rereading the Silver Spring article this morning.
http://www.rickross.com/reference/mccotter/mccotter22.htmlJean Liverman, 22, of Rockville says that for several months she was under the control of a locally-based fundamentalist Christian group, the Great Commission International.
The group made decisions for her, she says, telling her who she could date and where she could live. The pressure she felt to conform was so great that she eventually prayed that God would "kill" her personality so she would not go against the grain of the group's authority. From that point onward, she unquestioningly followed the will of the group, which has hundreds of Montgomery County members.
It took a deprogrammer hired by her parents eight straight days, she says, to free her from the influence of the group.
"I remember the oppression, the guilt and the loss of identity. You can't be in (the Great Commission) without being consumed by it. The group is cultic," she said.
Acccording [sic] to Liverman and nine other ex-members contacted by The Sentinel GCI at first seemed nothing more than a fundamentalist Christian group. But once they become heavily involved, GCI began to exert authority in every aspect of their lives, who they could date, who they could marry, where they could live, and how they should discipline their children.
They aren't even trying to hide that that still do this today! Pat Sokoll just said at Faithwalkers that you shouldn't move unless you had the permission of your pastor. Kurt Jurgensmeiier just taught that if you don't spank you children you hate them. Swerver is taught instead of dating and you should be getting permission to court someone or to marry. It is unbelievable to me that they are still doing this and aren't ashamed of it at all.
