To whom it may concern: 
 
My name is Daniel Eng.  I was baptized in 1976 in Malaysia and was a 
member of the church of Christ (mainline) in Klang, Malaysia.  In 1982 
I began serving as a full-time minister with that congregation until 
November 1984 when I joined the then Central London Church of Christ 
(Boston Movement).  I was invited by their leadership to train as an 
intern and was subsequently discipled by James Lloyd, one of their two 
evangelists in London, England. 

In October 1987 I was sent off to Singapore to plant their new mission 
work and the Singapore Central Christian Church officially began in 
February 1988.  I was appointed an evangelist in the Boston Garden in 
September 1989 at the last Boston World Missions Seminar.  When this 
Singapore church grew to about 400 members, I was sent off again to 
start another new planting.  I started the Central Jakarta Church of 
Christ in Indonesia in February 1990 and stayed their till March 1991.  
After Jakarta, I was asked to move to Bombay, India to help the 
church there.  I moved there in April 1991.  Two months later I met 
with the Boston Movement leadership in London, England to discuss my 
concerns about certain authoritarian abuses.  In June 1991 I made my 
decision to leave them. 

When I left the Boston Movement I was marked and ostracized.  The 
experience left me very unhappy, very depressed, suicidal, disillusioned 
and very confused.  At that point I began an intensive research on the 
Boston Movement and came across Dr Jerry Jones' books "What Does the 
Boston Movement Teach, Vols I and II".  Reading those two books confirmed 
my doubts about the Boston Movement.  As one of its former evangelists, 
I can testify that the questionable beliefs and practices were definitely 
present and adhered to.  There has been talk of the Movement changing, 
but the sermons and attitudes of the top leadership remain the same.  
This is confirmed innumerable times as I continue to meet ex-members 
everywhere with testimonies of authoritarian abuses, etc., even til 
today. 

Below are the main reasons why I left the Boston Movement: 
 
1. One-over-one discipling which they believe and practice, giving 
   the "discipler" the authority to manipulate and control every 
   aspect of the lives of the members including marriage, dating, 
   sex, finances, school, career, future, friends, family, etc. 
2. Unquestioned obedience and loyalty to human leaders in the 
   Boston Movement where there is no room for disagreements, criticisms 
   nor different opinions of any sort.  To disagree or to differ with 
   the leader or discipler is considered "prideful, arrogant, 
   insubmissive, stubborn, independent, rebellious, disloyal and 
   having a bad heart." 
3. Concept of "disciple" (Matthew 28:19) which has resulted in numerous 
   `rebaptisms' and created many man-made prerequisites for those 
   who want to be baptized. 
4. Congregational autonomy which has been rejected and replaced with 
   a hierarchical authoritarian structure led by Kip McKean and the 
   World Sector Leaders. 
5. Monopoly of salvation, ie. that only the Boston Movement churches 
   and their members are "true disciples/Christians". 
6. Legalistic understanding of the Christian life which is opposed to 
   a correct understanding of gospel and grace. 
7. Mind-control methods being practiced to manipulate and control every 
   member in their churches. 
8. Widespread abuses and destruction of the lives of Christians both in 
   the Movement and those who have left, resulting from the mind-control 
   techniques used.  (These methods are the same used by destructive 
   cults like the Moonies, Children of God, etc.)  There is something 
   very wrong with a movement or church when its members walk out by 
   the hundreds and thousands with total disillusionment in God, 
   Christianity and the Bible, with their faith in God destroyed, and 
   with similar stories of widespread authoritarian abuses and 
   manipulation.  The sight of seeing and meeting with these 
   devastated Christians trying to return to reality and to put their 
   lives together again should cause all of us to have very serious 
   doubts of this Movement. 
 
I regret my role in propogating some of these abuses while I was in the 
Boston Movement.  It is my prayer and hope that the leaders will open 
their eyes to see the thousands that they have directly and indirectly 
abused and manipulated.  These thousands leave voluntarily and 
involutarily but always with feelings of disillusionment and depression, 
and their faith in God adversely affected.  May God help them to 
recover from the pain of their ordeal in the Movement. 
 
Daniel Eng