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As a member, were you under the impression (after 1994) that your full-time leaders were making significant financial sacrifices to serve the church full-time?
As a member, did you have the impression (after 1994) that your Lead Evangelist's salary would be higher than that of the average member of the church?
As a member, were you ever told (before 2003) the actual salary/compensation level of your lead evangelist or administrator?
As a member, were you ever told (before 2003) the actual salary/compensation level of anyone else on staff?
As a member, were you ever informed as the source(s) of your World Sector Leader's salary/compensation?
As a member, would it have surprised you to find out that your World Sector Leader was being paid both by his local congregation and the World Sector?
As a member, were you ever informed as to the source(s) and amounts of Kip McKean's compensation?
As a member, were you ever told that your evangelists/administrators needed to live in upscale neighborhoods in order to "reach out to the sharp"?
Do you believe that your leaders who lived in affluent neighborhoods showed a good return on the church's investment in their housing allowance by recruiting more "sharp" people than the other members of the church were recruiting?
As a member, were you ever made aware of the exact job description for "evangelist" or "lead evangelist"?
As a member, were you ever made aware of how your evangelist or lead evangelist spent his hours through the week and whether he was devoting at least 40 hours each week to ministry work?
Was your evangelist/administrator ever rumored to have "wealthy relatives"?
As a member, were you aware that the ICOC Salary Model included a provision for "bonuses" to be paid to church employees and ministry staff?
As a member, were you ever informed when (if) anyone on your church's staff was given a bonus?
As a member, were you ever told that the "Salary Model" for ICOC was "needs-based", and that the "needs" were not determined by role or position, but by family size, age of children and housing costs (based on location)?
Were you ever told that "God appoints the leaders" in the ICOC?
As a member, did you feel entitled to raise objections to the established leaders based upon their behavior or performance?
As a member, were you ever aware of your church paying the downpayment for the house of an employee or minister?
As a member, were you ever informed as to what (if any) expense reimbursement caps were in place for the employees of the church? (Meals, books, travel, registration fees, etc.)
As a member, would it have surprised you to know that certain Women's Ministry Leaders and/or female administrators were considered "ordained ministers" in official ICOC policy?
As a member, would it have surprised you to know that the "World Sector Leaders' wives" were officially titled as "World Sector Leaders" themselves?
As a member, would you have been surprised to find out that any of the World Sector Leaders were living in houses that cost between $500,000 and $1 Million?
As a member, were you ever informed that visiting ICOC preachers were paid honoraria for speaking at your local church?
As a member, were you even informed as to the actual schedule of events at "conferences" that your leaders may have attended at the church's expense?
As a member, were you ever informed as to whether the travel may have been paid for your evangelist (and his wife) if he were traveling to speak in another ICOC church, even if it was a five-minute communion message given during his week-long vacation in a resort city?
As a member, were you ever led to believe that ICOC leaders were relying completely on God for their financial support, and that they even considered it unspiritual to have retirement accounts?
As a member, were you ever informed of the levels of severance pay being given to ministers and employees who were leaving their positions?
Were you ever asked to give to an informal collection to buy gifts for your church leaders?
Were you ever informed that informal collections had to be made for leaders' gifts since it was illegal for those gifts to be bought out of the church's treasury?
As a member, would you have been surprised to find out that the church's official policy allowed for "gifts" to be given to ministry staff out of the church treasury?
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As a member, did you ever hear of International Churches of Christ Mission Society, Inc.?
As a member of your local congregation, were you under the impression that you were also a member of the "International Churches of Christ"?
As a member, were you ever informed that your World Sector Corporation was a private organization of which you were NOT considered a member, and whose books you were not allowed to see?
As a member, were you aware whether your evangelist was also the leader of your local church's Board of Directors?
As a member, did you see any conflict of interest represented in the fact that your lead evangelist was also the leader of your local church's Board of Directors?
As a member, did you ever see it as a conflict of interest that a paid member of staff would be also on the board of directors, which was charged with overseeing the compensation levels of the staff?
As a member, were you under the impression that your local church was under the leadership of either Boston or Los Angeles (depending on the period) or of your World Sector?
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As a member, were you ever told that the church does not make "investments" other than the interest it earns short term in its normal bank accounts?
As a member, were you ever told that the church does not make loans to any individual for any purpose?
Are you aware of any instances of your church ever making loans to any individuals?
As a member, were you ever informed whether/if your church was making loans to other ICOC churches and/or related entities?
As a member, would you have been surprised to find out that your church was making or receiving loans to other ICOC churches and/or related entities?
As a member, did you ever receive a loan from the church?
As a member, were you ever assured that you had nothing to worry about when it came to the integrity of ICOC finances?
As a member, did you ever find any church event or expense to be objectionably extravagant?
As a member, were you ever informed that a portion (normally 4% or so) of your weekly contribution dollars were going to ICOC, Inc.?
As a member, were you under the impression that the church's leaders were "taking pains" to do what was right in the eyes of everyone, when it came to the finances?
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As a member, were you ever informed that a portion (normally 4% or so) of your weekly contribution dollars were going to HOPE Worldwide?
When you conducted various fundraisers as a "volunteer" for HOPE, would it have surprised you to find out that the funds you raised (or gave yourself) were going to pay for HOPE's administrative overhead, and not actually to "help the poor"?
As a HOPE "volunteer", were you ever forbidden to invite anyone to church while at a HOPE function?
As a HOPE "volunteer", were you ever told that HOPE and the ICOC were "separate"?
As a HOPE "volunteer", would it have surprised you to know that Kip McKean considered Bob and Pat Gempel to be the "World Sector Leaders over HOPE"?
As a member, did you ever know of any HOPE adoption going to a non-ICOC member?
As a member, did you ever have the impression that more HOPE adoptions went to ICOC leaders than to non-leader members?
As a member, did you ever have the impression that more HOPE Youth Corp invitations went to the children of ICOC leaders than to the children of non-leader members?
As a member, did you ever know of a HOPE Youth Corp invitation being extended to anyone who was not an ICOC member?
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As a member, did you ever notice what you considered to be a "double standard" when it came to leaders not being held as accountable for their sins as were the non-leader members?
As a member, did you ever ask the leaders anything about the finances of the church?
As a member, did you or would you have generally agreed with this statement about your personal giving: "I give my money to God, so whatever gets done with it after I give is between the leaders and God."?
As a member, were you ever aware of serious sins of the leaders being covered up?
As a member, did you ever see the actual financial records of the church (other than the annual reports given to the entire congregation)?
As a member, did you take the annual business meeting of the church to be anything more than a mere "formality" for legal purposes?
As a member (before 2003) were you ever allowed to nominate members of your church's board of directors?
As a member (before 2003) were you ever allowed to vote on the members of the church's board of directors?
Would you ever have felt free to publicly disagree with any nomination for your church's board of directors?
As a member, were you generally under the impression that "the books are open to the members at all times?"
As a member, were you ever aware of any other member who raised objections about the church’s financial practices (before 2003)?
As a member, were you ever aware of anyone losing their “good standing” membership status after raising objections about the church’s financial practices?
As a member, were you ever told that it was God's responsibility to deal with leaders who were in sin, and not yours?
As a member, did you ascribe, or would you generally have subscribed, to the belief that, even if you did see the financial records of the church, it would all be "over your head" anyway?
As a member, would you have expected that if some financial sin had been uncovered in the church, the leaders would have exhibited the same kind of "radical repentance" that was generally taught to all?
As a member, would you have expected that the leaders would need to be "brutally honest" if questioned about any appearance of financial mismanagement or impropriety?
As a member, would it have surprised you to know that many ministers and employees leaving the employment of the church were made to sign Non-Disclosure Agreements, vowing not to discuss the terms of their severance packages, or any other "business of the church"?
As a member, would it have surprised you to know that the church policy mandated as a condition of membership that members cannot sue the church, but must pursue approved methods of alternative dispute resolution instead? (That is, that the church could automatically disfellowship a member for suing them, regardless of the reason for the lawsuit.)
As a member, if you had been rebuked for personal financial mismanagement or crime, do you believe it would have been found acceptable had you replied in defense of your slowness to change, "Change takes time."?
As a member, were you ever aware of low level leaders (such as Bible Talk Leaders) being taken out of leadership for such things as "impurity", "lack of fruitfulness", or not being "inspiring"?
Do you personally consider that misappropriation of funds, financial mismanagement, and conspiracy to defraud are more serious sins than "impurity" or "lack of fruitfulness"?
Are you aware of any ICOC leaders who are guilty of mismanagement, misrepresentation, conspiracy, etc. who have been put out of leadership because of such?
Are you aware of any ICOC leaders who are guilty of mismanagement, misrepresentation, conspiracy, etc. who have not been put out of leadership because of such?
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As a member, would you have been surprised to find out that your local church told the IRS that it was NOT "controlled by" any other organization?
As a member, would you have been surprised to find out that your local church told the IRS that it was not "financially accountable" to any other organization?
The "Evangelization Proclamation" of 1994 called for a church in every country with a city of 100,000 or more "by the year 2000". Did you take this to mean that the goal was to be reached before the year 2000 arrived?
As a member, would you have been surprised if you found out that statistics for foreign church plantings had ever been inflated or even fabricated in some instances?
As a church member and/or HOPE "volunteer", would you have been surprised to find out that an urgent cash collection for disaster relief was used for other purposes and supplanted by a bulk of donated goods instead?
As a member, were you ever told that it was "illegal" for the church to reveal the salaries of its employees and ministers?
As a member, were you ever told that seeing the church finances could "cause people to struggle" (or anything similar)?
As a member, were you informed that the boasts about how reasonable the ministry staff salaries were only referred to the "average" salary (low-paid Interns included), and not to the "Lead Evangelist" level of salary?
Do you think that it would be difficult for a church that wanted to be open with its finances to post their books on their own website?
As a member, if you had known that the leaders were conspiring to misrepresent the truth about where your contribution dollars were going and that they were personally benefiting from your donations, would you have continued to give?
Do you think that a church should be morally responsible for paying back monies that it took under false pretenses?
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As a member, were you under the impression that your "Special Missions Contribution" donations were going to support the missions work of the church?
As a member, would you have been surprised to find out that any of your "Special Missions Contribution" dollars were going to HOPE Worldwide?
As a member, were you generally under the impression that your Special Missions Contribution monies were going to fund missions work in Second- and Third-World countries?
As a member, were you ever informed that Second- and Third-World ICOC churches were expected to have a Special Missions Contribution of their own?
As a member, were you ever informed as to why it was considered necessary for Second- and Third-World churches to collect a Special Missions Contribution of their own, beyond the mere suggestion that they, too, needed to be sacrificial in their giving?
As a member, were you ever informed as to where the SMC funds collected by Second- and Third-World churches were sent?
As a member, were you ever told that Second- and Third-World church members were generally not encouraged to visit the US members because they would "struggle" with our "materialism"?
As a member, were you ever made aware of the exact purposes to which your church's Special Missions Contribution monies had been applied?
As a member, were you ever made aware in advance of the specific needs for which your Special Missions Contribution monies were being solicited?
As a member, were you ever informed by your local church leadership that your annual Special Missions Contribution "multiple" actually represented the "multiple" requested by the World Sector and a multiple added on by the local church?
As a member, were you ever informed that "anything collected over our goal will be kept here for local use"?
As a member, were you ever informed that the Special Missions Contribution "goal" given to the local congregation by its leaders already included a portion that was earmarked for local use?