Original sentence: Destiny Church follows a fundamentalist and Pentecostal interpretation of Biblical principles.Its membership is drawn mainly from lower socio-economic sections of New Zealand society and is multicultural, although predominantly Maori and Polynesian.The church's leadership encourage strict obedience to its teachings and have alienated churches which are caricatured as practicing a secularised, diluted form of Christianity
Edited sentence: Destiny claims to follow Biblical principles.It encourages strict obedience to its teachings.It has alienated churches which are caricatured as practicing a secularised, diluted form of Christianity.It is multicultural, drawing members mainly from lower socio-economic sections of society, many Māori and Polynesian people, and also many others, including New Zealand Europeans