MALVEAUX: Hundreds of people in Cologne, Germany, have been watching this story unfold with special interest, because they are members of Jones' former church.
Using CNN's global resources, we found some of them willing to speak about their disillusionment, what ultimately led Jones to leave them. It is a compelling part of the story.
And they shared it with CNN's Phil Black. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For 20 years, Heinz and Elka Koop followed their pastor, Terry Jones. For 19 of those years, they trusted his every word.
HEINZ KOOP, FORMER JONES FOLLOWER: He was a charismatic leader. I think he was -- the preference was very strong for us.
BLACK: Jones' church, the Christian Community of Cologne, became the focus of their lives. Jones insisted on it, borrowing an infamous Nazi motto.
H. KOOP: And we worked the whole week, also Sunday and Saturday.
BLACK (on camera): For the church?
ELKA KOOP, FORMER JONES FOLLOWER: Yes.
H. KOOP: For the church, yes.
E. KOOP: Work made free.
BLACK: Is that what he said?
E. KOOP: Yes.
BLACK: Work makes you free?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.
In German, of course, this translates into "Arbeit Macht Frei", if that sounds familiar to you, it should, you can see the phrase on the gates of Auschwitz.