by TheListener 5 Replies latest watchtower bible
Song 38
10 min: Local announcements.
15 min: Local needs.
20 min: "What Our Ministry Accomplishes." * When considering paragraph 5, include comments on the February 15, 2004, Watchtower, page 32.
song 26 and concluding prayer.
* Limit introductory comments to less than a minute, and follow with a question-and-answer discussion.
As always..............not any difference from my last service meeting somewhere about 2001 or 2002 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ !
the poor sods, sitting there week after week on a Tuesday or Thursday night in some chilly kingdom hall, enduring this joyless, dry, dull stuff, year after year. It's about as exciting as sitting through a 2 hour work staff meeting once a week at night.
Poor zombies. Lord help them.
Local Needs--the elders in several congregations always called these "special needs."
Can you imagine that the elders sit around the table at the elders meetings trying to come up with a topic? And the best they can do is gum under the chairs and pen ink on the seats. The only time it is lively is when someone is DF'd and they give a talk a few weeks later about the "sin" involved. As if the publishers can't put 2 and 2 together.
As the following, if I had a nickel for every Saturday I went out and the other publishers had not read the magazines, I could have retired ten years ago. And JWs that haven't even read the WT by the time the WT study comes around....
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w04 2/15 p. 32 Why Do Jehovah’s Witnesses Keep Calling on You? ***WORLDWIDE, the persistence with which Jehovah’s Witnesses engage in their house-to-house ministry is well-known. Some people wonder why the Witnesses keep calling on them, especially if they have previously shown little interest in the Witnesses’ message. Two letters from Russia help to explain the reason.
"To be honest," admits Masha, a 19-year-old girl in Khabarovsk, "in the past, I would avoid Jehovah’s Witnesses like the plague." However, after reading a few copies of the magazines published by the Witnesses, she changed her attitude. "It is all so very interesting and enlightening," writes Masha, "but most important, it makes you look at the world differently. I slowly began to understand why people are given a life to live."
From the city of Ussuriysk, about 50 miles [80 km] north of Vladivostok, Svetlana wrote: "I have just recently begun to read The Watchtower and Awake! These magazines are very much needed in our day and age. I enjoy all the articles. They are very interesting, informative, and enlightening. Thank you! Thank you very much for being in this world and for doing such a kind and needed work."
Jehovah’s Witnesses the world over take seriously the apostle Paul’s thought-provoking question: "How, in turn, will [people] hear without someone to preach?" (Romans 10:14) Why not take a few minutes to listen the next time the Witnesses visit you? You too may enjoy the message of comfort found in God’s Word, the Bible.
"What Our Ministry Accomplishes." ** Limit introductory comments to less than a minute
Now THAT would be an easy assignment to keep on-time. I think I could explain what it accomplishes and have 55 seconds to spare!
Dave
20 min: "What Our Ministry Accomplishes."
When did they start having a lengthy silence in the middle of the meeting?
