Hey Everybody. Sorry for not getting these up sooner. Here are the notes for the second day of the assembly program. As you can see, this day was more packed full of all sorts of strange reasonings and exaggerated points made to get everybody excited about this religion. I hope this is a help to some of you.
To help with my concentration I did a little expierment. I counted how many times I heard "the faithful slave" against how many times I heard mention of "Jesus". The results are at the end of my notes.
Circuit Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses
Program 2005-2006
Theme: Clothes Yourselves With the New Personality -Col 3:10
SUNDAY MORNING
10:00 - Being made New Through Daily Text Reminders
Basically a discussion of that days text. Point was brought out that "We need to compare what we are to what we should be". The "word" for Christians is the preaching of the good news Matt 24:14,28:19-20.
This explanation is obviously a distortion of what the good news really is, which is Jesus. Instead the good news is tied up in some modern organization, how absurd. Quite the way to start off the day. It was then on to the Symposium:
10:15 Cultivating the Tongue of the Wise Ones
Part 1: How Jehovah Views the Use of the Tongue
We are accountable to God for the things we say and do. We have learned the "pure language", a new vocabulary.
Part 2: Wholesome Speech Among Outsiders
How do we deal with people on "the outside"? What does our speech reflect. Col 4:5-6
Part 3: Keep Building One Another Up
Bible shapes our personality. Eph 4:25 Many people in "the world" are liers, lets not be like them.
Could these general labels of "the world" being liers any more retarded?
Part 4: Speak About Jehovah's Glory and Kingship
Everything pales in comparison to Jehovah and his glory. Ps 145:1 Where is Satan leading his people? Jehovahs organization is accomplishing amazing things. Spiritual Nation is to rue over the earth. Here's a great quote "Bethel pales in comparison to Gods heavenly Organization". Huh....
Sing a song, then on to...
11:10 Watchtower Summary
I heard this three times!!!
We are part of a "Multi Lingual Bible Educational Work"
Read Daniel 7:14, The Watchtower magazine IN YOUR HANDS is in fulfillment of this prophecy. Matthew 28:19 HAS BEEN FULLFILLED
11:40 - Giving Attention to the Needs of the Circuit
Beware of dangerous association. Three problems have been noticed.
1. Alcohol usage. Big parties where people are over indulging.
2. Music and Dancing. People are getting out of hand with thiner conduct as regards these things. Satan will use this to carry us off as his pray. Music has power!
3. Our Dress. We should stand out in a world that continues to lower its standards. Gen chapter 3 tells us of the first fashion (I hate this kind of talk!). Jehovah had a real interest in what people wear. Just like the Israelites we have dedicated our lives to god. Follow the principles. Are we wearing our badges after the convention??? Declare "I AM ON OF JEHOVAHS WITNESSES!"
Afternoon
Public Address: Are You Conquering the Wicked One?
Just a side point, does anybody from the public attend this stuff, or even know about it? Gosh!
1 John 5:19, Rom 12:12, 1 Peter 5:8,9. Satan knows he can't change the mind of Jehovahs people as a whole. Only a minority of people have served Jehovah throughout history. The world continues to lower its standards. We should not base our standards on theirs. Satan tries to "corrupt" our thinking. 3 ways we can guard against this:
1.Be strong spiritually
2.Read and Study the Bible
3.Brotherly Love
4.Avoid apostates
5.Prayer
Would we ever divorce our mate because somebody else wronged us? Of course not! Then why would we stop coming to meetings and "divorce" ourselves from Jehovah because somebody wronged us at the kingdom hall.
At the end of the talk the brother went into a little rant about apostates. Of course the reasoning was totally flawed and only used as a scare tactic. I sounded like this:
Do we want to follow those who have left the truth? Do they have something better? Better than Gods organization and his channel. Jehovah says they are no longer apart of us. If they want to go out and publish book, let them. But we are no part of them, we will avoid them.
The part on apostates was great. It was like hearing a politician. Five minutes of talk and not one logical argument.
2:35 - Keep yourself Without spot from the world
We interact with all kinds of people who are not Christians. Never loose sight of the danger of intimate relationships with worldly people. We are happily removed from them (What?). These ones are not spiritual. Gods Organization has congregations of good people. Some are careless in the congregation. What did paul say? Keep yourself without spot. Watch your association in the congregation as well. Some spots can't be seen with the naked eye "like a spot on the lung". We want to live without spot. We welcome the diagnosis. Avoid worldly thinking. Things that spot us
1.Material Things.
2.Pride
3.Entertainment. Satan has made unclean things mainstream.
How many of us can keep up with the faithful slave? (umm, what about Christ?) What is this doing to us spiritually? It's a privilege to be set apart. We don't want filth to enter Gods congregation.
3:05 - Daily Renewing the Man we are inside
2Cor 7, Congregation problems can get the best of us. They will be fixed in time. Paul was happy for the Corinthians and their ability to fix their problems. We don't stop the ministry because of congregation problems. Keep looking for sheep. Fulfill Bible prophecy. Daily renew the spiritual person we are inside. "Once saved always saved" not spiritual. Keep testing if you are in the faith. 40,000 - 50,000 disfellowshipped every year. Less will be DF'ed if we continue to renew who we are inside. Some think it's just by "big moments of faith" that we will prove ourselves to God. No way. It's who we are every day. It's all worshiping Jehovah (but I guess it's not all sacred service?).
One anointed brother was out of the truth for three years. Why? He said "I quit studying". He started to study the Bible again and came back. We feed ourselves and are also fed by the organization. Use the NWT cross references. Personal Bible Study.
I noticed that all of their suggestions on Bible study during this convention were actually very poor suggestions in understanding the Bible. Instead of teaching the importance of understanding things like the reasons for a particular book being written, analysis of the content and the argumentation put forth by the writer more general and bland things are encouraged. "Picture yourself in the story" or "use the reference bible". They teach these people to remain spiritually weak. It's amazing.
That's the end of the ASSembly. It actually kept my attention more than usual, mainly because I knew my notes where going on the board, and I wanted them complete. I can't believe what you here when you REALLY pay attention to what is being said.
FINAL POINT
Here is numbers on how many times "faithful slave" was said against the number of times "Jesus" Was said
Faithful Slave: 17
Jesus: 25
These numbers don't prove anything except maybe this, the Watchtower Society simply doesn't stress the importance of Jesus enough. You would thing a Christian organization would simply say the word Jesus more than 25 time in a course of an entire day. Oh well
Hope you all have enjoyed my post.
Circut Assembly 2006 Notes, Part 2
by drew sagan 27 Replies latest jw friends
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drew sagan
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silentWatcher
Part 1: How Jehovah Views the Use of the Tongue
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You know, until I had my first girlfriend, I never understood why being able to roll my tongue was a useful skill
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garybuss
Eating, entertainment, and choice of wardrobe . . . hot assembly topics for Jehovah's Witnesses!
The "Watchtower" magazine fills Bible prophecy . . . yawn . . . -
blondie
We have learned the "pure language", a new vocabulary.
WTS vocabulary never found in the Bible
Kingdom hall
time slip
circuit overseer
presiding overseer
book study group
service meeting
active publisher
accounts report
good standing
Blondie
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DannyHaszard
study the Bible again and came back. We feed ourselves and are also fed by the organization. Use the NWT cross references. Personal Bible Study.
I embarked on a 6 year mnemonic extravaganza to memorize 2,000 scripts from the nwt cross reference edition.I achieved my goal and beamed with joy that i could now share God's word more fully.
When i came out with a modest introduction my JW peers where eaten up with jealous hatred.-Danny
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yaddayadda
Zephania 3: 8,9 clearly says that the 'pure language' is not given by Yahweh until AFTER he pours out his denunciation and burning anger and devours the earth. So how on earth can they claim that they are already speaking the 'pure language' of religious truth?
Oh yeah, that's right, that prophecy was fulfilled in 1914-1919!!!
LIKE, WHATEVER!!!!
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greendawn
Many years later they are still carrying on in the same vein, the WTS always tells the R&F what they should do or not do. However Biblically they have their own duties versus the R&F that they never talk about let alone honour. They are modern day Pharisees.
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serendipity
Hi Drew,
Thanks for taking the time to write this up.
So few JWs even bother reading the bible, when all they have to do is read and imagine. If they were actually admonished to REALLY study, would they bother?
Jesus is missing from the JW world. I think an interesting exercise would be to count similar occurrences in the Greek Scriptures. How many times Paul, James, Peter referred to themselves or the apostles VS. how many times they referred to Christ. Somehow I think the ratio would be lopsided, in Christ's favor.
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xjwms
Thank you for taking the time
Its sounds to me like all the rest...only now I can SEE the difference.
Anyone who is active, .. just goes, .. and when they leave they feel better because they think they have done the RIGHT thing.
Thats how I always felt about it.
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Gopher
What was mentioned at the assembly translated into plain English.
Gods Organization has congregations of good people.
Interpretation: You should feel safe inside a congregation of JW's.
Some are careless in the congregation. What did Paul say? Keep yourself without spot. Watch your association in the congregation as well. Some spots can't be seen with the naked eye "like a spot on the lung".
Interpretation: Well, maybe not. Watch out for those in the congregation! They could be hidden rocks below water!
Congregation problems can get the best of us. They will be fixed in time.
Interpretation: Wait on Jehovah. Don't complain if the congregation is a cesspool of corruption or hatred. It might get fixed, but if not, if you don't wait you're causing divisions and running ahead of our organization.
We don't stop the ministry because of congregation problems. Keep looking for sheep.
Interpretation: Even if the people in your hall are mean and rotten, keep pushing that Watchtower literature! People will love coming into our holy, clean organization anyhow.