Never invite a wordly relative or friend to a witness gathering! (page 2)

Enigma One

I remember a few times when "worldly" people were invited to one of my parent's get togethers. They would say, "It will show them how normal, and down to Earth we are". It would have the opposite effect of course. It showed them how weird and bizarre everyone was.

Now when I go home to visit folks and they have Witnoids over, they will start talking to me about various JW things. I laugh to myself at how completely insane these people are.

How did I ever turned out to be a functioning adult, I'll never know.

blondie

Of course as in everything else the WTS does, this is applied in whatever way suits them. I have seen rich, influential non-JWs, spouses of JWs invited to many JW social gatherings. Some attended meetings once in awhile, but most did not, maybe the memorial. If you were poor and a little odd, then you did not get invited even if your spouse and children were JWs.

I know a brother who pointed this out once to the PO after he had counseled him about bringing his non-JW brother to a JW picnic. He pointed to 3 non-JW husbands that were there. The PO was almost apoplectic that this brother should point out the PO's hypocrisy.

Blondie (seen it all)

juni

Like Blondie - seen it all. Class distinction does make a difference though. Worldly people are the scum of the earth; they're a step up from scum if they show interest in the lit which may qualify them to be invited. Depends HOW interested they are.

Juni~~~~~~~~

MerryMagdalene

I'm sorry. I don't know why this jumped out at me as it is slightly off-topic but

Jesus counseled us to manifest genuine interest in others. (Luke 10:29-37) But equally inspired and necessary is Paul’s counsel

I never really thought of anyone being just as inspired as Jesus, the Son of God..."equally inpired"...amazing...and yet, in spite of this "equality" they somehow manage to elevate Paul's counsel above the counsel and example of Jesus ("This man welcomes sinners and eats with them."--Lu 15:2)

~Merry

Double Edge

LOL, that is so twisted. The bizarre "gatherings" would be the LAST thing that would encourage a normal person to join the borg!

ROFL.

tijkmo

One Christian elder became so involved with a female employee that he abandoned his family and took up living with her! Disfellowshipping resulted

but surely there are more examples of elders getting involved with sisters and the same thing happening...(like me)

does that mean that meetings and fs should be cited as warning examples

willyloman

Merry: Good catch!

A householder, who apparently knew a lot more about dubs than he let on, once said we weren't following true Christianity, we were following "Paul-ianity." I couldn't get him to elaborate; however, I knew exactly what he meant. I've often thought of going back to his door now and thanking him for planting that seed.

SusanHere

Willyloman,

Please explain your reference to Paul. If it is a good seed-planting statement, I can use it.

Thanks,

Susan

stillAwitness

who have no interest in the truth to social gatherings

Hmmm, and yet at the last gathering I went to the sister there invited her bible study along...Does anyone know if that counts?

willyloman

susan, here is what I think the householder was getting at:

Christianity stems from the teachings of Christ. Paulianity would, therefore, stem from Paul's writings and teachings. My understanding of the hh's point was that JWs (and other religions as well) are based on Paul's teachings rather than Christ's and that Paul's teachings were a filtered version of what Christ set down, being basically interpretations of what Paul (and others) thought Christ taught.

In other words, Christ set down some excellent priniciples, but then men came along (led by Paul and the other writers) who gave it their own human spin... and that's what we rely on today. Certainly the WTS relies heavily on teachings other than those of Jesus, especially those found in the Old Testament, and they rely on Paul as their authority for many of the JW doctrines - women not teaching in the synagogue, for example, as opposed to Jesus' obvious acceptance of women as relative equals in the Bible.

Never invite a wordly relative or friend to a witness gathering!

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