New Light on 1914 (page 3)

blondie

I have been doing some research on the Christadelphians and I think they allow women to handle certain administrative responsibilities but not to preach from the platform or to pray form the congregation. But let me check my notes at home...I could be confusing them with a Bible Student ecclesia. The same could happen in the WTS congregations. I have heard elders suggest sisters handle microphones (and known of it happening in small congregations) and sisters doing the accounts and auditing behind the scenes. Sisters work in accounting at Bethel.

Blondie

Virgochik

Gosh, are sisters smart enough to do accounting?? Hahaha!

slimboyfat

Giving sisters responsibility in the congregation? Things may be getting bad, but surely they aren't that desperate, yet.

looking_glass

Actually in small congs in rual areas a sister has done it all. At one time in the deep south there was a cong that had only one bro who was the MS. However, there were a number of "sisters". The "sisters" were allowed to give talks as long as they wore head coverings (hmm, sound a lot like the middle east where certain religions won't let the women show their faces and beat them if they are deemed out of line by the men). It is my understanding that during the late 70's that practice stopped as it was "misleading" and allowed the "sisters" to hold positions of authority. Lest the women appear to be intelligent and lead the cong astray.

jws

Maybe they're going to implement a tithing system that's a percentage of your paycheck. Maybe they'll set up a system to automatically deduct it from a checking account or credit card. Get the most money out of those you have.

But seriously, I do not think they're only a corporation out for money. Otherwise they wouldn't make it such a wierd cult to join. They'd let you celebrate birthdays and holidays.

1914 has no basis in fact. 607 BC is a phony date. And 1914 (even with the new generation "understanding") is getting out-dated fast. Let's say somebody came to your door and said Jesus started reigning in 1776, 230 years ago. You'd automatically think they're full of it. The further away 1914 gets, the more of a crackpot theory it sounds like. Problem is, doing away with it is a big problem. There are many people on this board who got "stumbled" by the generational change.

It could be a big build-up to nothing. Some obscure teaching. Some modern-day whatsit class now includes unbaptised publishers!!!

silentWatcher

Guess it depended on where you lived. For me, it was most definitely announced, and very clearly and deliberately, at the 1995 district convention in Hamilton, Ontario,

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it was 1993 in the US. The first talks after lunch on Saturday. Yor're welcome to look the program up. I remember at the time making a crack about "the collective jeh-hoggie induced coma" afflicting most of those in attendance, and my mom bursting out with laughter.

Either that or indigestion as the jeh-hoggie, warm Shashta soda, and stale pudding put each through a private "great tribulation", indicating that a "great cleansing" would be emminent in the restroom.

I remember our battle cry well: "Beware the wrath of jeh-hoggie", followed by a loud farting noise.

-silent

Mary

Giving sisters responsibility in the congregation? Things may be getting bad, but surely they aren't that desperate, yet.

I agree. I think they'd get rid of 1914, the blood issue, Field Service, the Book Study, have inter-faith orgies and stick needles in their eyes before they let the sisters handle the microphones. I mean come on-----we might demand the Literature Counter next!!

serendipity

I think that more blood policy tweaking or perhaps tithing would be the new light.

New Light on 1914

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