Welcome, Annie. I'd like to help you wade through your confusion, if I can. What would you say is the top feature of the Watchtower Society that leads you to believe they have it better than any other church out there?
Something Jakes said
by Annie Over 12 Replies latest jw friends
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Annie Over
To everyone who gave me such a great welcome, I am so very thankful.. You can't imagine how nice it is to be welcomed instead of getting all the askance glances I get when I go to the Hall.
Jgnat, I appreciate how you would like to help me through this. I'm not sure I can be helped at this time, because even this morning I almost decided to go to the Hall. When I was active I was either studying to go on one of my Bible Studies or I was studying for a meeting or just studying the Bible for myself. I remember walking up the sidewalk to an assembly of over 18,000.. The joy I felt at that time.. I actually turned to a sister walking beside me and I quoted Pslams...I was GLAD when they said to me, let us go up to the house of the Lord. I loved Jehovah sooo much, and I still love and worship him. It isn't Jehovah's fault that people act like they do. It isn't his fault that I quit going to the Hall.
Well now I'm crying so I'll stop here.
Thanks again gang. I love all of you -
jgnat
So it is your intense love of Jehovah that draws you, and you are convinced that feeling of belonging and worship cannot be found elsewhere? I was never a JW, but I have attended several types of evangelical type churches. I can promise you that fellowship and that worship can be as intense and beautiful elsewhere. With a fraction of the people problems.
The organization is designed to breed gossip and trouble, being as isolated and confined as you all are. There are better places, I assure you.