You are right Bad Girl the whole approach of the JWs to preaching is very artificial and strained, even that having to give a record of your time is plain ridiculous. In the early church not everyone preached except through their chaste style of living and that's difficult enough to sustain. Giving time slips is for them to be able to check on the congos and pressure them to do more in case they don't do enough according to the manmade WTS standards.
Am I still an unbaptised publisher?
by Bad Girl 15 Replies latest jw friends
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zeroday
Think about it, if the "TRUTH" was actually the truth what would the WTS have to fear from the internet, so called apostates or anyone else. Instead they try to supress outside information, to squash any decenting voice. What do they have to hide the "TRUTH" can withstand any scrutiny.
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plmkrzy
The ‘bible studies’ are not really bible studies but WT questions and answers. If you notice how the studies are designed you’ll see they are set up in a way that there can only be one or two correct answers to the questions. They ask the questions for you and you find the answers in each paragraph they supply. There really isn’t any ‘discussion’ about the bible. It is extremely programmed with very little room for free though. You are better off researching on your own IMHO if you want to learn about what the bible teaches.
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Bad Girl
Oh yes I totally agree with that, I used to hate the WT studies they were so boring, I always preferred the public talk
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Good Girl or Bad Girl?
Welcome to the forum, Bad Girl.
Good Girl or Bad Girl
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stapler99
If you became an unbaptised publisher then the congregation may still have you on file as 'inactive'. I think this is the state I am in even though I haven't been to a meeting or on the field service in over a year. I believe that the congregation secretary or someone has a box with all the 'record cards' listing the field ministry service reports that everyone has put in. These get taken to the circuit overseer when he visits, to see the state of the congregation and so on. I've heard that sometimes the elders have 'inactive initiatives' to try and get people back though they're unlikely to try and target me in this way, I think.