At first, I thought not. Then I started thinking back to one congregation in Georgia where lived a family that had it in for me. To this day, I have no idea what sparked the bad blood "between us." They were constantly critical of me and my decisions.
Still, I didn't really have any bad blood toward them until the father and a son went to the elders and very seriously told them they thought I might be a government spy. They even made a case for that belief. An elder came and questioned me about it, initially refusing to reveal the names of my accusers because they claimed to be afraid of me. At the time, I weighed 140 pounds dripping wet. The father was a truck driver (enough said) and the son easily outweighed me by a good 20 pounds.
At the time, I had befriended a bunch of guys in the area and we went camping fairly often in North Georgia. Some of these guys started to be convinced they were having dreams of their role in the Great Tribulation. One saw himself as being apopinted to lead a group of JWs into the woods for safe keeping, stuff like that. But they believed these dreams were going to come true. So I would encourage them along the lines that if those dreams were going to come true, what sort of men would they need to be first?
I was later questioned by the elders about encouraging these guys to believe these dreams. Again, same family had done the accusing. I just asked the questioning elder (who is since no longer a JW, as it turns out) "Did Jesus correct every wrong idea his disciples had as soon as they said them, or did he use wrong ideas as an opportunity to encourage the disciples toward productive spiritual thinking?"
Later, I was accused of inappropriate conduct in public with my fiancé. Same family brought the accusation again.
Finally I just told the elders that if they get any more accusations from that family that they need not even ask me about them since I wouldn't respond to their questioning anymore unless that family first came to me with their accusations.
