"What is the GB? Figure-heads only. Lawyers and Executives run the company and set policy and doctrine." Good insight most people think the GB are the ultimate authority but are in fact puppets and a front being directed by the real unknown rulers of the org.
What is driving change at WTS? What is the GB? Has it failed the flock?
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Blueblades
Question 1 ) Fear from the legal issues coming at them every day. 2 ) Men who listen to the legal department. 3 ) Since 1975 it has failed big time, and is continuing to fail. Remember , they recently admitted in print, that they have no more Holy Spirit or Special Knowledge than the rank and file have. Which means that you Yada and all of us are on equal status when it comes to sitting down with the GB. Real Estate and Publishing $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Blueblades
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nvrgnbk
Jehovah's Witnesses are becoming more and more irrelevant with every passing year.
Ex- Jehovah's Witnesses..........................................now that's a progressive bunch.
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yaddayadda
All those persons who attend the memorial but don't commit to the organisation, what is holding them back? Most of them don't commit because they don't want all the pressure and responsibility that goes with being a JW, such as the pressure to attend all the meetings, the pressure to go door-to-door and report your time, the pressure to join the TMS and give talks, and because they are bugged by certain fanatical policies and teachings, such as shunning, no birthdays/Christmas, etc.
The Society is sitting on a goldmine with all these memorial attendees who are just sitting on the fence. It's been this way for years and years. Millions of persons who attend the memorial each year (and a few other meetings) but won't do anything else. They are attracted to the JW message but don't want to commit for the reasons mentioned above (because they are not stupid enough too).
All the Society needs to do is remove/amend the distasteful policies and teachings that are keeping these people away. Make it easier for them to join. It's their best immediate strategy.
They need to innovate. They have nearly exhausted the scale of their market - They are in every country in the world yet publisher growth is now definitely slowing down, being only a few years away (10-15 at the most) from going into the red. Their strategy must now be on the products (scope), no longer on the scale. They have to improve the recipe and rebrand some products to make them more palatable.
The GB - as nothing more than a religionised Board of Directors dominated by legal, financial, managerial considerations rather than genuine, humble concern for alignment with scriptural truth above all else - will show its true colours very soon and start compromising on its fanatical, hardline policies and teachings. It HAS to in order to meet its prime goals: money, publisher stats, growth - all remaining in the black.