by Pistoff 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
I need numbers; can anyone tell me how many are df'd in one year?
Joel Engardio, (you know, not a witness, not for him, but of the (un)learned opinion that it is a group of harmless people) states that 30,000 people a year are df'd but a large number come back.
I say it has to be higher, more like 100,000 worldwide.
Any reliable numbers?
I remember reading, though I can't think where, that the annual figure
was more like 40,000+ on average. I don't know if that includes the
number of those who da themselves or not.
I guess the watchtower would be the only ones who would have
the exact figure, and they don't put it in their annual service report
as far as I know.
I heard 40,000 too, but that was way back when there were 2 or 3 million worldwide. It has to be higher now.
Anyone?
w91 11/15 p. 9 par. 4 Self-Control—Why So Important? **
*This sobering truth has forcefully been brought home to us by the exclusion of over 40,000 erring individuals from fellowship with the Christian congregation during the past service year, largely because of grossly wrong conduct. To these must be added the many who were given reproof, mostly for sexual immorality
Are JWs giving the flick if they vote?
40,000 is a lot of people and this does not include all of us faders. I always heard that jws are a fast growing religion, but they have a large back door also.
Think of all the lives effected each year because of the shunning policy.
