i have an idea. who wants to roll play? most of us here were witnesses at one point. i've been seeing threads asking for advise on how to confront witnesses. what if we play a game, where someone will post something we may want to say to our families, then, we all act like witnesses and think what they may say, then figure out good rebuttals for that. i'd like for it to be serious. hopefully we can strengthen each other. kind of like a ministry school for apostates. any one game?
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by bigdreaux 15 Replies latest jw friends
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journey-on
Kind of like overcoming objections, only reversed???
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bigdreaux
excately, that way, you have ammo, and your ready for anything someone can throw at you.
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bigdreaux
something like, the society whitewashed what really happened in 1914. what would a witness say to that?
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Pioneer Spit...oh, i mean Spirit
We're in. Sounds great, would be helpful to a few people I hope.
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journey-on
Bigdreaux....I think this is a great idea. The board seems a little slow tonight though, so if you don't get some hits, lets bump this up tomorrow.
Edit: Not only a little slow, but sort of "down" even...
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emptywords
How can the society wreck peoples hopes and lifes by their crazy prophecies of dates, then take no blame when they fail to come true and then treat the b/s like half wits and blame them.
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journey-on
I'll take this one:
Well, Brother Emptywords, it's true in the past some of the brothers have gotten a bit over zealous in their desire to see Jehovah's will for the earth fulfilled. And they may have given some erroneous dates out of their overzealousness, but this does not negate the fact that this is Jehovah's organization being guided by his holy spirit. Imperfect men make errors, but we have to wait on Jehovah to correct them. If you allow your faith to be weakened by this, well, all I can say is you're opening the way for Satan to enter in.
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emptywords
It is up to Jehovah to deal with what they have done, and I do believe that they treated the b/s very wrongly regargless if they b/s were over zealous, the WTS has never taken any responsibility for there past mistakes which have cost the many unnescessay hardship. I wait.
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journey-on
Brother Emptywords, I don't have the exact WT article in front of me at the moment, but I do recall information admitting that in the past we may have gone ahead of Jehovah in presenting possible dates, however, we DO know that in 1914 Christ Jesus began to rule from the right hand of Jehovah. Our brothers and sisters should remain united with the faithful and discreet slave in these final last days, and just as Christ taught forgiveness, perhaps we should forgive those who overstepped their bounds. If any of our brothers and sisters suffered because of this overzealousness, I'm sure praying to Jehovah to help them overcome bitterness and anger will benefit them. Remember "love covers a multitude of sins".