My wife says that I am anti-elder.
Once my wife ratted me out to the elders because I got angry a couple of times during our earlier years of marriage and used a couple of "cuss" words. She told me that if I didn't go to the elders and tell them then she would.
She gave me like a week or so and I didn't do it so she went. Next thing I know they were sitting us down in the "B school" so I could explain my wrongful behavior. What's funny about all that is this.
Elder A's wife left him a couple of months later for a WOMAN. He would get married a couple of years later and then beat his new wife. They'd be separated shortly afterward.
Elder B's wife was a stumbling alcoholic and his daughter would later get disfellowshipped for giving people blow jobs. Elder B would leave the congregation because he felt that the disfellowshipping was WRONG because it happened a year before it was discovered and had passed some imaginary statute of limitations.
Later we would receive a shepherding call from two different elders. (Elder's C and D). I was informed by Elder C that I was a liar because I was not having a family study regularly enough and that I lied about my marriage vows.
Found out later that Elder C had been disfellowshipped in the past for cheating on his wife and so had elder D. Both Elder C and D had daughters who fornicated and became pregnant.
In the last congregation we were in, one of the more "popular" elders had many problems. He flirted and heavily openly with sisters, some of whom were married. He had unscrupulous business practices (he cheated people) and then when he was discovered he would change congregations. He would borrow hundreds of thousands of dollars from other well to do brothers and never pay them back. His last act at that congregation was to leave his wife of some twenty-five years for some younger office girl. His son (a ministerial servant) once cussed out his mother. (Witness or not, how does a father let a son cuss out his wife?)
These are just a few of my more recent experiences with the elder body. My wife thinks that these people are legitimately spirit appointed people provided for our help. When I say that I don't need their help she thinks I am being anti-elder and anti-Organization. Her defense is that they are imperfect. My response, in question form, is: Then what makes them different from me? I can look up material in the Watchtower library CD just like they can.
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