Did You Feel Better After Confessing Your Sins To The Elders?

by minimus 27 Replies latest jw friends

  • minimus
    minimus

    Did you feel "more right" with Jehovah?

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  • Bonnie_Clyde
    Bonnie_Clyde

    I never confessed my sins. I always felt it was between me and Jehovah. Besides, I didn't feel I ever did anything they wouldn't have done.

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  • Mandette
    Mandette

    The one time I was involved in a Judicial Circus, I said all the right things and then tried to convince myself that I meant them

    The only thing I felt better about was not losing my relationship with my parents.

    What a crock it was. Loving concern my big A$$!!!! They were more concerned with the dirty details NOT how bad I felt or anything concerning me.

    idiots

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  • minimus
    minimus

    I saw obviously repentant ones NOT get reinstated or wind up getting DF'd simply because of procedure or dumb elders.

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  • crapola
    crapola

    Minimus, I saw the same thing happen. My sister made a major mistake and confessed to the elders the same day it happened and was disfellowshipped the following week. So much for being repentant.

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  • crapola
    crapola

    Oh and one more thing, 5 years later there still some self righteous people in the town she used to live in that will barely speak to her.

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  • cameo-d
    cameo-d

    but...but...

    only the POPE has the authority for absolution of sins....

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  • minimus
    minimus

    I always thought it was hypocritical for JWs to slam priests when the elders acted in the same position---only worse!

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  • WTWizard
    WTWizard

    I always wussed out on confessing. And I am not about to go back to the Kingdumb Hell to confess to apostasy, having my sun-worship lights up, listening to rap (and sun-worship music), and my Ouija board.

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  • Plummet
    Plummet

    Not at all. In fact I usually felt worse. No not only did I know about my "sin" but now my parents, siblings & the E-Team knew about it as well as anyone that the E-team spouces talked to.

    What I found FUNNY is that I have been called before them TWICE for the EXACTLY same "sin".

    The First Time

    I turned Myself in, cried and confessed, I took action to correct the problem, but lots in the Congregation Knew about it.

    And I was Disfellowshiped

    The Second Time

    I was turned in by my spouce, I kept cool and calm, confessed some, did not give all details, I took some action to correct the "problem" and NOBODY in the Congregation knew about it (except for my spouce - who turned me in).

    And I was Reproved

    I did not beleive it before, but I beleive it now - It is ALL about appearance. Its not what you do, who you know, what you know, or who you do, its how you look and more importantly, how you make them look.

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