by JimmyPage 14 Replies latest jw friends
I hated giving talks and cancelled most of them at the last minute. I got to the point where I didn't bother calling the school overseer. I'd just send him an email an hour before the meeting. If he neglected to check his email, that wasn't my problem as far as I was concerned.
Wow. I was the Super-MS pinch hitter. I could BS my way through any of these. The last couple of years I started sneaking in subtle apostasisms but never got called on it.
BTS
Never had to pump myself up over a 5 min. talk with just one person. If women were not supposed to teach, does the society make sure that our parts don't teach anything? Seriously though, since the audience was watching and learning, the society was breaking the rule in the Bible about keeping silent and not teaching the cong.
I actually believed I had to do my best for my Bros. and Sistas, I always got nervous,especially before a Public Talk,but I prepared well,with lots of stuff culled from independant sources, BIble Commentaries etc. (no internet then)
And I used to Pray before I went on,and after, I would give a prayer of thanks.
Sounds a bit prissy now,but I believed that it worked,and someone wrote to me the other day and mentioned the talks I used to give in a favourable way,so I guess somehow my pumping up method did something.
Eventually I asked to be relieved of the "privilege" of Public Talks,as the outlines were such utter crap and they were coming down a bit on independant stuff.
Love
Wobble
No - not at all.
Of course... I ao way back - to the time when they had those Thursday night 5-minuters for 'brothers'. I never got beyond giving those.
I usually put very little preparation into the talks - and never got nervous when called up to give the talk. Even during the talk - I never got rattled... it was over - and I would sit down and receive the 'council' - or whatever it was called.
Of course - I don't remember much from those days - it's been over 25 years ago.
Regards,
Jim TX
LOL, now see why you fell out of da truth..you fed your mind on worldly violent rap music before your talks...
