by cameo-d 7 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
Who decides when to terminate a study?
Does the decision come from "higher up"?
Is field servant required to discuss "progress" of study with a determining committee?
Is a study terminated when they ask too many unanswerable questions?
Or if they are not baptised within 6 months?
What is criteria for a JW to terminate the study?
(Or were most studies terminated by the victim?)
In my case I finished the books(Bible Teach and God's Love) and had been made an unbaptisted publisher and they thought I would get baptisted but my son in law
was DF'd and that sort of woke me up and now I am a fader just go once in a while most for my daughter and granddaughters but I am about done with even that.
O.N.
I had inherited this study from a brother who was moving out of state and it had been going on for about a year. It was a simple decision from one of the elders that I terminate the study. No fanfare or in depth discussion were involved.
It was a simple decision from one of the elders that I terminate the study
Do you think it was the decision of that one elder or do you think it had been discussed among several?
Do you have to report to elders "how study is going" from time to time?
Do they sort of set unspoken time limits? Or do they make judgements according to other things as to whether your study "qualifies" to be a JW?
During the late 60's and 70's studies were conducted for 6 months, if student not attending some meetings, it was terminated.
Since then it has varied between one and two books that were to be studied.
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The Require brochure and the Knowledge book are publications used for conducting many Bible studies. After they have been completed, if it is evident that a person is making progress, even slowly, and that he is developing appreciation for what he is learning, then the study may be continued in the WorshipGod book.
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Our Kingdom Ministry for September 1993 recommended that a home Bible study be continued with newly interested ones until two books have been studied. Now that we have the Knowledge book, it seems advisable to make an adjustment in this procedure, as outlined on pages 13 and 14 of the January 15, 1996, issue of The Watchtower.
The Knowledge book is designed to help those "rightly disposed for everlasting life" to learn what they need to know in order to make a dedication to Jehovah and get baptized. (Acts 13:48) Therefore, after completing this new publication, it should not be necessary to study a second book with the same student. As your Bible students begin to embrace the truth, you can progressively encourage them to round out their knowledge by attending meetings of Jehovah’s Witnesses as well as by reading the Bible and various Christian publications
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But there was something more to the surprise that was in store for assembly delegates. The new Truth book was to be used in a six-month Bible study program. Because of the way this publication involved the student, generally by the time he completed it he would take some action, either for or against the truth. No longer would one of Jehovah’s witnesses conduct Bible studies with an individual year after year without the student’s making definite spiritual progress, acting upon the knowledge gained.
Actually you could study as long as you wanted. It was dependent on individual elders in each congregation who decided that studies should be cancelled if you wanted to turn in a slip.
I have seen it wobble between 6 months then stop. One book. Twoo books. go round again.
I knew an elduh who studied for 17 years (40s then 50s) before he got baptised.
Jesus said that some seedsproduce different harvests. But seeds also take different times to grow. Just another example of the shallow cookie-cutter ChristyDamnity of the Witchtower.
"SALVATION - One size fits all."
HB
By the time the server takes this post, it will have likely changed from a 6 month time limit to "as long as it takes" several more times--and that's if the server is extremely fast.
There is no limit on how long you can study. I studied from the time I was about 10 and I finally got baptized when I was 17. it depends on the person who is studying and the progress they are making. Yes a study can be terminiated if it is determined that the person is not making progress or it is just a pointless study.
Example being I knew someone who was studying with a Mormon and the Mormon just refused to acknowledge that the Trinity didn't exist and that God and Jesus were 2 seperate people. The study was terminated shortly after that. In the case of an Elder outside of the study deciding that it would be best to terminate that study, I'm sure it was discussed and came to the agreement that it wasn't progressing and wasn't appropriate to continue the study.
