by maninthemiddle 8 Replies latest jw friends
It looks like the Catholics are trying to bring lost members home. Would this approach work with JWs? I can think of some it may work on, but not me or most.
Is this more useful to those that simply don't attend anymore, or those that have converted?
http://www.catholicscomehome.org/
There is one HUGE difference...Your search - site:www.catholicscomehome.org excommunicated - did not match any documents.
This concerns me on Wiki, about Jehovah's Witnesses:
The official published membership statistics include only those who submit reports for their personal ministry; official statistics do not include "inactive" and disfellowshipped members or those who merely attend meetings. As a result, only about half of those who self-identified as Jehovah's Witnesses in independent demographic studies are considered "active" by the faith itself.
So, this indicates there are twice many JWs, but only half are 'active.' So half of the 'claiming' to be JWs, are in limbo. These are potential 'active' JWs, though may be the 'revolving door' JWs.
I think you are saying of the about 7 mil claimed to be "publishers" there are many more who identify as JW?
That makes sense, I have met people who were disfellowshipped and still believed the doctrine, I have also met people who got reinstated just to be with family, they still identified and JWs. I think they could be included in the "potential" count.
I differ with the notion that only 50% of witnesses are counted by the WTBTS as witnesses. The witnesses (through orders by the CO) will somehow get practically every single person who goes to any meetings (even if only once a month) to enter 15 minutes of "service" so they can be counted. They are very conscious of the number of publishers and hours - even to the point of exaggerating what counts as "service".
As to getting people who knowingly left them on doctrinal or personal rights issues to come back, I cannot see them ever liberalizing enough to make anything much happen on that course.
The WTS gives the illusion of trying.
1) The tell elders and the rank and file to call up and call on inactive jws....to encourage them to go to the meetings. But few follow through.
2) Just before the memorial they tell members to make a point to invite inactive jws but few do.
3) The CO will call on one or 2 inactive jws during this visit (mostly because there are few bible studies that can reschedule to day time)
4) Then it is soap, wash, rinse every year.
2) Just before the memorial they tell members to make a point to invite inactive jws but few do.
If just attending the memorial (and doing nothing else) is a reasonable bare minimum of activity for someone claiming to be a witness, then they have not done a very good job of finding and bringing in these inactive witnesses.
do they only count you if you are not inactive? Just because the congregation still has your records, you are not counted in the 7 mil, right?
My x still thinks he's a JW, he went to the KH once in the last decade lol lol lol
You have to have turned in a time report with a minimum of 1 hour/month (if healthy) and 15 min (if old and/or chronically ill). You are considered inactive if you do not turn in a slip for 6 months consecutively. Then you won't be in "those numbers."
