by Aussie Oz 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
''Jehovah’s visible organization can use you, but can get along without you too. But you cannot get along without it. Fruitless ones are eventually pruned off and never missed as new ones are grafted in''.
ok... who can find the WT this gem of love is contained in?
just thought it might be fun to get people digging into the library... when looking for stuff you come across other real interesting stuff.
oz
That would be the 1/15/50 WT.
Hey, this is the first time I've posted since January.
*** w50 1/15 p. 26 par. 22 Who Will Share in the Final Witness? ***Jehovah’s visible organization can use you, but can get along without you too. But you cannot get along without it. Fruitless ones are eventually pruned off and never missed as new ones are grafted in. Pruned-off branches soon wither and die, being cut off from the circulating, life-giving sap. Likewise, if a hand or foot is cut from the human body the severed member perishes, or if it is kept inactive in a cramped position it goes to sleep, gets numb, loses its ability to move. The blood in which is the life fails to circulate to those parts, fails to bring in new food supplies and carry off waste matter. So it is with Jehovah’s visible organization. All must associate together, get the life-giving spiritual food that God circulates to his people through the organization, get the new truths that take away old ideas and the admonition that keeps down queer personal ideas, all of which keeps us fresh and strong and active, seeing eye to eye and fighting shoulder to shoulder. Don’t become a withered branch or a paralyzed foot. Don’t amputate yourself from the organization and commit spiritual suicide.—John 15:1-8.
AND FURTHER
*** w50 1/15 pp. 26-27 pars. 24-25 Who Will Share in the Final Witness? ***There is another class that manifests itself during these days of final witness. They know about the witness work of Jehovah’s witnesses. They believe that Jehovah’s witnesses have the best religion and that their publications present the most harmonious explanation of the Bible. Specially lovely and delightful do they consider the truths concerning the blessed conditions of living in Jehovah’s new world, and they come and listen as though to a beautiful song. They always come to the meetings when their favorite speakers are on the program, and seldom miss conventions, and never Memorial services. But they do not act upon what they hear, and zealous witnesses are likely to be considered extremists and fanatical by them. They will come to their senses too late, according to Ezekiel 33:31-33:
25 “They come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness. And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not. And when this cometh to pass, (lo, it will come,) then shall they know that a prophet hath been among them.” Christ Jesus spoke of this class as foolish, saying: “Every one that heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them not, shall be likened unto a foolish man, which built his house upon the sand: and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it.”—Matt. 7:26, 27.
Jehovah’s visible organization can use you, but can get along without you too. But you cannot get along without it. Fruitless ones are eventually pruned off and never missed as new ones are grafted in.
Wow! . . . I doubt we'd see such an overt declaration of intent today!
Nevertheless . . . this should be posted above the reception desk at WT Headquarters as their "mission statement" . . . it's the closest thing to "the truth" I've ever heard from them.
