Family Worship Night percentages (page 2)

rebel8

A lot of single people with no kids go visit other people for 'family' worship night. . . I think it's more popular among single people who want an excuse to go hit on each other than it is among married people with children.

Wow. That's REALLY sad.

lilbluekitty

I had left the org (the first time) by the time that whole thing started. I went back to live with my family for awhile while my husband and I were separated and I was starting to come back to being a JW for awhile, and at first, they really got into it every week but it was really just meeting prep, not an actual study. Later on we'd just watch TV but read the text first, that was it. For little while I was at my mom's and she was "studying" one of the brochures with me, I forget which one but it's for people who have never read the Bible before and is ridiculously easy and therefore boring. Basically she and I took turns reading pages, not much else.

When I finally reconciled with my husband and moved back here, I tried just doing the weekly Bible reading with him but it didn't pan out as it was pretty boring and he normally reads the New Testament more (that's while I was still in.) Now that I'm out and learning to be a Christian, we basically discuss Bible topics every day, not because we have to but because we actually want to and enjoy it. Ahhh...much better!

blondie

I was a single person and we got together to study for the WT meeting but we had appropriate (per the elders) chaperones. I'm sure it was a way to get to know each other perhaps to date or not. It was more a way to have a little social life since the married jws rarely if ever invited us over. So if you couldn't socialize with single people and the married people would not include you, I guess you could only stay home alone. Perhaps the wives thought the single sisters were after their husbands. This pretty much ended in the 80's with the apostasy scare.

JW GoneBad

JRK: I would guess it is less than 50%

I would say you are right on!

Its' going to be an uphill battle for the WTBTS to turn the bad publicity of the 2008 U.S. Religious Landscape Survey around that showed 63% of JW children leave the faith when they become adults. Its' going to take more than 'Family Worship Night' to keep the youth in the 'Truth'.

JW youth know that WTBTS has nothing to offer them but LIES, PUBLIC REPROOF, DISFELLOWSHIPPING, SHUNNING, HUMILIATION, SHAME and the like.

OUTLAW

Hard Core..20%MAX..

........................;-)...OUTLAW

Black Sheep

I may need to do the same......trouble right now is she will only study the wt stuff........gag

That is what you want her to do.

You need to do some homework so that you have the skills to nudge that study in the right direction without you putting the Apostate hat on.

AvocadoJake

Family Study Night, less than thirty percent, the concept that a CO would remove them for not, is wrong or misleading.

Using the same reasoning, we can assume elders are Shepherding The Flock, calling the sick ones, the depressed ones, "NOT!"

We can assume the Field Cirus ministry is very productive and no time is spent malingering to Jehovah, because the CO would remove them or take back the Time Slips and reduce them, to their actual amount of time spent talking.

Missing Meetings does not get elders removed, we have elders who work in other states and don't get removed. I get angry at some of the bullshit people post here. Our own inductive experiences should tell us what is going on now, they are afraid to lose elders, nobody want's this no-pay position.

What do you think?

bats in the belfry

Family Worship Night, huh?

My wife is my family. And I worship her that night extra much. She gives praise to God repeatedly.

AvocadoJake

The Family Worship Night, is most likely a flop, another night to watch the Tele. Think back of all the wonderful studies with your parents you had as a child and add all the new distractions of today's life.

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