by jean-luc picard 8 Replies latest jw friends
First of all , may I wish you all a happy new year.
In response to obaracs earlier thread, I think it would be amusing to list all the DC themes that we can remember.
It would be interesting to compile them in Excel and amusing to see the irony in them over the decades.
So what themes do you recall, and from what year?
"Jesus Chose Us as the FDS , but we do not know it yet" 1919
Sorry. Should have done some research first
http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/jw/friends/176420/1/Convention-Themes
Thanks JWS.
Finally, you realize that its all a bit hollow! Why did we go?
"What has Jesus been up to ?" 2014
"Divine Patience..." 2175
Obey the Goverming Body!
Obey the G.B is actually the theme of every D.C , so you rightly do not put a year Punky !
Happy New Year to you too. Along the same line of thought as JWS had originally posted, I wondered if there was some kind of pattern leading up to the 1975 'expectation'.
1970 - Men of Goodwill
1971 - Divine Name
1972 - Divine Rulership
1973 - Divine Victory
1974 - Divine Purpose
1975 - Divine Sovereignty
1976 - Sacred Service (after the Great disappointment )
1977 - Joyful Workers
1978 - Victorious Faith
1979 - Living Hope
1980 - Divine Love
1981 - Kingdom Loyalty (a period of anticipation. Perhaps the Adam - Eve creation gap ?)
1982 - Kingdom Truth
1983 - Kingdom Unity
1984 - Kingdom Increase
1985 - Integrity Keepers (for many, the 'What the hell went wrong period' )
1986 - Divine Peace
1987 - Trust in Jehovah
and so on
In the list of themes God's "name" appears only once.
"God" appears 13 times.
"Divine" appears 10 times.
It appears they don't take their God's "personal name" too seriously.
