It looks like they are cracking the whip and weeding out the undesirables whether it be elder or inactive ones.
After Reading Sir82's Posts Do You Think The Elders Will Go After Faders?
by minimus 23 Replies latest jw friends
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leavingwt
Nope.
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OnTheWayOut
"Go after faders." No, not in the sense that fading is their only "sin." They still will have some semblance of due process where judicial committees have to be formed for listed violations of Watchtower rules.
Fading is not among the violations because it is difficult to draw the line between someone who is just absent a lot and someone who is totally inactive.
Now, if a fader is known to break the rules, I am pretty sure that most congs. would kick the fader out just to clear up their publisher cards.
Nothing has changed. This has been the case for quite a long time.
It seems that what Sir82 posted was more about mishandling situations within the active members of the cong. and within judicial committees.
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wha happened?
old story. To most elders, pubs out of sight are out of mind
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cantleave
Elders are too lazy!
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Vidiot
Not so much the Elders, per se.
The WTS in general, though?
Sure (the brazen ones, at least).
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minimus
I see the elders at my mom's house every so often and they are very nice, so far.
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wha happened?
theyhave enough to chew on with the active pubs. They are obviously grooming the current bunch with much more narrow minded rules coming down the pipeline. Except for an occasional elder with a wild hair uyp his butt, inactive ones are mainly shunned.
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cedars
Apart from the occasional mention at elder's meetings around memorial time, inactive ones are "out of sight, out of mind" as far as most elders are concerned. Only direct instructions from HQ to hunt them down would change that.
Cedars
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darth frosty
This has been my opinion of elders for awhile...They are scrapping the bottom of the barrel to get brothers to serve.
I have heard of brothers being appointed who back in my day would not qualify as an MS.
These brothers IMO are too weak to really pursue faders. They may be gung ho and bolstered by some bullshit elder school rah-rah but when they come back to life and the struggle of contacting people and the slow realization that the problem of faders is bigger than them, they will fall back into their dismissive ways.