by minimus 9 Replies latest jw friends
He's a very good man and recognizes his limitations. He still dislikes field service and considers himself inferior to the other elders. He has almost no contact with his disfellowshipped older son. He's always discouraged.
I wonder how long he will last this time.
Do the other elders know how he is, sounds very 'negative.' But is the elder body, CO, really desperate? How many elders are there in that Cong ?
I think there's 6 there. He gets "discouraged" rather easily.
My understanding is that very few JW's want to be elders these days, and they try to press anyone they can into eldership. i.e., they're desperate. To me, the fact that this young man has self-doubt means he actually may be one of the better elders.
Self doubt, inferiority and unworthiness are the trademark traits of a JW.
From your description, Min, I wonder if he is not a potential suicide.
NN, I doubt that but he never thinks he does enough and by JW standards, he's right!
The WT likes keeping the members running on that treadmill, never doing enough to reach any sort of goal. You can always do more.
It could be a good sign that he is aware he does not measure up, rather than hypocritically pretend.
None of us do measure up against a perfect standard or perfect God.
He would just love coming to know about IMPUTED righteousness, where anyone can be granted a right standing with God as a "free gift" that cannot be earned, deserved or paid for.
What if you were to ask him to mark every occurrence of the words righteous, righteousness, justification and justify in Paul's letters? Possibly you could then ask him to explain how righteousness is attained according to Paul.
In time you could ask him to explain "law vs grace" and "faith vs works" according to Paul.
That just could be his ticket out of the apostate Watchtower organisation.
As was said, it's a never ending treadmill.
