I don't know about you but the preception given from the Circuit Overseers and men ranking higher was nobody was worth Salvation, only the members at Bethel who demonstrated they were at Jehovah's House like the Levites were Saved.
How often did you feel you and your family were not measuring up the their policy and we were or might "not be Saved" while the Governing Body were looked to as being the men who were assured their Salvation?
For decades I heard Company Men say "Once you think you are Saved you allowed Satan to enter in to your life!" So, according to those Company Men, never assume Jesus Christ has the power to forgive your sins the Jehovah's Witnesses bind up on earth and keep locked in their safes o earth! Jehovah said he would cast our sins so far away in the Ocean and wash our blood stained robes red, if we would obey him. The JW Leadership love to avoid these concepts and especially (John 3:16), it's not fair Jehovah would give Eternal Life to people who don't follow all the man-made rules!