so with NO LOCAL NEEDS PARTS , what do they do?

?me?

if they are going to replace the local needs with feel good interviews of our "friends". what are they going to do for marking talks? now we will not know that a situation "has been handled" by the elders. also the congregation will not be warned of the young ones running, teens texting, young adults drinking and going to clubs.

our hall has barely had a local needs part anyway in a number of years. but they were always fun to hear and try to figure out who they were talking about.

on that note, the service meeting has been horribly unbareable to attend especially since they added the 3rd meeting to the night. and put the schedule in the OKM. super basic material, and our elders and MS body is pretty much the most drab group of guys (no old guys, though) you will ever find. plus we have a few that english is not their primary language.

atleast now no one thinks twice if i am "looking up all the info on my phone", or maybe i am browsing twitter, IG, Facebook, or following the game on my phone. boy meeting have actually got easier to go to.

JustVisting

@?me?-around these parts the offending party's dfing or reproof is announced, then a few weeks later the "reason" for the discipline is covered in the local needs part. I doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out the sin that was commited.

millie210

Ok, going to stick my neck out here and say that I dont think there will be an "interview with the friends" part added to the Service Meeting.

I think that was a rumor that continues to be perpetuated by a very few.

But that isnt the only reason I doubt it....

When you think about it, Jws have been moving furthur away from personal expression in every way.

What you say in service is supposed to follow the outline in the KM.

Comments at meetings are supposed to stick with the text of the material being covered.

Experiences given at assemblies are rehearsed over and over ahead of time.

All public talks are to follow outlines. Really big deal talks are manuscripts and are read. (Special talk in the spring; assembly parts)

So why on earth would the direction be to turn people loose with an open mike?

It wouldnt be. They would NEVER allow that.

the girl next door

Agreed

hoser

They would ask someone like me to do a testimonial and I would tell them the reason I got baptized was because I was told in the 1980's that the generation of 1914 was getting old and that I would die at Armageddon soon if I wasn't baptized.

stuckinarut2

I agree with Millie....

sparrowdown

What, no more "Name that Sin" parts?

How else will the bros' know who to snigger and gossip about?

Well at least they are replacing it with a nice "look at me, I'm a better witness than you" part.

AlwaysBusy

If there is a 'testimonial' at the weekly meeting, it will be rehearsed. There isn't an Elder alive that would let anyone talk on stage without scripting what that person will say. And he/she won't be one of the peons, he/she will be a pioneer/ms/elder/elderette. No need to worry if something has been handled by the elders or not....I personally believe they derive much glee in marking and df'ing so I am sure there will be a new way to let the folks know that someone is to be marked or shunned.

Anyway, take care.

sir82

So far, no one has substantiated that rumor.

It is hard to believe they'd drop "Local Needs". When else do the elders get a chance to directly scold the congregation?

We got a doozy this week - "you brothers aren't taking your assignments seriously enough! Huff Gruff yargle bargle!"

BluesBrother

As far as I know, from inside sources, this rumour was not substantiated at the AGM ..I was told it was from "an apostate source, along with a 10 hour pioneer arrangement"

Mind you, back in the day , our old P/O used to play fast and loose with the Service Meeting programme and he sometimes substituted a local item that he called "Know Your Brother" - interviewing ones about their past life and how they came to be where they were. It was good, it was surprising the things that older ones had done.......Nowadays , with the stricter control it would not be allowed.

so with NO LOCAL NEEDS PARTS , what do they do?

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