The worst thing that can happen to a boy with this type of responsibity is while it goes to his head, he begins to think that the obvious next step is for him to become an elder. The elders will probably give him public talks and bookstudy duties. After a few years of being a servant, people will start asking him why he is not an elder, and suddenly the monster has been created.
NEARLY 17 YEAR OLD BOY IS MINISTERIAL SERVANT
by minimus 43 Replies latest jw friends
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kenpodragon
I was appointed at age 17 and at 24 to be a elder
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jack2
good point orangefatcat.....just heard today (teen grapevine) that a kid arround that age in our congregation has been known to smoke marijuana. He's no MS, but he is the son of an elder......and I doubt that daddy knows.
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nicolaou
A friend of mine was appointed as an elder at just 19 after serving as a min' for about a year [2 C.O's visits].
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TheOldHippie
Well, orangefatcat, MS guys are not supposed to give you councel, they are supposed to take care of practical issues like literature, sound equipment, microphones, district maps etc.
I agree, though, that the pressure towards elderdom will start after a year or so.
Me? I was appointed a MS two years after my baptism, when I had been a drug addict for many years, and made elder a year after that. Considering one did not have an alder dad or did not even grow up within, that was rather quick too .....
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Threestars
My JW sister called me a while back to gripe about her goof-off inactive husband. She told me that their 17 year-old son was now her "spiritual head". This is patriarchal mind control in its most archaic form. Why don't these idiotic women wake up?
Edited by - threestars on 10 July 2002 2:54:56
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DazedAndConfused
I know of one man who was appointed an elder (I believe. But it could have been ms status) 6 months after he was baptised! To top that off the man hadn't even been out in service yet!!! He was one of the most arrogant men I have ever encountered with a position. He told one woman, during her judicial committee for adultery, that if his wife had done the same thing she would be out on her ear. A few years after that he was reproved and deleted as an elder because he was the one who had committed adultery. His wife never kicked him out. Then just over 2 years later he was reappointed as a elder, totally skipping over being an ms again. Unbelievable, when my father is fighting to become an elder, after being in for over 30 years because he doesn't conduct a bible study with my mother. One would think at 60 years old she has the study system down pat by now. haha
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ozziepost
Can you picture the Experiences section of the Assembly program? Now this 17 year old will be introduced as a Ministerial Servant. Whenever anyone is referred to in the Borg it's by their title...sorry, assignment.....and they say they're better than the clergy because they're not interested in titles? Yeah, right!
Ozzie
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minimus
Hi Dazed, What part of thw world did this take place in and was it recently?
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SYN
OMG. If someone younger than me had tried to counsel me, I would've sneered at them endlessly. HAHA! But then again, MSs don't do the whole "counseling" thing that often...probably this was just a way for the Elders to get him to do endless chores...he must be an expert in mowing ye olde Kingdom Hall Lawn, that guy.