How to remove a bad Elder or GB member

by Elsewhere 4 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  I was posting on another thread and quoted the following scripture... then I noticed something toward the end...

  *** 1 Timothy 3:1-7 ***
  3 That statement is faithful. If any man is reaching out for an office of overseer, he is desirous of a fine work. 2 The overseer should therefore be irreprehensible, a husband of one wife, moderate in habits, sound in mind, orderly, hospitable, qualified to teach, 3 not a drunken brawler, not a smiter, but reasonable, not belligerent, not a lover of money, 4 a man presiding over his own household in a fine manner, having children in subjection with all seriousness; 5 (if indeed any man does not know how to preside over his own household, how will he take care of God's congregation?) 6 not a newly converted man, for fear that he might get puffed up [with pride] and fall into the judgment passed upon the Devil. 7 Moreover, he should also have a fine testimony from people on the outside, in order that he might not fall into reproach and a snare of the Devil.

  Therefore, according to the bible, an "overseer" cannot hold his position if "people on the outside" do not offer a "fine testimony".

  Last I checked... we are "people on the outside".
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  Hmmm

  When I was a young up-n-comer, I was told of a CO who went to counsel a sister privately about some matter or other. She accused him of raping her, though she supposedly had a history of lying or sumthin. The moral of the story was that even though they were pretty sure the CO was innocent, and the sister eventually confessed to making it up, this poor brother had to step down because he was no longer above reproach. It was a story, perhaps completely made up, to impress upon us young brothers not to even get into situations where our honor could be called into question.

  However, the society has a long and varied history of NOT holding themselves up to their own standards. The bottom line is that any accusations against favored brothers--especially GB members--will be ignored, regardless of how much circumstantial evidence is presented or how much reproach it brings upon Jehovah's Great And Holy, Awe-Inspiring Name.

  How much easier to ignore such accusations if these 'people on the outside' are evil, slavering apostates or associate with them.

  Hmmm
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  plmkrzy

  Thats really funny Elsewhere but I don't think we qualify as people on the outside anymore. We're dead...remember. Oh,wait of course you don't remember, silly me we're're dead...duh.
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  blondie

  That's so true, plm. I was just thinking that and here you said it. Dead men tell no tales.
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  nancee park

  Since Dateline NBC, the numerous AP news reports etc and many TV documentaries around the globe, Ted Jarasc and his little body no longer are unreproached but full of it and from THE GENERAL PUBLIC at that.