@ Finkelstein and Splash...
I call it "being in a state of perpetual punishment"...
An incident was reported to me at a cong near me.
by poopie 13 Replies latest jw friends
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steve2
There's nothing at all new here. There never was a time when the disfellowshipped person merely handed in a letter requesting reinstatement and it happened. Never. So the OP is very puzzling indeed.
From another vantage, though, I've seen threads on this forum in which posters have taken the opposite view: castigating elders for being too willing to reinstate a disfellowshipped marriage mate who committed adultery to provide a basis for divorce and remarriage.
So, on one hand, elders are castigated for requiring a disfellowshipped person to sit it out whilst their behaviour is observed by elders. But on the other hand, being castigated for readiness to reinstate someone who deliberately committed adultery as a basis for dissolving the marriage.
Judged either way.
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krejames
What Steve2 said 👍 -
Tenacious
"Power wears out those who don't have it."
The only power elders have is the one we give them.