Excerpts From My "Pay Attention" Elder's Book

by minimus 21 Replies latest jw friends

  • Pepper
    Pepper

    That is very brother is very commendable we consider it all joy to have as much information as we can from this wonderful book that Jah has provided the elders to distort our own thinking under stressful situations. So continue in like manor pringing this into the light of reason, so that we may be fully ready to put up the hard fight for the faith.

    There is a movie you must see, its called "Equilibrium" it taste like being a Jehovah's Witness smells like being a Jehovah's witness's and looks like being a Jehovah's Witness's, for a rip roaring good time see this movie you can rent it on DVD or VCR it has a under tone that is uncany in its semblance of being a Witness.

    Pepper

  • Gopher
    Gopher
    "Do not try to get the brothers to engage in the field service by exerting undue pressure on them. However, encouragement is proper.".......

    Well, if the publishers looked at the EXAMPLE of many of the elders, they'd be discouraged from doing very much field service at all!! (Or is that field ministry -- I'm not up on the latest lingo...) It's often a case of "do as I say and not as I do" when elders "encourage" others to have a large share in the ministry.

    "Help the brothers to appreciate that participation in proclaiming the good news is a sacred duty, a requirement on which our life depends"........

    Between-the-lines reading: Help the peons (or "rank and file") appreciate that participation in the book-selling activity is a duty, a requirement on which our publishing company depends....

  • Francois
    Francois

    Pepper, if I may make bold to ask, wot happened to your head? I dun tole you not to get up on dem ladders on account of you fall off of dem, you go boom and hurt yoursef.

    Wot de story?

    Hoping you're OK,
    francois

  • minimus
    minimus

    Elders preaching??? No! Elders are to ride around and make sure everyone's got enough territory. That's why I'm glad I never had to be Service Overseer.

  • minimus
    minimus

    One common statement that's been made is,"There's NOTHING secret about this book. Everything written in the book is something that you can find in a Watchtower."........ LIARS!!!!

  • minimus
    minimus

    Regarding adultery, the Pay Attention book states:" The innocent mate should be informed that resuming sexual relations with the adulterous mate would indicate forgiveness and would therefore cancel the Scriptural ground for divorce. Forgiveness of adultery involves a willingness on the part of the innocent mate to resume sexual relations with the adulterous mate within a reasonable period of time......By withholding the marriage due, the non-adulterous mate would be indicating that no forgiveness has been extended.....If the guilty one unilaterally obtains a divorce over the objection of the innocent mate, this does not free the guilty one to remarry. If he marries someone else while the innocent mate is still willing to forgive his adultery and resume their marital arrangement, his is an adulterous marriage."....pages 134 and 135.

  • BluesBrother
    BluesBrother

    I dunno how you got to keep your book . Even hear in backward small town , the dozy elders made darn sure that I gave it back , after I prudently photo copied some pages about comittees and stuff

    In those days I did not know that it was on the net , and would not have used "Those sites" - times change eh?

    Incidentally, if anyone should doubt that your excerpts are true, take my word that they sound familiar to this ex elder.

  • minimus
    minimus

    I really think that the elders were thinking I was just going to take a sabbitical and so never pushed the book retrieval. The PO is not one that gets overly concerned with such things. (I still have the key to the Hall and the file, believe it or not). However, i recently was asked about the book by 1 elder who said the new CO might ask about it. I told him I had no idea where it was. (I just recently found it). And BB, some might doubt the validity of the book being mine, but I plan on forwarding it soon to another party on this board that will be able to use it for effective purposes.

  • IslandWoman
    IslandWoman

    Minimus,

    Is the book you are quoting from on the net?

    IW

  • 95stormfront
    95stormfront

    Did AlanF ever get the one he bought off Ebay?

    He paid a grip for that book.

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