At least ten hours each month...preaching

by MacHislopp 3 Replies latest jw friends

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  MacHislopp

  Hello everyone,

  I do hope that all its fine with you, and allow me to post

  an example for someone special:

  "w61 6/15 p. 373 § 20 Progressing Toward Maturity

  1. How can one show the proper mental attitude?

  20 Another way to progress toward maturity is to develop a proper

  mental attitude. Paul had the right attitude as expressed at

  Philippians 3:14, 15: “I am pursuing down toward the goal for

  the prize of the calling above and which God extends in Christ

  Jesus. Let us, then, as many of us as are mature, be of this

  mental attitude; and if you are mentally inclined otherwise in

  any respect, God will reveal the above attitude to you.”

  Can you honestly say that you are pursuing the goal of

  everlasting life? Or are you pursuing the things of the old-

  world society? (1 John 2:16) What is your immediate goal?

  To buy a new automobile, or to buy out opportunities to s

  erve Jehovah? (Eph. 5:16) To spend money on an expensive

  vacation, seeing the sights of the dying old world, or to become

  a vacation pioneer, locating new friends, yes, everlasting

  acquaintances to join with you in the New World society?

  To retire and settle down in a place where there is a ratio of

  one witness of Jehovah to less than one thousand of the population,

  or to serve where the need for Kingdom witnesses is really great?

  If you are really pursuing everlasting life, then your record of

  field ministry should indicate that.

  Do you spend at least ten hours each month preaching

  and teaching the Bible truth to others?

  Can you imagine Paul being contented with less than ten hours a

  month even when he found it necessary to work full time making tents?

  What do you suppose he was doing on weekends, evenings?

  Studying God’s Word, doing God’s work, or attending a contest

  between the gladiators in the local coliseum, saying he had

  no time for the ministry?—Acts 18:3, 4.

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  NB article written nearly 62 years ago !

  
  

  
  

  Greeting to all the older ones and the younger ones

  
  

  
  

  JC Mac Hislopp
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  Diogenesister

  Wow, I'm really feeling my age because I really assumed that was a recent article 🤣

  I must admit the bit about being too busy to go out in the Ministry due to a prior engagement with a Gladiator down the old Coliseum,,l made me chuckle...🤣
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  NotFormer

  Pardon the anachronisms: neither the Colosseum nor weekends* were a thing in Paul's time.

  *It's nuanced: the two day weekend during the seven day week that would have been familiar to JWs in 1961 didn't yet exist.

  1961? Millions then living are now dead! Note the urgency about the New World Society.

  Interesting side note: New World Supermarkets were a chain in Australia in the 1960s. Coincidence? I think not!
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  was a new boy

  Yes, 'the New World society' wanted total control of it's members, using Guilt and spiritual pressure.

  In the 60's Pop would come home for a weekend after being on the road for 2-3 weeks straight; dodging potholes and State Troopers at the same time on I-80. (never got a ticket though)

  We'd come home from the Thursday night meeting, and surprise, he'd be at the kitchen table with 2 sets of log books on the kitchen table.

  The first words out of Mum's mouth, 'You didn't get your time in for the month! The anxiety that that caused in me from this stupid religion. Will he live or will he die? I thought, 'This is so Crazy'!