Journeyman,
Not a truer word spoken!
Whatever disaster now follows is entirely of their own making, and their own stupid fault.
They are running out of people to do their stuff.
by liam 52 Replies latest watchtower bible
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joe134cd
Journeyman- yes I agree it's a little too late to the game. I see in these other churches they try to create a social scene, or an environment, for it youth. Watchtower had said not our responsibility, but step out of line and we'll shun you got it.
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hoser
Journeyman
I’m one of those and know many others.
I did make ministerial servant but was not treated that well by others.
My wife was/is soft shunned for not(at the time) having a large enough number on her field service report.
Somewhere in my early 30’s I gave up on reaching out and started putting together a retirement package.
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Beth Sarim
Hoser:
Good for you.
Because you know what,,, they wont do that for you.
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ExBethelitenowPIMA
Journeyman- yes I agree it's a little too late to the game. I see in these other churches they try to create a social scene, or an environment, for it youth. Watchtower had said not our responsibility, but step out of line and we'll shun you got it.
The Borg are desperate that’s why they Keep on lowering age for things. You can be an elder at 20 and a CO at 23 for heaven’s sake.
they need to do something more than this to stop the bleeding of young people.
it’s hilarious thinking about elders meetings where the body spends 45 mins talking about something so trivial. When the stuff the young people are really getting upto is totally unknown to the elders.
this is really shown so well in the TV show everyone else burns. One teenage girl talks about all the normal teenage stuff the young ones get upto, kissing feeling each other up and far more in some cases.
the elders have absolutely no idea what goes on.
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no-zombie
As I have said for years ... demographics is everything ... absolutely EVERYTHING. Whole nations, whole empires have disappeared due to inevitable reality of demographic forces.
So when there is no young people left in a congregation, you can't magically create them, no matter what you now do or promise. Why ... because you have to give birth to them and grow them, as a part of a 20 year investment ... and they should want to stay.
Which of course means the Governing Body has killed its own future and the future of the Organization by making the religion so fucking boring, everyone wants to get out as soon as they can. Even the so-called 10 year plan, is now far too late to have any impact upon our rapidly aging religion.
The bus for meaningful change, left the station a long time ago.
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truthlover123
Since they were tacking a scripture from Timothy onto the gathering of those 18-21 as newbie elder and ms, the qualifications state they should be married in that scripture- and in 2014 put it in a confidential to elders that stated one of the requirements was that his wife and any children are good examples. So the question is, are they asking them to marry as well? Other requirements that seemed to be overlooked in this memo to the congregation is he is to be of sufficient age, life experienced, his marriage is scriptural. There are many more factors in the 2014 guidelines that now seem to be thrown out of the window.
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moomanchu
This will definitely backfire on them. I'm just thinking about my wisdom and decisions when I was 21. Better lawyer up Watchtower, your legal troubles are just beginning.
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Ugot2bekiddingme1
I look at my life, I have A PHD and couple other Degrees. I have experience as a leader( military training) you would think with what I can do and my experience, WT would make me an elder?? Nope, some 20 year old yes man.
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greenhornet
Watchtower is really "hiring" DEI people.