Wally, a Youtuber from JW Thoughts highlighted something that was said by Kenneth Cook Jnr in the Annual Meeting. He thinks it may be removed before they publish the AGM. I doubt we would see it in writing either.
Part of Kenneth's talk was about the changes regarding disfellowshipping and the clip from JW Thoughts Youtube shows him saying -
Well throughout the scriptures we see Jehovah's warm appeal to wrongdoers, urging them to repent At Zech 1:3 we read that Jehovah told his prophet "say to them this is what Jehovah of Armies says 'return to me declares Jehovah of armies and I will return to you'"
But does our increased understanding of Jehovah's mercy here mean that his righteous and just standards have somehow been changed? So to answer a question from earlier, James 1:17 tells us that Jehovah does not vary or change and quoting Jehovah himself, Malachi 3:6 says "I am Jehovah, I do not change."
So then, Jehovah does not change and his standards as to what is right or wrong has not changed. That is why recent adjustments to our view of God's mercy is just that - adjustments to our view for understanding. Have you been able to adjust? And because Jesus doesn't change, he still has the same desire to drive out what is bad.
Since sin is still on the earth, the Elders will continue to remove unrepentant ones from the congregation...
Wally then comments on the highlighted remark stating -
So now we have a Governing Body member admitting that Jehovah has his standards and those are set, that his mindset, those are just set in stone and the adjustments that the GB make are, to their viewpoint, just that, adjustments to their viewpoint.
He is explicitly saying that Jehovah isn't talking to the GB to make rules, Jehovah isn't leading the organization. When adjustments are made he is not saying that Jehovah is making the adjustment because Jehovah's standards are already set. He is saying that it is the GB just deciding and in my memory, I know they've talked about being fallible or getting things wrong but I don't remember them outright looking Jehovah's Witnesses in the eyeballs saying "when we make adjustments, it's just us making stuff up. God already has his standards, we don't really know what they are but (some) we just do the best we can.
It was a very strange thing for him to say. I'm not entirely sure he knew exactly the implication of what he was getting at but I found it absolutely amazing because normally we would hear something like, 'oh no, we're fallible but you've just got to trust us because God is using us' Well now you're making it sound like God wasn't using you because if God had his standard already set and your adjustments are just you changing your mind than where is the correlation that God or Jesus is actually using the organization.