Final Thoughts After 15 Hours of the 2025 Assembly
After dedicating 15 hours to the 2025 assembly, I walked away with a heavy sense of spiritual emptiness. The only part that managed to stir anything within me was a single video on day one titled “What Does Jesus See in You?”—a piece with sentimental appeal, but still surface-level at best.
The central three-part presentation on Jesus’ early ministry was, frankly, deeply disappointing. Rather than offering deep scriptural insight or spiritual nourishment, it devolved into what felt like an extended advertisement for the NWT Bible. It was less about Christ and more about institutional self-congratulation.
Each talk, though polished and rehearsed, repeated the same shallow themes—calls to be happy, to sacrifice, to obey—without ever touching the deeper realities of faith, struggle, or genuine transformation. Layered beneath it all was a nauseating level of praise for the Governing Body, treated almost with worshipful reverence, while Christ was effectively sidelined.
What was intended as spiritual food turned out to be nothing more than reheated, over-processed milk—nutritionally barren and spiritually unfulfilling. For a presentation so meticulously crafted, it was disturbingly devoid of substance, soul, or reality.
After 35 years of sincere devotion to this human-crafted rhetoric, I now see it for what it is: hollow words propping up a system that feeds on emotional sentiment rather than divine truth. This assembly offered nothing to meditate on, nothing to stir the heart or the mind. It was forgettable, uninspiring, and profoundly sad.
This is what happens when one follows the shallow teachings of men rather than the living words of Christ. I won’t be rewatching anything from it. And I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone seeking real spiritual light.