I have left about a year back - but not one soul at the hall knows the reasons why.Yet, when my Mom died last summer, her funeral was boycotted by the entire witness community, less one elder that I personally invited to come. It was the most painful ostacism I can imagine. Between my wife, my dead inactive mother, and I, we had over 165 years of association with this congregation, none of us out of good standing officially. That is the nature of the 'conditional love' these people have.
This must have qualified as the greatest shunning of all time for one who was never DA'd, DF'd or ever even counseled. It is a 'shunning' based on just gossip!!! And guess who started that gossip? Must of been those wonderful 'spirit appointed men of God' the elders. Whodathunk that?
Jeff