I have attached a letter that I am thinking of giving to my wife who is a witness, she wasn't going to the meetings for 8 months and showed interest in exploring other avenues of spirituallity (Christian). Without getting into too much detail she was disfellowshiped for seeing me. She was told by the elders that she had no grounds for devorce at the time and that she had to go back to her abusive husband. I am feeling very alone and am searching, desperatly for a way to tell her that her going to the meetings is driving a wedge between us. I realize that her family is involved and not going back to the organization means possibly never talking to them again. Any assistance in this will be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
I asked you before if you could explain why the witness organization doesn?t celebrate birthdays. You explained that there were two examples of birthdays in the Bible and they both had negative endings so that is why. Using that same logic I want to ask another question, why do witnesses practice disfellowshiping? I already know what they tell you but I would like to tell you that I only see one example of a person being told to leave a place of worship and there family told never speak and to disown them. Yes there are rules set out in the new testament that describe why one would choose to not associate with someone else but only the one scripture where it is actually felt as necessary to actually do it. The ones doing the shunning in the scripture that I read are the sagacies and pharmacies. If we are to use the same logic as the birthday scenario then there must be other examples of someone being disfellowshiped because obviously the example doesn?t fit with the living according to biblical standards if we can?t celebrate birthday?s because there are negative examples of birthdays given in the Bible then aren?t we bound by the same rules when we look at disfellowshiping.