Can someone do me a huge favor and scan them in here? Or type them up if you're in a particularly helpful mood :) They have the new questions asked to someone hoping to become a publisher. I need them to prove something to someone. Thanks!
Page 79 and 80 of the new OM book.
by JohnZogby 4 Replies latest jw friends
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NeonMadman
MEETING THE REQUIREMENTS
Before inviting a person to accompany you in the fieldministry for the first time and before you suggest that he report any field service to the congregation, there are certain qualifications he should meet. When a person accompanies us in the field ministry, he identifies himself publicly with the congregation of Jehovah's people, so it is understood that he has already brought his life into harmony with Jehovah's righteous standards and can be an unbaptized publisher in the congregation.
Very likely, as you study with a person and discuss Bible principles with him, you will become aware of his circumstances. You may observe that he is living in harmony with the information he has learned from studying the Bible. But there are some aspects of the student's life that the elders will want to discuss with him and you together before you invite him to accompany you in the field service and to share in publicly witnessing to others.
The presiding overseer will arrange to have two elders (one being a member of the Congregation Service Committee) discuss this matter with you and the Bible student. They will consider the following points:
- Do the person's expressions show that he believes that the Bible is the inspired Word of God? (2 Tim. 3:16)
- Does he know and believe the basic teachings of the Scriptures so that when asked questions, he will answer in harmony with the Bible and not according to false religious teachings or his own ideas? (Matt. 7:21-23; 2 Tim. 2:15)
- Is he heeding the Bible?s command to associate with Jehovah's people at congregation meetings if he physically and circumstantially can? (Ps. 122:1; Heb. 10: 24, 25)
- Does he know what the Bible teaches about fornication, adultery, polygamy, and homosexuality, and is he living in harmony with such teachings? If the person is living with one of the opposite sex, are they properly married? (Matt. 19:9; 1 Cor. 6:9, 10; 1 Tim. 3:2, 12; Heb 13:4)
- Does he heed the Bible's prohibition of drunkenness? (Eph. 5:18; 1 Pet. 4:3, 4) Is he free from all nonmedical use of addictive or mind-altering natural or synthetic substances? (2 Cor. 7:1)
- Does he see the value of avoiding unwholesome association? (1 Cor. 15:33)
- Has he definitely broken off membership in all false religious organizations with which he may have been affiliated, and has he ceased attending their meetings and supporting or sharing in their activities? (2 Cor. 6: 14-18; Rev. 18:4)
- Is he free from all involvement in the political affairs of the world? (John 6:15; 15:19; Jas. 1:27)
- D oes he believe and live in harmony with what the Bible says at Isaiah 2:4 about the affairs of the nations?
- Does he really want to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses? (Ps. 110:3)
If the elders are not sure how the student feels about some of these matters, they should invite him to look up the scriptures here cited and comment on them in order to see the significance of what they say. It is important that he understand that those who share with Jehovah's Witnesses in their preaching activity must be leading a life that harmonizes with these Scriptural requirements. His expressions will help the elders determine whether he knows what is expected of him and whether he is qualified to a reasonable degree to begin participating in the field ministry.
If he is qualified, the elders can warmly welcome the individual as one who desires to become an active associate of Jehovah's Witnesses. (Rom. 15:7) He should be encouraged to begin sharing in the field ministry as soon as possible and to turn in a field service report at the end of the month. The elders can explain that when a Bible student qualifies as an un-baptized publisher and reports field service for the first time, a
Congregation's Publisher Record card is made out in his name and included in the congregation file. They can assure him that all the elders take an interest in the field service reports that are turned in each month.
Getting better acquainted with the new publisher and showing a personal interest in what he has accomplished can have a fine influence on the individual. It may move him to make even greater efforts to serve Jehovah and to turn in field service reports regularly each month..Phil. 2:4; Heb. 13:2.
Once the elders determine that the Bible student qualifies to engage in the field ministry, he is eligible to receive his own copy of
Organized to Do Jehovah's Will . After he reports field service for the first time, a brief announcement should be made to the congregation that he is a new unbaptized publisher.
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Food for thought.- Do the person's expressions show that he believes that the entire Bible is the inspired Word of God? (2 Tim. 3:16)
- Is he heeding the Bible?s command to associate with Jehovah's people at congregation meetings if he physically and circumstantially can? (Ps. 122:1; Heb. 10: 24, 25)
- Does he know the differance between a command and a exhortation?
- Does he heed the Bible's prohibition of drunkenness? (Eph. 5:18; 1 Pet. 4:3, 4, Prov. 31: 6 and 7)
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lawrence
So... based on these 2 questions to achieve reverential [to whom] status as a J.W. publisher, he/she [they say "He"] must coincide with the following:
- Is he free from all involvement in the political affairs of the world? (John 6:15; 15:19; Jas. 1:27)
- D oes he believe and live in harmony with what the Bible says at Isaiah 2:4 about the affairs of the nations?
Guess, the G.B. is unqualified to go out in Field Service based on their U.N. involvement, as well as holding stocks and profiting like Judas in companies that make plowshares into swords. Lying and thieving bastards - raise the bar high for all, but selves. Hypocrits, the hell you deny awaits you!
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Honesty
Guess, the G.B. is unqualified to go out in Field Service based on their U.N. involvement, as well as holding stocks and profiting like Judas in companies that make plowshares into swords. Lying and thieving bastards - raise the bar high for all, but selves. Hypocrits, the hell you deny awaits you!
They are denied entrance into the Kingdom of God and deny others entrance with their apostate doctrines.
Well, Ted and Danny Boy if you don't repent just think of all the fun you are going to have with all the JW's you have deceived as you share eternal separation from God's love with them in the hell you deny so adamantly.