Well, only if they actually had the CO Visit last week..... otherwise..... hmmm.....
That's all folks!
DarK SpliveR
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10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO
by Absalom inis there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?
he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..
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Poignant Statistics Summary for Comment at This Sunday WT Study! (Aug. 3, 2014)
by SAHS inthe watchtower study to be considered this sunday, august 3, 2014 (using the magazine dated may 15, 2014), titled are you moving ahead with jehovahs organization?, in paragraph seven (on pages 27-28), talks about the number of people baptized in recent years:.
7 where do those making up the great crowd come from?
they are being brought together because of what jesus foretold as part of the sign of his presence.
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darkspilver
Personally I blame all that highfalutin college education - I mean all you gotta to be able to do is read, write and do basic sums, what more do you want to do after all?
So let's apply the KISS theory - Keep It Simple, Stupid!
They are told by Messrs Jackson et al. to 'not boast in numbers'? Why, because the numbers are decreasing!
Total baptized 2003-12: 2,707,710
Total baptized 1993-02: 3,149,153
That's a pure 14% decrease.Nothing complicated or controversial just 441,443 less people being baptized decade-on-decade. No death-rates, birth-rates, what-you-like-rates.
Just a simple 44,144 less people being baptized each year.
So, over a twenty year period there is now a consistent 848 less people being baptized each week.
That's a 121 less people being baptized each day.
Heck, that effectively means there is one less 'congregation' each and every day - yeah you could even say one congregation is disappearing each day!
Of course, it doesn't actually mean it's true.... LOL!
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Poignant Statistics Summary for Comment at This Sunday WT Study! (Aug. 3, 2014)
by SAHS inthe watchtower study to be considered this sunday, august 3, 2014 (using the magazine dated may 15, 2014), titled are you moving ahead with jehovahs organization?, in paragraph seven (on pages 27-28), talks about the number of people baptized in recent years:.
7 where do those making up the great crowd come from?
they are being brought together because of what jesus foretold as part of the sign of his presence.
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darkspilver
LOL!
6 days and all that maths! But still nobody has stated the obvious? I suppose that's what you call 'hiding in plain sight'!....
I'm going for a walk now... be back with more in an hour or so ;)
That's all folks!
DarK SpilveR
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10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO
by Absalom inis there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?
he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..
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darkspilver
Yes, sd-7, only 'inactive' people, NOT disfellowshipped or disassociated people.
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DarK SpilveR
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10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO
by Absalom inis there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?
he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..
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darkspilver
MissFit - maybe the rest of the visit is like that, but the 10 minute post-meeting meeting with E/MS isn't - sorry to burst your bubble - and that's what the OP was asking about...
The CO will probably spend all of 2 minutes explaining the governing body's request that all inactive people get called on during the week of the visit to invite them to the meeting on Sunday - he'll then probably exit the meeting and leave the CBE to divi up the inactives betwen the E/MS which takes a couple of minute, then that's it! It's all rather perfunctory
There will also probably be no follow-thru - ie no direct direction to encourage inactives to study, attend again etc.
That's all folks!
DarK SpilveR
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Why Are People Anti-Semitic?
by minimus ini seriously don't get it.. some people truly hate`jews.. and it's not just jews.... gays, christians, blacks, mexicans, etc.
are on the list.. intolerance is a terrible thing..
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darkspilver
Hey minimus have you read or heard about the 1903 "The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion"?
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DarK SpilveR
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Bible Highlights(this week) : What is the bitter water that an adulteress had to drink in Numbers 5:24?
by raymond frantz inin this week's bible highlights we read about the bizarre trial by ordeal that a woman had to undergo if she was under suspicion of adultery .in number 5:24 we read about this strange "bitter water" that she had to drink resulting if guildy to a sponteneous degeneration of her reproductive organs ,please read the rest of the article here for more clarification ,maybe you can use it this week during the bible highlights at the meeting.... what is the bitter water that a woman had to drink in numbers 5:24?.
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The actual question from the 15 April 1984 edition of the Watchtower on page 29 in the article "Respect Jehovah, Urges the Book of Numbers" is:
Q: What actually happened to a wife guilty of adultery? Numbers 5:11-31
A: No affliction was brought on by the water itself. But it was drunk before Jehovah, who knew whether the woman was guilty of adultery. If she was, he would make her belly swell and her thigh fall away. Evidently the thigh is used here euphemistically for the procreative organs. (Compare Genesis 46:26.) 'Fall away' suggests that these organs atrophied, making conception impossible. This would harmonize with the fact that if the woman was innocent her husband was to make her pregnant.That's all folks!
DarK SpilveR
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10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO
by Absalom inis there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?
he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..
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darkspilver
Oh, of course, not fitting in with what you expect it to be means that the meeting is all rather a bit of an anticlimax LOL!
That's all folks!
DarK SpilveR
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10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO
by Absalom inis there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?
he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..
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darkspilver
LOL!.... DATA-DOG did you get out of the wrong side of bed today?.... the meeting is just the CO handing over the cards of those who haven't reported for six or more continuous months to the CBE and asks that they (E/Ms) endeavour to contact each one to invite them to the Sunday meeting. It's all very quick and the CO will probably make a quick exit. NOTHING will be probably said about irregular reporters or those with very very very low hours, focus is purely on those inactive people. And no follow through, purely about attending the Sunday meeting that week.
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Dark SpilveR
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10 min meeting with all servants after the Tuesday meeting with CO
by Absalom inis there anyone who is currently appointed who can tell me what this 10 min meeting with the co was about?
he made the announcement that he wants to meet with all appointed men right after the meeting..
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darkspilver
Yes, that's right DwainBowman - it's about the number of inactive people you have in your congregation, that is those that haven't turned in a report form consecutively for six or more months.
He will ask you to make an effort to contact them ALL and invite them to his special talk on Sunday about being rescued from world distress.
He will probably also be keeping score between congregations - nothing like a bit of competition! - so it's likely that, for example, he'll tell you that the North Town Congregation had 8 inactive people and 7 came to the meeting on the Sunday!
Of course it also all depends on how many 'inactive' cards your congregation actually keeps ;) on file for the CO to see....
That's all folks!
DarK SpilveR