i remember there was a brother in my congregation while i was in who would comment at all meetings but if asked to pray at a meeting or meeting for service he would always politely refuse.
i always found it odd, i assumed as a young bro, that a bro was kind of obligated to pray if asked.
knowing what i know now, it could have been a guilty conscience or maybe he just wanted to be lowkey.
Possible reasons:
1: Guilty Conscience (like you said)
2: Shy (kind of like you said)
3: Classified as a 'Sexual Predator' by the body of elders (such ones usually aren't allowed privileges beyond preaching per instructions from headquarters)
4: He Knows TTATT
it's great that the following is officially mentioned in the royal commission's report:.
when asked if the governing body members saw themselves as ‘jehovah god’s spokespeople on earth’, mr geoffrey jackson answered that it ‘would seem to be quite presumptuous to say that we are the only spokesperson that god is using’.
mr jackson’s response seems to be inconsistent with the documentary evidence before the royal commission, which shows that jehovah’s witnesses believe that the governing body is the ‘channel’ by which jehovah’s ‘will’ is communicated to them..
He said it would "seem to be" presumptuous, not that he thought it was.
Double talk = Theocratic warfare
here is the website for the software used by some halls to show related visuals onscreen at meetings.. http://cv8.org.uk/soundbox/.
at the bottom of the page are links to various other software designed by individual jws..
Here is the website for the software used by some halls to show related visuals onscreen at meetings.
At the bottom of the page are links to various other software designed by individual JWs.
anyone reading [or did read] the bible without someone else telling you what it meant?.
would you be leaning towards the jws or baptists or lutherans or what?.
just asking.
I would see that they've all got it wrong in various areas, with JWs faults being end time speculation, authoritarian leadership, stifling of exercise of conscience, the degree of disfellowshipping, legalism, and first and foremost: the nonexistent hope of a paradise earth.
at mine the conductor was somewhat awkward and minimal and there were nervous chuckles from the audience.
two people, including an elder, gave reasonable comments that it's okay as long as it's not extreme styles, etc.
but then another one of the elders commented that nothing has changed and they still aren't proper locally.
At mine the conductor was somewhat awkward and minimal and there were nervous chuckles from the audience. Two people, including an elder, gave reasonable comments that it's okay as long as it's not extreme styles, etc. But then another one of the elders commented that nothing has changed and they still aren't proper locally.
How about you?
starting this week the midweek has visual aids throughout the meeting such as sing along lyrics that scroll smoothly, images from the publications being used and the year text displayed in between.
does anybody have the files that were used or have they been leaked?.
Starting this week the midweek has visual aids throughout the meeting such as sing along lyrics that scroll smoothly, images from the publications being used and the year text displayed in between. Does anybody have the files that were used or have they been leaked?
i need maybe 2-5 dozen copies of any edition of the watchtower or awake!
magazines to distribute to family, friends, and neighbors.
any reasonable condition.
First: Why?
Second: Just go to a Kingdom Hall during a meeting and discreetly take what they've got.
jesus told this story to some who had great confidence in their own righteousness and scorned everyone else: “two men went to the temple to pray.
one was a pharisee, and the other was a despised tax collector.
the pharisee stood by himself and prayed this prayer: ‘i thank you, god, that i am not like other people—cheaters, sinners, adulterers.
From one Christian to another, great post, amen to all of it. I despise the term "true Christian", when used improperly by Jehovah's Witnesses.
1) do your studies or training in the group seem to be endless?.
2) did you have to give up things that you liked doing in order to be accepted into the group?
music, places you used to go, clothes, family life, celebrations, etc.).
Thank you. Great list. Do you have a link?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nmyoqiidqo&sns=em
Curse youuuuu!!!!
But I must listen to it again. Its so addictive.
