AuntieJane

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  My wife is in the hospital

  by Bryan in

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  hello my dear friends:.

  i just wanted to let you know that my wife was admitted today to the hospital.

  as you know she is 32 weeks pregnant with our son and unfortuanely, is very low on amniotic fluid.

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  AuntieJane

  Prayers going up now.
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  I hope this memorial doesnt backfire ...........

  by fleaman uk in

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  well,ive decided to go tomorrow night after all.not to my local cong but another one in the city where i have a very good friend and a few distant family members.i dont agree with much of the orgs teachings or promotions,but i do believe in jesus and really just have a very,very powerful urge to pay my respects to him.. i have been telling my "worldly"girlfriend about the religion and naturally,she is quite interested as this was part of my life since an early age.. blow me down she really wants to come with me!so when she walks into the hall tomorrow and gets a very warm welcome it will possibly shock her,after some of the stranger stories i have told her about the faith(vague stories including no xmas,disfellowshipping,no after school activities etc).i have told her that the welcome she receives will be warm and imho genuine too.she is quite a spiritual person anyway and will enjoy the occasion.. my worry would be that she will enjoy it too much and go to a follow up.it is quite probable.she has never had anything to do with jw,s before, till going out with yours truly .. i,m interested in your comments?.

  thanks for listening.

  flea.

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  AuntieJane

  I hope to hear your review after attending, since you are obviously so set on going. Please let us know how it goes.
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  My story.....

  by jula71 in

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  2. friends

  i was born into the "truth", so it is pretty much to only life i have known.

  i have been studying the bible seriously since my teens, about 15+ years.

  then it hit me about 6 months ago, i?m not really studying the bible, but rather the wt publications.

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  AuntieJane

  Welcome, Hopefully you lean toward your exJW siblings for support. Work on getting rid of the guilt, read cult psychology books...and stay on this board, you'll learn much!
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  I hope this memorial doesnt backfire ...........

  by fleaman uk in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  well,ive decided to go tomorrow night after all.not to my local cong but another one in the city where i have a very good friend and a few distant family members.i dont agree with much of the orgs teachings or promotions,but i do believe in jesus and really just have a very,very powerful urge to pay my respects to him.. i have been telling my "worldly"girlfriend about the religion and naturally,she is quite interested as this was part of my life since an early age.. blow me down she really wants to come with me!so when she walks into the hall tomorrow and gets a very warm welcome it will possibly shock her,after some of the stranger stories i have told her about the faith(vague stories including no xmas,disfellowshipping,no after school activities etc).i have told her that the welcome she receives will be warm and imho genuine too.she is quite a spiritual person anyway and will enjoy the occasion.. my worry would be that she will enjoy it too much and go to a follow up.it is quite probable.she has never had anything to do with jw,s before, till going out with yours truly .. i,m interested in your comments?.

  thanks for listening.

  flea.

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  AuntieJane

  You've surely read the stories of spouses who are not JW. Why even risk it? Tell her upfront more about WHY you only go once a year; then suggest that you both find a church to go to on Easter and see what showing respect for Jesus is really about. I'm serious. Don't let her risk the chance of being misled. IF you both go, print out some of the descriptions of the Memorial and why it is so against what Jesus wanted us to do...we aren't to reject him, we are ALL to accept him and partake and eat.
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  Morning worship comment from Bethel

  by Smoky in

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  i received this email from a friend of a friend:.

  'comments made by brother lett at morning worship today.. the comments were about the work we have of bearing witness of the truth.

  " again, the angels make note of it.. we knock at the fifth house and again no one is home.

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  AuntieJane

  Ever hear of Good Angels and Bad Angels??? Maybe they are the Bad Angels doing the work/ how do we know????
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  JW's are not Christians

  by Witch Hunter in

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  2. bible

  i've noticed on this forum that a fair few ex-jw's still refer to the members of the non-christain cult known as the jehovah's witneses as christians.

  im aware that current members may wrongly believe they are in fact christians because the organisation leads them to believe they are serving god.

  but for ex-members who are awake to the false teachings of this non-christain organisation, i thought they may be more prudent in their choice of words, and not refer to them as christians.

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  AuntieJane

  Wasn't the title, Jehovah's Christian Witnesses, added in recent years? I think it was added only to try and make them appear more mainstream. Anyone have this history?? I'd like to know when it was added.

  I vote NO that JWs are not true Christians.

  Trinity or No, it is the Holy Spirit who indwells in Christian believers. How much WTS teaching is given re the Holy Spirit??

• Romans 8:9, 14 "But you are not in the flesh, but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.... [14] for as many as are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."
  (If we "have not the Spirit of Christ" we are not his...not Christians. But, if, and only if, we "are led by the Spirit of God" we are the sons of God...Christians.
  The word "Christian" does not just mean"a follower of Christ," but, rather, it means "belonging to Christ." A Christian possesses eternal life through the Spirit of Christ that is in him or her.
  Christians are not those who just blandly follow the teachings of Jesus because they think it is a nice way to live and behave. Christians are not those who just look to Christianity as some kind of cure-all for a nation's social ills.
  Jesus came here and died a gruesome death so that we might have eternal life. He loves us, and wants us to live forever with him. That is the fact, and the subsequent hope, that a Christian bases his or her life on.)