the most recent watchtower contains study articles that address the growing alarm.
of the governing body that the organization may be losing the next generation of jehovah's .
witnesses.
You may have noticed a number of articles and books, intensifying in recentyears that are motivated by the same fear: Witness families and kids are drifting away.
The question then arises, why do the leaders of the Watchtower Society care? What
makes them so motivated to address this downward trend?
It's a simple rule of business that it's far more cost effective to retain an existing customer than it is to attract a new one.
hello all- i am putting together a directory of resources from different religious organizations that address the topic of disability and have had a difficult time finding anything from the jehovahs witnesses.... i am wondering if anyone out there knows of anything in the area of disability- websites, organizations, people??
the kind of thing i'm looking for is under the 'faith group specific' section here at http://www.faithability.org/directory/ i'm not really familiar with the jehovahs witnesses teaching on the topic, but our neighbors were jehovahs witnesses growing up and they were great neighbors to my two younger brothers with disabilities- i just want to make sure that i have a good and accurate representation- any help is appreciated.
thanks, christopher phillips http://www.faithability.org/
I was in a congregation years ago that had a sign language class every Saturday afternoon at the KH, for the benefit of a deaf sister who only had a few people to talk to because no-one else could sign.
this, i find, is always the bottom line.
'" "'you are my witnesses,'' is the utterance of jehovah, ''and i am god.
as his name is jehovah, the people must be jehovah's witnesses.
I always thought that was a weird thing to do - take a name directly from a Bible verse, and then point at the verse and say "Oooh, look! It's talking about us!"
i am trying to think of a good question to ask and elder that would be really tough for them to answer.
something hard to spin.
after alot of thought one good one i came up with is this.
My question is how can we be sure that we are reading Jehovas word from the FDS if the FDS can be influenced by satan?
"That's why they need a two thirds majority vote."
this is my first post.
a week back,gary buss started a post on the gb's claim to assembly halls and kh's in the new org.
book.i find this interesting because the kh in the city i reside in has been up for sale for the past year.
There was a lot of upset from the locals who had paid for and built that KH themselves and did not see one red cent from the sale....it all, of course, went to the WBTS.
Is this for real? The WTBTS can legally take possession of property that someone else paid for?
my jw mother breastfed my sibs so long they remember it.
one she stopped feeding when she went to kingergarten; i kid you not.
my mother justified it by saying moses' mother breastfed him until whatever age and the bible encourages it.
A child seeing a female breast is more likely to be adversly affected by a hysterical prude making a fuss about it, than by the sight of the breast themselves.
When I was in preschool, the teacher actually invited a friend of hers with a baby to visit the class and give a demonstration of how mothers breastfeed. Not sure what the point of it was, but I don't remember being particularly traumatized by it.
when is the fds appointed
can anyone tell me the date when the wt teaching of fds's appointment over master's belongings became an official doctrine of the society?
was it a new 'truth' revealed in a wt circa 1914/19, or was the doctrine developed piecemeal in hindsight because subsequent events seemed to indicate it?
WHO SAYS THIS IS PROPHECY? WHY CAN'T IT BE A PARABLE AND NOTHING ELSE?
We know this is the correct interpretation, because the FDS says so. And we know they are the FDS because they have the correct interpretation.
i am not necessarily referring to the scriptures they quote in greeting cards.
although this is enough to make you barf because it makes the person sending it out to be so "spiritual" (whether they are or not) and also it makes a false impression that they love you (whether they do or not).
what i am really referring to is when one of them needs a favor from you and they send you a note and put a smiley face at the bottom and quote some scripture.
Send a note back, saying something like -
Sorry, I won't be able to do it.
Numbers 3:36,37 - "And the oversight for which the sons of Me·rar´i were obligated was over the panel frames of the tabernacle and its bars and its pillars and its socket pedestals and all its utensils and all its service, and the pillars of the courtyard round about and their socket pedestals and their tent pins and their tent cords."
i touch on this subject in another post but i felt the need to take it further...back in the day jw's went out in fs but i don't know about today.... i live in a big city....the territory my congregation has is small because there are so many cong.
here.. our bookstudy only had maybe four blocks at the most to work.
my ex husband and i would go to the meetings and hear talk about fs and all the wonderful and experiences and the joy oh joy in being out in the ministry.
I read on a JW site that they do phone field service now. I wonder where they get the names and phone number from ?
From the telephone book. Our congregation had a small group (including myself) who met at the KH every Saturday for a couple of months and went through the phone book looking for addresses that were in our territory. Then we wrote down the names and numbers in a book and passed them on to another group who made the actual phone calls. We were allowed to count our time looking through the phone book as field service.
i often feel that i'm on this site having a 'moan' about one thing or another but this is one confused country when it comes to any sense of law any sense of law and order in any form.
yesterday, on his way home from school, by son was attacked by someone with a record for violent behaviour, a boy of the same age.
i rang the school and the police because son received injuries and was threatened with more violence if he reported the attack.
I used to get pushed around by bullies at school too, so I started taking jujitsu classes to learn how to defend myself. Funny thing is, I never once had to use it because they immediately stopped picking on me. It's like they could sense that I wasn't scared of them anymore.
