lets put all of our memorial stories/thoughts on one thread.
mine: 45 mins.
quick and boring.
watchtower is desperately trying to keep the number of partakers down. Attendants are told to count only ones that body of elders feel are "true, authentic, annointed".
wanna
really (said in a raised quizzical fasion)......how on earth are they able to tell that
this is the complete text from chapter 14 of organized to do jehovah's will.
prepare to hear more about "sifting" from the org.... .
chapter 14. maintaining the peace and cleanness of the congregation.
should have said by the short and curlies....would you be safe then
lets put all of our memorial stories/thoughts on one thread.
mine: 45 mins.
quick and boring.
Also, is it just me or does it seem like the anointed has been hovering around 8,500 for about forever!?!? Don't these old people die? Anyone have any statistics handy on what the numbers were years ago?
yes i was thinking about that too..someone did a thread on the stats recently and i noticed that the number has stayed at round 8-10 thou for 30 years....someone else said that while they were in bethel 'younger' ones (i presume not youths) were being encouraged to partake...odd-(see power of the holy spirit thread from yesterday)
i have been a reading these message boards for almost a year and have been thankful for the information i have read.
i have been dating a man for almost 3 years when i discovered last year he was a jw.
i have been trying to understand what this was all about - can't even begin to get a handle one how odd it can all be.
well said leological one...i know this is an emotional issue and i know that it touches a raw nerve with many but with all these issues the voice of reason and understanding that is not afraid to listen to both parties is likely to give the best advice for both....i know it would have done for me....the one addition i would make is that just because he was unfaithful to one DOESNT mean he will be again...im sorry i just dont buy that...
an elder told me the book is jehovah's latest provision to cleanse his organization.. he said soon all people that have drifted, inactives, and others baptized and not complying with the biblical mandates for a jw, will be visited and given an option to shape up or ship out.. he said that if the person refuses the help offered by the congregation they'll be notified of the date of disfellowshipping and given time to appeal the decision.. he was so happy stating that this way jehovah's organization was preparing for the final clean-up before armageddon.
he sounded so convincing that it almost made perfect sense what he was saying.
i got goose bumps listening to his reasoning.. dy
hey are these pictures by your names not the real you...how disillusioning is that....almost as disillusioning as being the chairman on a commitee for a girl with serious personality traits who had a witness mother who tried to stab her witness father and then got dumped by her witness fiance and who stole from her witness grandparents to fund her spending to try keep up with her witness friends who didnt want her round so much anyway and whose grandparents forgave her and agreed to her paying them back as and when she could (and then let her off with half anyway)...are you still with me...heres the point....and who the other two members of the commitee wanted to disfellowship BECAUSE THEY DIDNT LIKE HER DAD....it would have killed her....i didnt let them....and then one of her family disfellowshipped me...tijkmo
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sometime ago i saw a website that gave most of the churches with a continuous update of their increases etc.. i believe it is a mormon site.
yesidid
wow that is just plain scary
this is the complete text from chapter 14 of organized to do jehovah's will.
prepare to hear more about "sifting" from the org.... .
chapter 14. maintaining the peace and cleanness of the congregation.
if the 'go speak to your bro to try and gain him' is applicable to a case of slander then that is what i did and with that objective...they ignored me...wrote them a letter-just looking for an explanation...they ignored it...spoke to several elders about it..it was really messing with my head by now...they were sympathetic but what can we do...wait on j....spoke to 2 co's...they ignored me...wrote to the gb...they passed the buck to london who sent me a letter to say they were ignoring me...wait on j...couple of weeks ago i finally spoke to one of the elders responsible for the slander and he said that he had a vague recollection of the story and he would look into it and he would get back to me because he feels for any of j. people who have been victims of injustice...tijkmo..of the not holding my breath(heb-ru'ach..gr-pneu'ma) class
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a scripture was read during the talk i never thought of before, 1cor 11:26 which says:"for as often as you eat this loaf and drink this cup, you keep proclaiming the death of the lord, until he arrives.".
if he arrived in 1914, why do we still "eat this loaf and drink this cup"?
its the same reasoning as daniel 12 :1 where jesus is described as standing and whilst standing he then stands up...one happened in 1914/18/19 and the other happens at armageddon 1914/18/19/25/35/75/84/99/2014/2034/sometime/anytime/never/but definately very soon now
an elder told me the book is jehovah's latest provision to cleanse his organization.. he said soon all people that have drifted, inactives, and others baptized and not complying with the biblical mandates for a jw, will be visited and given an option to shape up or ship out.. he said that if the person refuses the help offered by the congregation they'll be notified of the date of disfellowshipping and given time to appeal the decision.. he was so happy stating that this way jehovah's organization was preparing for the final clean-up before armageddon.
he sounded so convincing that it almost made perfect sense what he was saying.
i got goose bumps listening to his reasoning.. dy
Ever try to tighten your grip on a fistfull of jello? You lose more than you keep.
im thinking jereboam/reheboam here
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i've noticed there are a lot of jw's in good standing on here these days... i know its a small sample but it seems promising.. any current circuit overseers/district overseers post on here, that would be crazy.
i think its pretty cool actually
odrade...i know half of 'us' are women....although come to think of it how do we know what the male female ratio is....anyway i digress..in a good deal of congs sis will have done a good few of these jobs anyway..in most cases better than the bros.........we had two teenage elders daughters in our hall who used to do the roving mikes and used to deliberately undo another button on their blouses and wear split skirts for the privelege...all the stretching and walking up and down was constrictive in normal sisters attire....kept us all awake though
