ive given this new arrangement a lot of detailed thought and how greatly it benefits the wt and how much it puts a strain on each congregation.. first, let me explain how the old arrangement worked.. you had 3 donation boxes in each kingdom hall.
one for worldwide work, one for kingdom hall construction and one for congregation contributions.. the congregation contribution box accounted for about 60-75% of all donations.
the world wide work box probably accounted for 20-30% and the kingdom hall construction for about 5% of the contributions.
Excellent.
The only benefit I see that the Congregation gets is an updated hall every 10 years or so without a loan payment.
I would say that the congo have to "get in line" with other congregations and wait more that that to update their KH first, if they are using WT's construction program. Most of the times there are more congos in need of repair than others.
after the big a comes, they will have alot of work to do.
i think they would be shocked and disappointed.
according to the scriptures that at the end of 1000 year reign, alot of people will fail the test.
our memorial was held at a music hall with roughly 1300-1400 in attendance.
there was a guest speaker from bethell, guess who??
andre!
last year i decided to attend the memorial.
i came in last minute and ended up sitting at the end of the row.
when the symbols were passed out they skipped me and gave to the person next to me.
If he is seated in a row with others and proceeds to partake of the emblems. Such a one is not counted, in any case, as a partaker.
So, they and only they have the only word of who can partake and is going to heaven...I guess is their religion and their rules. Weird.
in the july 2014 study wt article titled "jehovah's people "renouce unrighteousness".
par 9 and 10 .
9. how did foolish and ignorant debates affect the early christian congregation?.
That's Queens Assembly Hall in the picture, not Jersey's.
the jws have a cart at the train station near my work and today they're featuring the april watchtower and awake magazines.. have you seen these yet?
have the society discovered the worldly technique of using attractive cover models to sell their products or something?
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She's very pretty.
when i saw this article's title in the latest kingdom ministry - http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/bible/278822/1/june-2014-kingdom-ministry-km-06-2014-pdf - i was delighted!!.
i thought, "at last, we are all being encouraged to visit our poor brothers & sisters in nursing homes, who feel abandoned!.
nope, that's not it - it's all about targetting non-witnesses in those establishments, and get them to sign up for "bible" studies.
I would like to compare the works of other religions in nursing homes againts the Jws. I bet the Jw are only books! tracts! study! and other religions are more humane.
the phonograph records recorded by judge rutherford have been uploaded to the internet archives.. you can stream them and listen.. https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3a%28j.%20f.%20rutherford%29.
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Marked. Thanks Terry.
new guidelines for field service coming this summer.
new publication to be released giving new ways of counting time, conducting studies, group activities, etc..
Will keep a close eye on this thread.
i feel like i wasn't allowed to read a lot of books when i was younger, a lot of which i'm discovering are positivly phenomenal.. i was allowed to read edgar allan poe, who remains my all time favorite writer.
but, i've discovered the joys of stephen king, anne rice, joyce carrol oats, neil gaiman, george r. martin, david sedaris... and so so so many more.. i'm currently getting through "the shining" so i can move on to "doctor sleep".
i'm interested to see if anyone else that discovered the many joys of "worldly" literature, jumped immediately into what they weren't allowed to read... and what was your favorite?.
I love books!
