there's a study article "make sure of the more important things", and in no uncertain terms the article makes clear that "jehovah's organization" is the most important thing.
the term "organization" or "jehovah's organization" is used a whopping 24 times in the article, including a subheading titled: "follow the example of jehovah's organization".
i thought organizations were entities, but that sort of subheading makes it seem like the organization is one giant person whose example we can follow.
just scanned thru very quickly..page 32,,was article of JWs going to prison during wwI, this sentence got me: "
Although our position as Christian neutrals may not have been
fully understood by our brothers nearly a century ago, they sought
to please Jehovah God.**************************************************************************************************************************
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there's a study article "make sure of the more important things", and in no uncertain terms the article makes clear that "jehovah's organization" is the most important thing.
the term "organization" or "jehovah's organization" is used a whopping 24 times in the article, including a subheading titled: "follow the example of jehovah's organization".
i thought organizations were entities, but that sort of subheading makes it seem like the organization is one giant person whose example we can follow.
It's on now: http://www.jw.org/en/publications/magazines/w20130515/
I haven't read it yet.
there's a study article "make sure of the more important things", and in no uncertain terms the article makes clear that "jehovah's organization" is the most important thing.
the term "organization" or "jehovah's organization" is used a whopping 24 times in the article, including a subheading titled: "follow the example of jehovah's organization".
i thought organizations were entities, but that sort of subheading makes it seem like the organization is one giant person whose example we can follow.
sd-7 had the 4-15-13 WT on line here Jan 8. I can't find the 5-15-13 WT up yet and now 2-14,,when is the study WT mag suppose to go online? Anyone know how their schedule goes for that? Thx
the year once 1983 and the brother who use to study the bible with me drove by and had a full on "charles manson" looking facial hair and beard.
i asked tina, a friend what's up with him?
tina was 19 and a hot red-head woman who was partially in the religion but had problems with fornication.
My dad grew a beard for awhile. My brothers didn't grow beards but wouldn't wear a suit for years.
as soon as i saw the number i knew something bad had happened.
seems my mother (71) has breast cancer in her remaining breast.
her first time was in 2001. i volunteered my son's services for taxiing back and forth or whatever is needed.
So sorry to hear about your mom. I hope treatments will help again. Such a difficult time for a whole family.
My mother died of Hodgkins cancer. Of course, all comments were that she would be resurrected 'soon.' That was in 1970.
what are the consequenses of breaking an engagement between two jws which lasted 2 years?.
Years ago, if a Bethelite broke an engagement, would be immediately "dismissed" from Bethel and no "privileges" (pioneer, MS, elder) for at least a year or so.
Go slow,,actually the children can acclimate and integrate into the real life more easily. Going slowly, one day at a time for sure. If you are not going at all and their father is not that active, then the kids find an open window in their lives. Little by little. Encourage them in sports, if they are inclined. Mine were very active, sportsy so all that came natural and a healthy diversion for us.
Always encouraged school and extracurriculars. So none of them were ever baptized. Again, their dad wasn't hardly active so was relatively easy for us. I always reminded them to be respectful of their dad and how he believed and he didn't push against things much, except holidays, of course. All five kids graduated college too and are grateful for their freedom of mind and heart.
So many best wishes in the best part of your life ahead and for your children to be able to look back on their youth with joy, no fear of destruction, and their mom having unconditional love for them.
one thing that i havn't mentioned in any of my posts is that i have a 26 year old son along with the 4 kids that my wife and i have together.
i became a father very young, 15 to be exact.
that's a whole other issue but not on this post.
if anything, you sound like a gentle soul,,taking everyone else into consideration,,but maybe not yourself enough. Your concerns are valid regarding your younger son. Time for your son to get "reality." Time is now, for his own sake, it won't get any easier.
http://www.jw.org/en/news/by-region/europe/russia/overturned-court-decision/.
"those perceived to have dissenting views were rounded up and tried at meaningless show trials.".
now that doesn't remind me of anything... .
wish I could see (but in English) the actual source of this quote. I distrust the 'quoting' of the WTS anymore.
i've been playing around with wt statistics recently, helped by the great data available on jwfacts.com.
i wanted to share somehting with the community, maybe you've seen something like this before.. continuing the trend of decline seen during the last 30 years, i was able to extrapolate the year when wt growth might finally end.
if trends continue, we may only have to wait about 8 more years, 9 years to see it reported if the wt decides to report it at all, to see publisher growth end and possibly reverse.. the graph shows the annual growth rate of average publishers during the last 31 years.
Looks great..but I wonder if 2014 could hasten it even sooner.
