i have recently been given the privilege of taking the field service group.. .
can anyone give me some scriptures i can use to encourage the group?
can you also give a reason as to why these scriptures are helpful to our ministry.. .
NVR2L8--Great to get free!
OMG.
FL-P, I don't have the time today to say more than this: STICK AROUND.
Read everything you can about the Organization. If you don't care about what is true and what is not--it might not bother you to stay in. But the micro-managing is absolutely destructive. and the effect the WT has on family life----RUN, RUN, RUN! There are horror stories here.
As I said, stick around, for your own good.
Maeve
anybody hear from flipper.....haven't seen him on here lately!.
it is just not the same without him & i really miss his presence.. where is our friend ....anyone?.
clarity.
Just saying "Howdy!" Sounds like life, Mr. flipper. And that's a good thing.
But about your mom, that's the hard part of it all. We do what we can, don't we?
Take care,
Maeve
recently, since my d/aing, i've heard the same old cobblers has been said to and by my family members.
(more than likely referring to me).. ''jehovah(tm) will judge.
he knows who will survive and be destroyed at armageddon.
Making stuff up?-----It happens in all churches that teach there will be a massacre at judgement day by the ALL-LOVING God and his son.
If you can't understand how a loving father does this then you start to rationalize and figure ways around it somehow.....or somw people just know how crazy it sounds and will lie about what their church teaches.
I gravitated toward every possibility that God would be merciful and fair to people who had done the best they could in life--but I know that was not the sales pitch we were trained to give.."Sincerity is not enough.." is the way I learned it. "You can be sincerely WRONG."
It took me a long time to leave this lie. And yes, I made it (the WT version of "Truth") seem kinder than it was while I was one of its peddlers (pedlars for you Brits, Punky).
Maeve
this here is very educational.. http://www.funtrivia.com/tournament/jwd-trivia-quiz-75350.html.
come on, y'all.. sylvia.
I needed to study up! Fun and games----thanks, Syl.
is cremation proper for christians?the scriptures do not present any basic objection to the practice of cremation.. there are biblical accounts relating that the bodies or bones of dead people were burned.
(josh.
7:25; 2 chron.
Cremation is cheaper than burial. More to leave to Brooklynn?
after years of looking down on me for not being "in the truth", being told (more or less) that my daughter died because i did not have the "truth" and therefore god's approval.
my sister has, after forty years of marriage and fifty years of being in the truth....left her husband and her dis-fellowshipped son and gone to live with our other sister (who by the way is disassociated).
i am amazed at this turn of events, as i have always been led to believe that they were a fine example of how complete and spiritually protected they were as a family for being in the jw religion.
The recipes for happiness don't change just because you are a Witness--nor do the recipes for unhappiness. JW just blind themselves to reality. And suffer in their dark exclusive silence.
thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.
had to reference 1 cor.
11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.
Blondie!!!!! I love it! Beautifully, eloquently,silently true.
Now, these years after, I wish I could re-do my final meeting with the elders. I would drape that thing over my head and pray for deliverance....
thinking about how this felt awkward to some of us women when a bible student noticed something was "up" if a baptised brother sat in on a study.
had to reference 1 cor.
11:1-16.. i wonder if this irked any while you were still in?.
Legacy,
To the point of rules and laws--what is the difference between one and the other?
There are natural consequences for any action we take, we know this. But having laws to support arbitrary rules is non-sense.
Of all the non-sense rules in the bible the head-covering one is the most ancient and detestable because it pervades the intimate lives of couples all over the world.
Think about it, Paul retells the Genesis story. He says God made a rule that Adam consciously broke but that Eve unconsciously initiated the breach. This is a strange distinction--even an insulting one: Both paid with their lives, didn't they? Even in imperfect human law there are varying degrees of culpability and therefore of punishment even for murder. The screwed up penalty (subjection/inferiority to man) for women is the most unjust in the history of the earth.
This stupidity is wrapped up/embedded in these scriptures:
***1 Tim. 2:14--"Also Adam was not deceived, but the woman was thoroughly deceived and came to be in transgression."
***Romans 5:12, 18--"...just as through one man sin entered into the world, and death through sin..." " So then as through one trespass the result to men of all sorts was condemnation, likewise also through one act of justification...."
Sort it OUT! The bible writers have woman bear a primary guilt yet not the ultimate agent of the FALL. Adam is paired with Jesus Christ--while Eve is painted a weak-minded hussy.
And yet woman, despite the all the man-made rules laid hard on her back, must answer for her own salvation or be damned.
Twisted.
my window cleaner is a jw and as i am always working when he comes to my house i haven't seen him or spoken to him in years.
the other day i was in my local town and went into a cafe for some lunch.
who is sitting there but my window cleaner and his wife.
(Sorry foe double posts)
my window cleaner is a jw and as i am always working when he comes to my house i haven't seen him or spoken to him in years.
the other day i was in my local town and went into a cafe for some lunch.
who is sitting there but my window cleaner and his wife.
I would ask him how he squares his scruples--
If you (happy@last) are so vile that he will not talk to you, how is it he does business with you?
I knew an elder who prided himself on refusing to do work for a church that tried to hire his plumbing services. We weren't even to go to the Salvation Army thrift store as it supported false religion.
So he finds no conflict in taking payment from a person so reprehensible that he will not talk to you? Just how does he figure this?
