1 Thessalonians chapter one
d.boon
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-Let's say you had never heard of the Bible:
by Awakened07 inlet's say you've grown up in a country that - somehow - has shielded you completely from any knowledge of the bible and its god and history.
all your life you've believed in the four legged, three headed, four winged borlifingus (of course, the arms, legs etc.
are just representations of it's spiritual properties).
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Ever notice this at the Memorial.....
by Iwonder17 inyou can always tell your rank as a brother at the memorial by the following:.
parking lot attendant = just doing enough to have the boe remember your name.
outside attendat = you smell pretty bad and you embarrass the boe.
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d.boon
I think it really matters what congregation you’re in. I know of a congregation with an anointed brother who has no responsibilities yet they have enough respect for him that they have him say a prayer over the emblems every year. (he should be giving the talk but…) and I passed the emblems this year but I don’t feel like part of any club. We don’t have parking lots in the city, so we don’t have parking lot attendance or outside attendance. The way I’ve lived in a lot of places so let me break it down this way.
Attendance: Ministerial Servants (sometimes Elders)
Emblem Servers: Ministerial Servants (sometimes Elders)
Prayer: Elders (usually rotated every year)
Talk: Best Speaker (preferably an anointed brother)
I think because it is the only special occasion we have all of those on the servant body are happy to serve in what ever capacity they are asked to serve in, setting up more chairs ect. -
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Puke email alert: 'encouraging news' from GB
by Robert7 in(thanks a@g for reformatting) .
bro.
--- had a part on service meeting.
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d.boon
The Watchtower Organization was around during the depression and dust bowl of the 1930’s and 40’s, and people still went to people’s doors with phonograph in hand. It was during this period that they added the theocratic ministry school. Had 9 day Assembly’s that started at 9am and ended at 9pm.We live a lavish lifestyle today in comparison to past generations so why are they so afraid?
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d.boon
Non-Rock Favorites
Paco de Lucia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxodluTaz4g&feature=related
Chet Atkins
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Letter
by d.boon inabout two or three years ago do you remember (if you were on the body at that time) that the c.o.
told us we are no longer appointed by holy spirit anymore, i was looking for the letter and couldnt find it, i wonder if it was one of those letter read to us as apposed to left with us?
dose anyone remember this?
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Letter
by d.boon inabout two or three years ago do you remember (if you were on the body at that time) that the c.o.
told us we are no longer appointed by holy spirit anymore, i was looking for the letter and couldnt find it, i wonder if it was one of those letter read to us as apposed to left with us?
dose anyone remember this?
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d.boon
:I suspect this questioning voice was frog-marched to the back room smartly and demoted to 'private'.
Would you believe that all had the same “huh?” look on there face. Even the ones who are first to be lock step in there loyalty to the organization had a puzzled look on there face, my guess at the time (and this is only my guess) they had a fleeting moment of thought. (you mean I’ll have to answer for the way I act?)
I know I agreed with the brother and more than half the body had there head shaking in agreement with his statement.
I was talking to a long time friend who was a congregational servant back in the old days and still serves as an elder out west, and he said sometimes the branch (not allowed to call them the society anymore<- that letter I do have) said they test out cretin talks to see the response they get in cretin areas, he speculated that because of the outright willingness to question this they just dropped it as a topic.
Nothing happened to that brother who saud that during the elders meeting, if anything he’s gotten worse (by the branches prospective) while conducting the watchtower he actually corrected a sister when she answered “about the generation being new light” he said “oh forget about that. This probably won’t be the only revision we’ll have on it, just read your bibles!”
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"Anointed" In the WTBTS?
by AGuest into the household of god, israel, and all those that go with... may you have peace!.
there are many in the wtbts who partake and profess to be of the anointed, there is, in truth, however, no true anointed in the wtbts.
there cannot be, for the admonition is:.
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d.boon
I think there is something you are not thinking of in this statement. First none of the bride of Christ are harlots they are virgins. Second Christ told us that we would be mixed in with unclean things, the weeds mixed in with the wheat, the fish gathered in the fishnet. Third in all these illustrations we do not leave the wheat field or the fish net although we are surrounded by unclean weeds and fish, but it’s the angles that separate us at the final day.
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My apostate kids
by Honesty inyesterday, my son told me that he and his sister love christian rock music.. .
while their jw mom is not looking they give it up.... .
evidently, they are proving to be immune from the cult's kool-aid.. .
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d.boon
I’ve always loved Handel's Messiah that’s like Christian Rock right?
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Letter
by d.boon inabout two or three years ago do you remember (if you were on the body at that time) that the c.o.
told us we are no longer appointed by holy spirit anymore, i was looking for the letter and couldnt find it, i wonder if it was one of those letter read to us as apposed to left with us?
dose anyone remember this?
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d.boon
Saul isn’t a good example because he was the anointed of Jehovah. Appointed by holy spirit not by man or a body of men but by God himself.