There will be a special tract campaign. Well, they have one pretty much every year, so not sure how it's 'special' anymore...
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memorial 2009
by heathen inanybody hear anything special about it ?
was talking to a witness last night and he mentioned there was some significance to next years memorial in regard to the 1975 date or there about that ended mans six thousand years from creation and now it has something also to do with jesus 33.5 years on earth .
just curious for more info that may be out there as this person suggested that the remaining remnant were very excited about it..........
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2008 DC: Fear Tactics
by outofthebox inso, as you already know, i was in the 2008 dc.
three very boring days.
but, i paid attention to every speech, so, you guys don't have to go.
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The 2008 DC was all about the fear. This was particularly stressed during the talk on youth (the talk leading up to the release of the QYPA Pt2).
It was also all about the FDS - obey obey obey obey obey.
And we also got the comment that we don't need to fill ourselves with knowledge from the Bible. After all, Paul came to the congregations with - 1 Cor 2:2 For I decided not to know anything among YOU except Jesus Christ, and him impaled.
The brother handling that assignment quoted the above scripture and said, "So you can see from that verse Paul only came with basic knowledge so that he could tell the brothers about Jehovah God".
Kinda took me back to the times when the WT contained comments telling the brothers to leave studying the Bible to those in Bethel who wrote the magazines....
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No one else fulfills the preaching of Matt 24:14
by passwordprotected inas explained to me recently, only jehovah's witnesses are actively fulfilling matt 24:14, thus showing them alone to be the true religion.
sidestepping the glaring issue of jesus stating that love would mark the identity of true christians, let's examine that notion.. .
i have personally rebutted that opinion by stating, with accuracy, that many christians have a gospel ministry and manage to reach hundreds of millions of people across the planet with their message.. .
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@ Rockhound;
I JW recently told me that we don't mention Jesus as much in the 'ministry' these days because that's what was needed back in the 1st C. They needed to know about him back then. Nowadays people need to be warned about Armageddon instead of being told about Jesus. -
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No one else fulfills the preaching of Matt 24:14
by passwordprotected inas explained to me recently, only jehovah's witnesses are actively fulfilling matt 24:14, thus showing them alone to be the true religion.
sidestepping the glaring issue of jesus stating that love would mark the identity of true christians, let's examine that notion.. .
i have personally rebutted that opinion by stating, with accuracy, that many christians have a gospel ministry and manage to reach hundreds of millions of people across the planet with their message.. .
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@ truthseeker;
Exactly. And what blows my mind is you can safely, within the Greek, replace the word Christ with anointed. False anointed... -
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Practising 'Goodness' - from the District Convention
by passwordprotected inas heard at the district convention.
9 part symposium on how to display the fruitages of the spirit.
goodness.
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Here's a follow-up point;
Was the girl in fact being 'righteous' instead of good? What did Jesus say the difference would be? -
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Twilight Zone "On Thursday We Leave For Home" Parallels
by neverendingjourney inim a fan of the original twilight zone television series.
i recently saw an episode entitled on thursday we leave for home, and it dawned on me that it had some interesting parallels regarding why a lot of witnesses never leave the religion even when it starts to become clear that its not the truth.
of course, these shows presented short moral lessons and different people can find different morals in them, but i digress.
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Good analogy.
After a recent WT study re. the amount of hard work and study (they sure make a lot of 'new scrolls' being opened, don't they?) we'll need to do in paradise, a sister commented to me that it makes you wonder if you even want to be there.
For years we've been told that all of the sacrifices we make in this system - not being able to learn to play an instrument (takes too much time), not getting a better education (takes too much time), not having jobs that fulfill us (too distracting), not pursuing hobbies that fulfill us (takes too much time) - it will all be more than made up for in the paradise (God is stretching out his hand and satisfying the desires of every living thing).
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Steve Gordon - A Dark Tale
by Farkel insteve gordon a dark tale.
newly baptized jw steve gordon has just dried off and changed back into his cheap watchtower suit.
he sits down in the hot stadium heat and rubs his smooth, shaven face and closely cropped hair.
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@ shamus100 -
Very, very good point. The overriding thought I got from the 9 part symposium on the fruits of the spirit were, no matter who does what to you, it's up to you to show more fruitage of the spirit.
It's never up to the person wronging you to 1) stop it, or 2) demonstrate that fruitage in their life. Rather than teaching the active demonstration of love, they teach that when you're wronged or slighted or made to feel bad you must take steps to do more to feel better about it. -
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No one else fulfills the preaching of Matt 24:14
by passwordprotected inas explained to me recently, only jehovah's witnesses are actively fulfilling matt 24:14, thus showing them alone to be the true religion.
sidestepping the glaring issue of jesus stating that love would mark the identity of true christians, let's examine that notion.. .
i have personally rebutted that opinion by stating, with accuracy, that many christians have a gospel ministry and manage to reach hundreds of millions of people across the planet with their message.. .
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The point is, however, that no matter how the Society tacitly nods to other forms of preaching, perhaps even using technology to facilitate it, they still rely heavily on door-to-door. If any dub in a land where full religious freedom can be practiced replaced door-to-door with internet or radio witnessing they'd find themselves being questioned, scrutinised, and if a brother, removed and denied privileges in the cong (you need to have a 'seen share').
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Practising 'Goodness' - from the District Convention
by passwordprotected inas heard at the district convention.
9 part symposium on how to display the fruitages of the spirit.
goodness.
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Excellent point.
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Practising 'Goodness' - from the District Convention
by passwordprotected inas heard at the district convention.
9 part symposium on how to display the fruitages of the spirit.
goodness.
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As long as there's banners and ball gowns.