"In other cases, the disfellowshipped relative may be living outside the immediate family circle and home. Although there might be a need for limited contact on some rare occasion to care for a necessary family matter, any such contact should be kept to a minimum. Loyal Christian family members do not look for excuses to have dealings with a disfellowshipped relative not living at home. Rather, loyalty to Jehovah and his organization moves them to uphold the Scriptural arrangement of disfellowshipping. Their loyal course has the best interests of the wrongdoer at heart and may help him to benefit from the discipline received."
Hello All,
First of all thank you LUKEWARM for doing this much appreciated.
I dont usually post or comment here, i will write my story one day and look forward to getting to know you all at some point.
I just felt the need to comment on the above verse as this will be me in a couple of weeks, reading this just makes me errupt in anger, the controlling tone, mixing guilt and "loyalty" to Jehovah with their mind control is appauling, i have actually thought of not DA'ing myself because I can't bear to loose my family, but on the other side of the coin I feel that I need to because i don't want to be associated in anyway shape or form with an organization that would use tactics like this to control their members. The fact that this book is called "Keep yourself in Gods Love" reeks of presumptious pompus pride that can only be shown by self righteous unfeeling men who feel they can tell you and me how to keep the love of God. Who are they to tell me anything! How dare they take my family away from me! I have been homeless 3 times with my family, we have endured through a drug addicted family member stealing from us multiple times, we have gone hungry and stuck together! twice we have had money stolen from us by so called "Brother and Sisters" my mother has had support from me and my sibling when my father commited adultry, we have been together for 25 years through thick and thin! I have not even told you half the things! What takes that away from me? What could take the love and support of my family who has been through so much? The verse above from a mind controlling self surving CULT who only want to hold its members and drag more in. If someone decideds its not for them then they are labelled apostate and cast out like rubbish! I have seen it happen, I have even shunned people, I am ashamed that I have done it! Nothing can prepare you for something like this.
Thanks for reading
FT09
oh well.