What about teaching them the meaning of Sonship as taught in the Scriptures.
The anointedjw.org seems to be having good results.
fictional apostate takeover campaign.
stage #1.. what if in a town that had a particularly large amount of apostates and ex-jw's, over a period of a few months, they started going to a small congregation.
either pretending they were bible studies or just returning jw's, they got good standing in the congregation, priveleges etc.
What about teaching them the meaning of Sonship as taught in the Scriptures.
The anointedjw.org seems to be having good results.
the new revised larger print nwt bibles (nwtls-e) are being distributed now.. the margins are quite big in contrast to the skinny text columns.. the same fanciful mini-study material at the beginning and ends.. .
No, it just reads on a footnote that a number of authoritative ancient texts omit the passage.
the new revised larger print nwt bibles (nwtls-e) are being distributed now.. the margins are quite big in contrast to the skinny text columns.. the same fanciful mini-study material at the beginning and ends.. .
The new revised larger print NWT Bibles (nwtls-E) are being distributed now.
The margins are quite big in contrast to the skinny text columns.
The same fanciful mini-study material at the beginning and ends.
a few things noticed in last nights annual, jesus who?
gathering:.
1: only one scripture from the gospels was read or cited.
I went to a Massachussetts congregation during the second (less packed together) session.
The first session went over by 20 minutes. The KH was really packed in. One brother waiting
outside to get in commented to others waiting on either side of the exiting horde, "Wow, the
Hall tonight looks like one of those circus cabs when all the clowns start getting out of the car"
and so many of us laughed out loud and thought it so very accurate a statement.
One new partaker in the first session, an older brother, in good standing, but not a servant.
In the second session another brother partook there, it's a very new congregation and this
is the first time anyone has partaken in the last three Memorials/years they've been holding
meetings.
I thought it very funny when a Bible Student reached into the plate to take a piece of
flat bread and his "teacher" grabbed his hand and shook his head no, the poor young
guy just shrugged his shoulders. It reminded me of what Jesus said to the Pharisees
about preventing others to enter the Kingdom of the Heavens and that they themselves
did not go in.
what makes the faithful and discreet slave (fds) any different than the rest of us?.
isn't it their superpowers of channeling "food at the proper time"?.
is this a special talent?
The surety of how they proclaim to have the Truth(c) and everyone else is wrong, that's what really gets to me.
The lack of humility, the eagerness to slander other churches, the unwillingness to do anything for charity to help the poor, that's what I consider pharisaical and worthy of contempt.
The Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses have proven themselves to follow the un-Christian practices of Substitute Judge for a few days Rutherford, and like him are guilty of proclaiming men's teachings as if they were directed by God.
Thanks Terry for your logical and well reasoned, and balanced post.
mi first prophecy:.
friday afternoon: 4:20 teach your children to love gods kingdom!
new book/brochure for children based on the articles "teach your children" (appeared in watchtower public edition).
Good Ol' ILOOWY says:
Nuevo libro de la Organizacion. Para el Sabado de la asamblea regional
New OR book released the Saturday PM of the Regional Convention.
"Jehovah's Organization"
i am sure that the term "circuit overseer" will be gone soon.
they seem to be changing vocabulary and the presiding overseer is now the "coordinator of the body of elders" and all "district overseers" will be gone in a few months.
they used to be called "circuit servants" but they will never re-hash an old term so they will make a new term.
Regional Coordinators
i don't have anything good to say about these people.. if you can get past all of the ambient abuse.. if you can get past all of the twisted lies and shameful history.. if you can get past all of the familes destroyed and children damaged from the blood and 2 witness policy.. if you can get past all of the real estate laundering and for profit lies; it is all about the money.. if you can get past all of the hypocricy and bitterness.. if you can get past all of the gb megalomaniacs.. if you can get past all those things.. i still can't find anything good to say about this shameful group of ignorant people.. shame on each and every one of you controlling liers.. shame on each and every one of you who aid and abet this continued ambient abuse and ridiculous fraud of an organization.. shame on you..
@WhoYourDaddy
You weren't a JW baptized publisher by any chance, were you?
If you were to read what you wrote as a baptized publisher you'd be shocked and wouldn't think any of those things were accurate.
Would you apply those things to the organization while being an active Witness?
I too believe that the R&F Witnesses are mostly good hearted people who have been deceived by a self-serving printing and realestate holdings corporation posing as a religion.
i'm thinking around 20% have serious doubts and 99% have some doubts but keep them from becoming conscious to avoid cognitive dissonance.
this is becoming increasingly harder to do over the fact that the governing body are showing their true colors and the contridictions are so great..
The original discussion can be reached at:
Interesting to pass on what I heard from a substitute-CO about filling in for a regular CO while the CO was in training...
They were testing out whether local brothers could take the lead in circuit visits and then in turn the regular CO would be their trainer.
This was like five years ago. But then the CO's were moved all over again and nothing like that happened.
As to DO's... I knew Bro. Herd as a DO and he could be quite frank about the ordeals he'd gone through as a CO, but he actually seemed to liked being suppressed, having to endure all kinds of hardships and put up with the rules and the regulations that didn't make much sense, but he went along willingly doing his assignments, all this from what he told it like in a very free manner, like if you got a letter with a tongue lashing and you didn't feel that you deserved it he'd just chalk it up to the many times when he'd deserved it and got away without scolding from the Branch. I guess that's how to go up in the hierarchy, and he did, he made it to the GB.
any of you guys have the watchtower library 2013 in spanish???
alguno de ustedes tiene la watchtower library 2013 en espanol?.
alguien lo podria subir??.