Paul's Idea of Community: The Early House Churches in Their Cultural Setting, by Robert J. Banks.
http://www.amazon.com/Pauls-Idea-Community-Churches-Cultural/dp/0801045541/ref=tmm_pap_title_0
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What is the Biblical Leadership Model for Christian Communities?
by fulltimestudent innb: i'm using the word 'community' in lieu of the word 'church' or congregation.. --------------.
i know what i used to believe about organisational leadership in a community of christians.
1 timothy ch.3 was firmly fixed in my mind.
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Fading, Stopping Meetings, DA or DF'ing, Thoughts on Getting the Hell Out Of There
by OnTheWayOut inso i read some threads about why someone remains a ministerial servant or elder, or why they are still active jw's.
others are telling stories about how they cut back slowly, and some of them got removed as ms/elder/pioneer or whatever.
yet others tell of how they just up and stopped going one day.
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oppostate
Once the invitation to appear before a judicial committee for apostasy was given me,
a PDF attached letter emailed to the three bros in the committee and the COBOE worked
very nicely so they don't bother me anymore. In other posts I've described what the letter
said and how I presented what future actions would follow as consequence of whatever
actions they sought against me.
My wife is still very loyal to the WTB&T$, so I also made sure that anything said to her without
my being present would be reason to involve higher ups in their hierarchy and my taking judicious
and stern action against them individually and as a body for slander.
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@Timt
My first reaction when reading CoC was shock and disbelief, but it settled in that I'd been wrong and had ignored so many warnings from family who aren't JWs and they'd been right all along about the "cultish" behavior of the WT religion.
What really did it for me was learning about the double standards, Malawi/Mexico, and the unnecessary suffering people in Malawi went through for following this Publishing Corporation as if it was God's Channel on Earth as they claimed.
Also the treatment of Ed Dunlap made the situation very personal. It exposed the lack of Christian love and fellow feeling among the Bethel bigshots and their blindly following hierarchy.
Continue reading, Timt, and please post your reactions as you progress reading the book. I'd be interested in comparing insights.
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BBC Radio 4 reference to 607 Babylonian conquest?
by 88JM inwas listening to bbc radio 4 late sunday night, and in a programme about migration, they referenced the "babylonian conquest of jerusalem in 607 b.c.
" which caught my attention.. did they not mean 587 b.c., or did i understand it wrong?.
the link to the programme is below - sorry if you're not in the u.k. as you probably won't be able to listen to bbc programmes.
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oppostate
I just sent in a complaint and requested a retraction and correction.
I also suggested that they may have a researcher who is biased and is promoting outdated and disproved chronological figures crafted by 19th century religionists to support their hopes of the world ending in the last century.
It would be best, I wrote, to present the view most currently held by scholars who are well researched in this field and give the date of 20 years later, that of 587 BCE.
Let's see what comes of it.
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What is the exact meaning not posting in a language other than English in the Guidelines
by SonoftheTrinity inin other words, can i use a loanword.
or a parochial phrase of an english based dialect.
or a short motto from another language along with a translation without being in violation.
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oppostate
Bien dicho,
Well said,
me parece que puede escribir en otro idioma sin que nadie le diga nada si incluye una traducción.
I think you can write in another language without anyone minding if you include a translation.
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My three days of hell summary - Part I
by cookiemaster inwell guys, i finally got back from the dc or whatever it's called nowadays.
it wasn't really as bad as i expected but still, it was pretty bad.
the first interesting thing happened on the road.
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Assembly Invitations: A Sad, Pathetic Anachronism
by metatron inso, witlesses are handing out assembly invitations locally for their gatherings to invite the public to attend...... .
a meeting that's 50, 100, 150 miles away?
there was an era when placards were put in storefront windows and bombastic sermons were delivered by radio.
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designs says:
People travel hundreds and sometimes thousands of miles to events they consider important- Peace rally, political event, Woodstock, other.
You said it "events they consider important". The proof is that there's just about no response from the public and nobody but loyal JW's consider the event "important".
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Do the GB travel with assistants (body men)?
by Skinnedsheep injust curious.
i would love to spend about 3 hours on a plane discussing things with one of these spiritual giants..
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oppostate
Greenlees certainly did travel with body men (ASSistants).
He was well known for having a young and handsome bethelite "companion" with him wherever he went. Sometimes more than one.
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At RC, Splane says 1000+ new KH's needed, last year only "60" new one's built.
by oppostate inso there are now regular, full time "construction servants" and their help is much needed along with regional rbc volunteers, who better get working because over a thousand kh's are needed and last year only sixty were built by the u.s. branch.
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splane also said that just with the new baptized this weekend all over the u.s. we had one whone new circuit, so we better put more work into building needed kingdom halls..
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oppostate
Good question Blondie.
In the New England (MA) area a little twitty CO by the name of Scotty Henry had instructions to merge as many local congregations as possible.
All around the District there were congregations that had split into two the last decade that were now being merged once again.
And those that were merged and asked to go to another KH were asked to help expand and renovate their new assigned Hall, and their old one sold, KH and land, the money from the sale didn't go to updating the old Hall that now had two merged congregations meeting inside, the money went to the KH building fund so that the old Hall could take out a loan from the Society, back when this happened about seven years ago we were still paying interest on loans from the Society.
It was quite a scam! And the scam continues.
Because there are so many KH's that had merged congregations that now the traveling overseers and the RBC'er bigshots are recommending building new KH's. One recent new KH in Leminster MA is the latest one in this new scam. Over in New Hampshire, near Concord, before the KH project was begun a letter was read to all neighbouring congregations in a two hour circuit to help donate towards the building materials. A congregation in Keene with about 60 publishers mostly retired folk, most in their late 60's 70's and 80's (two in their 90's) donated $30,000 toward the building materials. No accounting was ever sent back to the Keene congregation about what was done with all that money says the Secretary, but it was found out that another congregation also in NH had given $15,000, several other NH congregations smaller amounts, and one in Eastern Vermont $8,000 for the same purpose. What did the KH Building Fund put out???
When the time's up and the money needs to hit the table, the borganization reps of the RBC and the traveling overseers make sure that the local congos get fleeced even more so that Momma WT doesn't have to dish out any of its easily conned contributions.
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Pets aren't people, says speaker at Regional Convention. Fido and Mimi better watch out! And instead of drinking wine or beer go do some gardening or play golf.
by oppostate ina big discussion driving back from the regional convention about what exactly was meant about pets.. the warning was obvious to me.
don't get pets, they cost time and money and you would do better to spend your time and money supporting the organization and going in field service.. as to the wine and beer, because the bro during his soliloquy admitted that the first thing he would like to do is relax after a hectic day at work with a glass of wine or beer, his conscience was traumatized.
however he came up with a perfect idea, he'd go tend the garden (obviously a solution for a married bro) or hit some golfballs at the driving range (maybe he's not married).. maybe jesus should have told the wine guzzlers at cana to sober up and go till the fields.. .
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oppostate
Wouldn't it be nice if these talking heads from Bethel would just give up talking about what doesn't concern them?
Maybe then they'd be more able to give encouraging spiritual talks about Jesus lessons on loving your neighbor and doing good to others.
But probably not, they're only concerned about what's good for the borganization and doing good for the Watchtower Investment and Real Estate Holdings Company.
