....i have always heard the term, "dedication", used as part and parcle of the term/act of baptism.
you know, "dedication and baptism".. just recently, i've been wondering, why?
it's not that i don't believe dedicating oneself to jehovah is a noble thing, i'm just wondering what the reasoning is for formally linking dedication with baptism.. have i missed something really simple here?
Your post got me thinkin' how glad I am...thinkin' back on it now...that when I got baptized in '74...I did not have to say the words that later JW's had to say.
There are 2 questions...as we know that one is asked at baptism...the second one now includes a dedication to the Org.
I dedicated my life...at the time...to Jehovah and Jesus... :)
just the way I would have wanted it!
Pax,
joel
whassup!.
i thought i would toss out a few group names with a distinctive spiritual bent to their lyrics...and see what yall thought of them.. creed is big right now...lyrics are...well...you tell me.. same with sixpence none the richer...collective soul...kendall payne(she does that theme song for the show popular)...and others.. there are a number of popular, secular groups with a noticable spiritual message to their lyrics.. any thoughts!?.
pax(peace) to ya my ifriends,.
Those bands I like that are Christian bands like Jars of Clay are...Third Day and Jennifer Knapp.
Pax,
joel
whassup!.
i thought i would toss out a few group names with a distinctive spiritual bent to their lyrics...and see what yall thought of them.. creed is big right now...lyrics are...well...you tell me.. same with sixpence none the richer...collective soul...kendall payne(she does that theme song for the show popular)...and others.. there are a number of popular, secular groups with a noticable spiritual message to their lyrics.. any thoughts!?.
pax(peace) to ya my ifriends,.
The new Creed Album lyrics are very good BTW.
Thanx for the thought!
Pax,
joel
...to read "crisis of concience" and continue on believing that the organization is (or ever was) gods organization?
Good one...fellow once-assimilated one!
Pax,
joel
whassup!.
i thought i would toss out a few group names with a distinctive spiritual bent to their lyrics...and see what yall thought of them.. creed is big right now...lyrics are...well...you tell me.. same with sixpence none the richer...collective soul...kendall payne(she does that theme song for the show popular)...and others.. there are a number of popular, secular groups with a noticable spiritual message to their lyrics.. any thoughts!?.
pax(peace) to ya my ifriends,.
Whassup!
I thought I would toss out a few group names with a distinctive spiritual bent to their lyrics...and see what yall thought of them.
Creed is big right now...lyrics are...well...you tell me.
Same with Sixpence None the Richer...Collective Soul...Kendall Payne(she does that theme song for the show Popular)...and others.
There are a number of popular, secular groups with a noticable spiritual message to their lyrics.
Any thoughts!?
Pax(Peace) to ya my ifriends,
joel
hi all...am new to your great forum....got a sore back from shoveling all the new snow today and yesterday...:-) "smile" it makes them wonder....:-)
Welcome...n sorry about the snow...it's been round 80 here in LA!
Pax(Peace),
joel
so how long have all you guyz here been apostates anyway, just curious?.i mean, it must be kind of cool to reflect and think...."well, heck, i'm a damned freaking apostate" or altleast a closet apostate, of which most of you are, i think?, right?.yeah, such a cool label is "apostate" huh!.but i'm interested, just how did all here personnally come to realise 'the truth' aint really that?, what set you on that track and made you look outside the bounds of wt literature into so-called apostate areas.. and what finally convinced you that its all just a heap of nonsense?
and forced you to shockingly conclude you had been living a lie?.what did it do to you at that moment, i mean, how did you deal with this blatant self admission that the wt was wrong?
did it crack you up or what...or did you just laugh it off or something?..
The whole thing is not funny! The fact is that it is reeeealy sad....to have spent so much valuable time and energy for the wrong cause
The only good thing is that we took in the knowldge that open our eyes... knowledge is power.
We can feel good about where we are at now!
Pax,
joel
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hey you guys...what's up?.
i'm new here..spending most of my time on another board(followed someone here)...but i would like to drop in from time to time..if that's cool!.
i've been associated with jw's since '72...baptized in '74(just under the wire ;o)...part of those years serving as an elder and now...well...that's a loooong story!...just let me say that i had/have issues.. but we will not talk about those now!!
Thanx for the welcome...seems like a cool bunch!
Nepal?...Wow!
Pax ifriends,
joel
hey you guys...what's up?.
i'm new here..spending most of my time on another board(followed someone here)...but i would like to drop in from time to time..if that's cool!.
i've been associated with jw's since '72...baptized in '74(just under the wire ;o)...part of those years serving as an elder and now...well...that's a loooong story!...just let me say that i had/have issues.. but we will not talk about those now!!
Hey you guys...what's up?
I'm new here..spending most of my time on another board(followed someone here)...but I would like to drop in from time to time..if that's cool!
I've been associated with JW's since '72...baptized in '74(just under the wire ;o)...part of those years serving as an elder and now...well...that's a loooong story!...just let me say that I had/have issues.
But we will not talk about those now!! ;o)
Anyway I'm totally cool now and hopeing the same for my new ifriends!!!
Pax(Peace),
joel
