What happened to the Watchtower Society's emphasis on learning your Bible, developing a stronger doctrinal foundation and providing talks that were relevant in peoples lives? Previous threads have questioned the lack of discussion/debate young or old Witnesses will engage at your door. The solution lies in the down sizing of deep Bible based talks, real substance discussed at Meetings has gone away. They are serving up half ground beef and half "Pink Slime". Have you ever tried to grill a burger with this ratio of meat to fat? The fire from the coals or gas will engulf the meat, the fatty pink slime causes a little inferno and your burger shrinks to 1/4 to 1/8 the original size. Garbage in equals garbage out, until they change their methods of teachings, encouraging along with basic life skills, things are going to get very ugly!
The Watchtower is relentless with their pushing people into Field Service but not providing the tools necessary to do the job. You are micromanged in every facet at the Kingdom Hall, your comments are suppose to be less than thirty seconds. The friends cannot express their faith, without the clicking of a stop-watch, timing their every expression of faith! GB members or the Writing Group are so focused on quantity, that quality is discarded! In businesss when a company decides to cut labor, cut funds to fix infrastructure, cut advertising, marketing and basic repairs, you end up with the "Skeleton Crew" that treats everyone like crap, and drives customers away! Lack of love and apathy are taking hold of this beast by the neck, only love and quality Bible education can fight this mess.
When was the last time you heard a really good talk, that did not push "Field Service", Obey Elder's Goofey Ideas" "Blind Obedience", Give, Self-denial, avoid education, don't think outside the Borg" a talk that did not blow smoke in your face, and focused on the needs of your congregation as a whole? Congregational needs that were not slanted at pleasing the "Time Keepers" from New York, but "needs" that would upbuild the spirit of the whole? I was tired of working with elders who were more concerned with what the Circuit Overseer thought, than what the Bible said to think about the Sheep. It's all about "Keeping up with appearances", you are assessed on how other preceive you, and time is not wasted on trying to get to know the real you. People really are discourage, tired of spinning their wheels, walking in place, trying to please the emotional and spiritual vampires from Bethel-Patterson.
