@ UNDER THE RADAR - and everyone else here:
Perhaps the Illinois authorities (and others!) should be made aware of the fact that every baptized JW is recognized as an ordained minister, by themselves AND the org.
On that basis, shouldn't every baptized JW in Illinois be required to get instructed in CSA protocols?
w01 1/15 p. 25 - What a
joy to see newly dedicated ones follow in Jesus’ footsteps by
submitting to water baptism!...When baptized they become ordained
ministers of the good news...
w00 4/15 p. 19 -
Especially must we as Christians, ordained ministers of Jehovah God,
have a healthy concern about how others view us.
w87 1/15 p. 30 - The
speaker showed that our baptism is at one and the same time a most
serious and a most joyous occasion. By means of it, we gain peace
with God and become ordained ministers of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
w87 5/15 p. 27 - Last
year alone, almost 12,000 persons were baptized and became ordained
ministers of Jehovah.
w85 9/1 p. 18 par. 11 -
All along, it has been necessary for genuine God-ordained Kingdom
ministers to defend their authorization for the ministry. Their
qualification as duly ordained ministers of God has been challenged
and discounted.
w73 5/15 p. 315 - All
these workers are ordained ministers who also share in preaching and
teaching God’s Word to others.
w71 2/15 p. 123 -
...sixty-two persons baptized in the Atlantic Ocean....represented in
these newly ordained ministers.
w70 1/1 p. 21 par. 10 -
but the dedicated, baptized disciples [JW's] certainly are all ordained
ministers.
w66 5/15 pp.
300-301 par. 3 - Jehovah’s witnesses are a society of ordained
ministers.