so in my part of the world, they are currently holding the week long elders schools.
my father is attending one.
does anyone (hello wifi bandit?
Are we sure there is a week long km school? Even pioneer school isnt a week long anymore
The School for Congregation Elders is for 5 days.
The Kingdom Ministry School is for 2 days (1 day for Elders, another for MS)
Pioneer Service School is for 6 days.
no organisation can operate without funds - that's a given.
however, when it comes to 'suggestions' on how one can make donations to support the org with its aims they are on a higher level.
in light of the recent video whereby they are looking for donations for a disaster fund, do you remember this gem from yesteryear?.
Such reminder articles come every year. The current is from November 2017:
i once asked my dad why, with all the power the wt insists on having so much control over its adherents' lives, they don't provide information about healthy eating habits or, like the adventists, wilderness training.
i mean, the gb encourage people to remain poor, and poverty is known to correlate with health outcomes, particularly those that are diet related.
i'd say most witnesses i knew over the age of 40 were overweight, had high blood pressure, heart problems, gastrointestinal issues, one kind of cancer or another (no doubt a result of eating their feelings if you ask me).
Why weren't resources provided to help them better their health
Some articles that are available in their publications:
Nutritious Foods Within Your Reach
one thing that bothers me greatly is the fact that they can change their policies and beliefs and just say its "new light" and no one bats an eyelid.. there are many scriptures such as isaiah 40:8 "the word of god will last to time indefinite.
" or hebrews 6:18 "it is impossible for god to lie".
if he is "spirit directing" the borg then there should be no need for new light..
they can change their policies and beliefs and just say its "new light" and no one bats an eyelid.
Have they actually used the term "New Light" in their official publications?
perhaps the one scripture most often quoted by jws is matthew 24:14: "this good news of the kingdomwill be preached in all the inhabited earth and then the end will come.
" even after decades away from the kingdom hall, i can still rattle off that verse.
i daresay all 8-plus million "active" jws can also recite it, plus the untold millions who have left or become inactive across the decades.. it is among the top cornerstone texts used in jw communications.. but now there's a significant shift in the use of that text: jws often focused heavily on the part of the scripture about the end coming.
Matt 24:14 is used as caption to the picture used on the home page and hence only that part of the entire verse which is relevant to the picture and which makes the point is used. That is what we call as use of partial quotes.
This was done by Russel too in the 1900's. The front page of the Watchtower only used some part of Isaiah 21:11,12 to point out the use of a Watchtower. "Watchman, What of the night? The Morning Cometh and a Night Also!"
Most of us do that. No one would use an entire sentence or a verse as a caption to an image. That's where a fair use of partial quotes come to use.
expect a day of fluff, more bells and whistles and boasting.
they are not going to throw shade on their glorious day.
but shortly thereafter when everyone's feeling good about themselves expect the hammer to come down during a morning worship broadcast..
Don't expect any more downsizing announcements at annual meetibg
Maybe you will have to wait for the letter that will be read to the congregations following the annual meeting.
Has it been leaked here yet? Letter dated 7th October 2017.: Re: Annual Meeting Announcements?
not all scripture is god-breathed.
there are verses that also dishonor god.
for example, subject of preaching seems to be too illogical even though it is the very basis of many sects [especially of jw organization which defines itself as the preaching organization].
It is like Obama saying in 2007
A Christian will not compare Jesus with Obama. There is more than a billion people who believe the Jesus is God and hence believe that he can work wonders. Obama didnt raise the dead, stop a storm or walked on water. If Jesus was a mere imperfect human, then you are right. But if he was a son of God, then things change. So its up to you to believe.
But it is obvious that he did not say.
I don't know how you came to this conclusion.
some years ago, i attended a jw wedding.
marriage speaker said something which changed my life for the better, and it helps me even now.
he told the couple: “the very make up of man and woman is such that conflicts can often arise between you.
If you go to college, by the way, you learn public speaking as well.
But many who never had the opportunity to go to college learned it as JW's. For e.g. My parents
a christian at work has been after me for more than a year to go to his church and be saved.
i like the guy and consider him a friend and have been politely trying to avoid the subject.
i have recently decided that enough is enough and i told him i would discuss religion with him.
Finally the Sun is created on the fourth day!
The issue here is most Christians believe that all planets, sun, moon, stars etc were created on the frist day itself. Gen 1:1: God created the heavens and the earth. Everything else apart from the earth can be included in the term heavens.
Gen 1:3: Light from the already existing sun now penetrated to the earth through the cloud layers, even though the source of this light was not seen. Mostly like opening the window curtains and letting the light from the sun come in.
Gen 1:14-16, Here the hebrew word ʽa·sahʹ is used which means 'make' and not create ('bara'). So God did not create the sun and the moon, but rather made them discernible to humans from the earth in a way that they could observe their movements and understand climatic patterns.
was talking with a family member today and they said that there is something special going on at the kh this weekend.
any idea what it is?
they said that some kind of broadcast from bethel for everyone..
It is special because it also will host the dedication of the new world headquarters.
