i remember a thread not long ago with all the scriptures.
also one that we have to be witnesses to jesus.
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My second favorite: John 5:21-23:
For just as the Father raises the dead up and makes them alive, so the Son also makes alive whomever he wants to. For the Father judges no one at all, but he has entrusted all the judging to the Son, so that all may honor the Son just as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
i remember a thread not long ago with all the scriptures.
also one that we have to be witnesses to jesus.
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My favorite on this topic: John 5:39,40:
You are searching the Scriptures because you think that you will have everlasting life by means of them; and these are the very ones that bear witness about me. And yet you do not want to come to me so that you may have life.
so i called a few jwdubs that still talk to me, not to try to convince them of anything or wake them up but to try to get a feedback on how they took the big meeting change and other announcements.
generally speaking, all the ones i talked to were not even fazed by the changes.
many of them still didnt even realize the meeting format had changed and thought the layoffs were a normal thing that happens all the time.
He went on to point out that when the Israelites left Egypt, it was a big change from a stable society to wandering in the wilderness. In Egypt they had onions, leeks, housing, etc, but in the wilderness they were wanderers, not knowing where they were headed the next day.
Do JWs not actually READ the Bible? The Israelites were on the threshold of the promised land. Then all except Caleb and Joshua gave a bad report and were too scared to go in. It was only AFTER that that they wandered. The wandering was their own fault! Had they kept their mouths shut, they would have been in the promised land 40 years earlier than they ended up in it. JWs conveniently forget this tiny little detail and talk about all the wandering and providing God did during that time.
none of my jehovah's witness relatives called to tell me or my family.
just found out this morning.
had a quick look at the workbook and flicked through the sample meeting video.. the increased use of video shows the trend for more centralised dissemination of "best practice" .
sure there isn't really a "school" any more and the format is a bit different but i think those that called it as the same old crap just in new package got it pretty much right.
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the question i will be asking dubs at the hall this week is, "since jesus is directing the slave.... why has he done a 180..?".
last sunday we studied how jesus is directing the slave to build an average of 5 kingdom halls a day since 2000. why has he changed his mind and gone in the completely opposite direction?.
if this 'change' is not securely lodged in their craw by the time i am through, then i will eat my hat..
If I were a full-in JW, I would respond by quoting Ezekiel 1:17: "When they moved, they could go in any of the four directions without turning as they went." That means forward, left, right and backward. If I were a full-in JW.
ok. when i first looked at the cover of this issue of awake i was instantly struck on how creepy it looked.
my first impressions were the picture looked almost masonic in nature.
well, further investigation has led me to another picture that shows a grand masonic hall.
organized - http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/organized-to-do-jehovahs-will.
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Nah, they're not dropping 607. It appears in the End Notes of the new Teach book (page 217)
no the wt borg is not closing!
that's wild dreaming!
they have been changing directions for a while now, and for whatever reasons, what is happening now is a part of that change!
I agree, it's not closing. It may be stalling for a bit, and likely strategically. If anyone has played games like Clash of Clans or any other empire building game, there is a time to stop building and just let the gold roll in. At a later point in time, the amassed amount can be used to buy/build more. If it is true that downsizing will happen and building will be halted, I suspect it will only be for a short period of time. Six months, a year, maybe two years. A lot of money can be amassed in that period of time with the KH tithing that is taking place.
