dedicate your life to jehovah, by being baptized as a jw - not as a christian.
(a follower of christ - acts 11:26).
par.
With the same mouth they condamn people not waiting to marry, the SECOND most important decision one can make, until they are past some so-called "bloom of youth" WT praises pre-pubescent youths for making a life long decision to get baptized, the MOST important decision they can make, along with all the horrors that go along with it.
Sounds pretty hypocritical to me.
breaking news from jw.org..... "we are pleased to inform you that two additional brothers have been appointed to serve as members of the governing body of jehovah’s witnesses: brothers gage fleegle and jeffrey winder.
both brothers are anointed christians who have a long history of loyal service to jehovah.
brother fleegle began his full-time service in 1989 and bethel service in 1991. brother fleegle has served as a helper to the service committee of the governing body.
Those two look like the kinds of "men" I would just love to try and break my fist against their noses.
First impressions, y'know?
the jws are fond of quoting john 13:35 that love is the identifying mark of the true religion claiming that only they have this love among themselves.
they love each other.. i was reading the gospel of luke today and thought about the words of jesus luke 6:32-35 niv, “if you love those who love you, what credit is that to you?
even sinners love those who love them.
Service is things like - feeding the hungry, helping the homeless with warm clothes and hot food, helping people who have to choose whether they can afford to heat their homes, telling people about the gospel of Jesus, etc.
You make a valid point, it is sad though that the JW governing body refuse to recognize that fact. Service according to the gospel of ToMo III and his cohorts means that the lowly Ama-Ahret R&F JW serves the needs, whatever they are and regardless of the cost, of the governing body. And anyone other than them can be gone and be damned.
everytime a publisher moves congregations they have a confidential letter of introduction sent from one body of elders to the other .
this letter contains some very very sensitive information like if they had sexual problems or mental health problems or if they self harmed etc.
most people don’t know but they can request or insist on seeing this information through a freedom of information request .
@hoser
Loved the "scriptures" you included. I see what you did there.
2022 grand totals.
branches of jehovah’s witnesses: 86. .
number of lands reporting: 239. .
Wow! Amazing! 10,318 hrs per each new baptized JW. The equivalent of five years full time employment per each baptism. Pretty sad in my opinion, considering most of those are no doubt "yung wahns" who have been coerced into baptism by their parents.
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not sure if this is fake news or not..
From jw talk came this comment: "So like C----- mentioned, in recent years Serena does not appear to have been living a life as 1 of Jehovah’s people. But in fairness, she was never baptized. So we can view her in a positive way"
Yeah, see how that would work out if she were not wealthy, likely donating a large amount of $$$$$ to WT, or some poor, younger twenty something girl who was not a celebrity. The hypocrisy of the word fairness, and the way they are drooling on their shoes over her "baptism" is nauseating.
regular pioneers: 600 per year, 50 on average per month.auxiliary pioneers: 30 hours per monthauxiliary pioneers in march and april: fee reduced to 15 hours.
Because all that counts is that you signed up and your name was announced. It was and is all for show.
And THAT is it in a nut-shell.
With that lower hour requirement,,,they will make it sound like there will no longer be an excuse ''not to pioneer''.
And they will forget about the principle in Mark 12: 41-43 in their rush to condamn anyone who does not pious-sneer!
2023 will see a big push to get rank and file back to in person meetings and ministry.
they have opened a can of worms with zoom but what they really want is only in extreme illnesses cases can someone use zoom .
the only problem is they want everyone fully vaccinated which means if you didn’t go for your latest booster in the last several months then you are no longer fully vaccinated and just the same as someone who never accepted any shots right from the start.
I posted a comment on another thread about this very quote. " Therefore, it can er. . ." They used a qualifying term. "Can", which should not be confused with "Does." If you were to ask anyone of those obese buffoons if they DO err, they would deny, deflect, and likely DF you. The way they word things should always be looked at as if you were studying a professional illusionist. Don't watch what they are doing with their right hand, it's the left hand that you need to watch to see how the trick is done. Just my meager two cents worth.
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Thank you!
i read this in the public area of jwtalk, about a canadian case concerning reena virk, over 20 years ago..
“manjit, her father, got arrested by the police due to reena's accusation of sexual abuse.
he lost his job, many of his friends and almost his family.
Is it a "secular" story, or a WT "experience"?
If the latter it is likely massaged beyond recollection to fit a WT narrative, and nearly if not a total fabrication.
Young children are not very likely to make up stories about CSA, and not many abusers are going to abuse in the open.
