Posts by suavojr

This picture brings back some memories...
What happens when a 14 year old boy gets bombarded about how evil it is to feel a natural attraction towards the opposite sex?

First - You encounter the Robot from Lost In Space, yelling DANGER, DANGER! Second - You get more interested in sex. Third - You don't worry about anything. Your parents do all the worrying for you. It is hard to grow up with helicopter (JW parents) constantly forbidding a child from speaking to the opposite sex. My parents were always spying on me, and if I was seen just saying hi or laughing with a girl, then I knew my dad was going to lecture me with a list of scriptures and make me feel that I had committed fornication. This was a crucial point in my life, because when I was about 14 I sincerely contemplated suicide. The constant guilt lectures, not good enough pep talks, not being a true JW, don't date, God will kill you if you have premarital sex, etc… all of this pressure, made me want to end it all.

I have never mentioned this to my parents or any other person. I am grateful that God allowed me to feel his forgiveness through Jesus sacrifice and prayer was a key element to help me make the right decision.

(I chose life! and HOW WONDERFUL IT IS TO BE ALIVE!)

From early in life I have always felt God close to me, protecting me, guiding me, and in many crucial moments when I thought everything was lost, our loving father was present, providing me rest in the shadow of the Almighty.(Psalm 91:1)

A Christians’ life is a battle of faith; and I am no exception. Like thousands of others, I have been involved with the JW’s since my infancy and have always thought we were the only true religion. But I could not harmonize this reasoning with the great crowd John saw, how can it be a great crowd that no man could count? And yet we can count the amount of JW’s worldwide. How come Jesus spoke about weed seed among the good seed? and only true love would distinguish them (These types of questions have been with me since I was 12)

During my life, I have experienced a great desire to seek the freedom that accompanies the sons of God. But yet, I was taught I could not consider myself a son of God, only an associate or friend.

What has brought me to this crucial crossroad in my life? I am certain that the HOLY SPIRIT is in full action leading the way.

The Bible is a whole NEW book to me. I am grasping things in the past that seemed impossible. I am finding scriptures that I can't recall reading before.

These last 4 months have been an eye-opener, a revelation, an epiphany. Yes, the light does get brighter! But not in the sense of decoding a secret message hidden in Jesus words but in the sense of being able to grasp what is the secret of his will. […] to gather all things together again in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth. (Ephesians 1:9,10)

So this is a brief story about my life. How about you?

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I challenged a Dub out in service

by LisaRose in

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Loving sister passed away and guess what and elder said...?

by suavojr in

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the cycle continues.... two weeks ago a loving and fragile sister passed away due to her age and chronic health, she only had one son and 2 grandsons.

(she was the only jw in her family)when my wife gave me the sad news we immediately went over to the hospital to give some words of comfort to the grieving family.. .

what happened next was another cruel example of works for salvation vs. good deeds from love.

suavojr

Thanks for your kind words LoisLane looking for Superman

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Loving sister passed away and guess what and elder said...?

by suavojr in

jw
friends

the cycle continues.... two weeks ago a loving and fragile sister passed away due to her age and chronic health, she only had one son and 2 grandsons.

(she was the only jw in her family)when my wife gave me the sad news we immediately went over to the hospital to give some words of comfort to the grieving family.. .

what happened next was another cruel example of works for salvation vs. good deeds from love.

suavojr

Perhaps it's better that this as$ho!e continue doing the work of a rock and leave the job of helping those in need to humans like you.

SIMPLY PRICELESS

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The term: To disfellowship in spanish congregations...

by suavojr in

in the english congregations they used to announce that brother x has been disfellowshipped.

but in the spanish congregations the announcement was made using the word expulsado (spanish)= expel in english.

when i look up the word disfellowship, this is what i found:.

suavojr

Gladiator

Now I understand why we loveeeee the gossip