when rutherford assumed the presidency of the watchtower society he instituted series of sweeping changes to the teachings and practices of the bible students.
some of these changes were at complete odds with what had been taught previously.
a key example was the elevation of the watchtower society as "god's visible organization on earth".
Dont overlook a fact the US branch is well aware of:
numbers in the US are down. Way down. if you take the "foreign field" (non native english english speakers) out of the equation, the branch feels there is a net decrease of 5% in the last five years or average of one percent a year. From the horses mouth on that..... They know they are losing people and are ok with it as long as those that stay are ferverant worshippers
new letter say the co visit is now one night a week, tuesday, to allow for family worship to continue uninterupted.
Ah good someone share already :)
new letter say the co visit is now one night a week, tuesday, to allow for family worship to continue uninterupted.
Yep, true. I tell no lie. Someone will share soon i think
new letter say the co visit is now one night a week, tuesday, to allow for family worship to continue uninterupted.
new letter say the co visit is now one night a week, tuesday, to allow for family worship to continue uninterupted
the constant references to 'window washers' as something derogatory.. i understand the context of it-that most jws are uneducated, and unqualified to do much more.
but sometimes the references seem snobbish, almost mean-spirited.
one poster, on another thread, essentially referred to window washers as 'losers'.
Being a plumber is fairly high pay blue collar job, just as an aside
i often times wonder what happened to certain bethelites that i ran around with during my 1990s tenure there.
while there are still a few left there, the greater majority of them aren't there for various reasons (marriage, disillusionment, left the borg, etc).
a couple of cats i wonder about - there was one brother who i believe was from kansas, who got his fingers cut off in a printing press.
Lonnie and gina taylor.....?
just read a post on jwsurvey about the new donation arrangement.
congregations are to pledge a monthly amount to be sent to the society to fund the building of assembly halls and kingdom halls.
congregations who already have a loan from the society will no longer have to pay back the loan but the amount pledged should not be less than the current monthly repayments to the society.
This is confirmed now. The letter has been posted as juan described on jw org
letter to be read at next weeks service meeting.
Letter to be read at next weeks service meeting
http://jehovahstrumpet.com.
i read the cat baptisim article and i doubled over laughing.
one time when i was a kid i asked why my kitty couldn't go to the kh with us and my mom told me that animals were perfect and didn't need to go to the kh.. .
Lol... I just found this one On christian maturity.... It does read like sd-7!
http://jehovahstrumpet.com/naoko-family-presses-on-to-christian-maturity/
have you ever come across words that resonate with you?
it doesn't have to be a great gem of wisdom, just something that is meaningful to you.. please share, and if you want to, tell us why it's meaningful to you.. here is something that made me nod when i first read it.... .
"fortunate are those who have learned to see, in the wild things of nature, something to be loved, something to be wondered at, something to be reverenced, for they have found the key to a never-failing source of recreation and refreshment".
"you're going to find that many of the truths we cling to depend greatly on our own point of view."
