bible study report form s-3.
today i uploaded a new article onto my blog.
this article addresses a document that was used perhaps more often than any other among jehovahs witnesses.
Once those forms became obsolete --the bible studies in the congregation suddently rose. I suspect that without control, some made studies up to make themselves look good.
I am wondering if they discontinued those forms because most countries have stricter privacy laws.
the rapture was supposed to happen.. i didn't make the cut i guess.. jeff.
I am still here!!!!!!!!!
i post on a couple of forums and read and lurk and all that stuff.. a theme that seems to be gaining momentum is about how the gb are 'tightening their grip' and 'becoming more cultish'.. i don't read the publications anymore and oddly i read extracts of them on the forums.. punk is babbling now.............sorry...................my questions are (sorry if they're a bit long.
sorry if i sound like satan: 'is it really so?
' but then i am a mentally diseased apostate).. 1. are the gb really tightening their grip or is it just the same as it ever was........but..........we just notice the propaganda more now we're out?.
a family relative (mid 70 years of age) telsl me all the time that this is not the organization that he knew in the fifties and early sixties. There is a lot more control now than ever before.
He was lamenting that "witnesses have to keep their opinions to themselves or else be labeled as one who dares to question the governing body"
Personally , I think it was always restrictive. I only remember a time in the very late 70s and early 80s when there seemed to be a relaxing of rules. There were a number of talks on using one's conscience and thinking ability. This was the time when the rank and file got a different light on "sacred service"
Whereas before sacred service was only the preaching work- during this relaxed time, "sacred service" entailed all aspects of one life.
This lasted a very short time and then it went back to the old way.
After reading Ray's book I realized this was a time Ray's Franz influence.
The only thing that is more prevalent is almost a worship for the governing body members. The congregation is beat over the head week after week with reminders that the governing body wants this and wants that. It nauseating.
i've posted several times over the past 6 months about my daughter, ali's severe heart failure due to a virus.
it has been a roller coaster ride.
recently her leads from her pacemaker and defibrilator became displaced due to strong coughing due to bronchitis.
This is very good news!!! you must be soo relieved.
hi to all the brothers and sisters and friends who are using this site.
this is just to introduce myself.
my name is dan edmund, and am a fellow witness from australia.
How can someone come here and not know what this site is all about...
Dan wanted a little publicity for his little book. Oh well!! I guess it got it.
once upon a time, an elder approached brother discouraged in the back of the kingdom hall.
he said, "we've missed you at the meetings.
is there some problem?".
Nicely put!!!
I am waiting when prayers will be end in the name of the"governing body". It will come
this is a question for those brave souls who, for whatever reason, attended this year's memorial: .
who else was there?
was there any evidence that the witnesses are still attracting a large crowd of "newly interested ones" (to use their awful phrase) or even complete strangers drawn in by the door-to-door work.. i hear lots of comments about how poorly attended some of the weekly meetings in the halls have now become, so i'm curious about what you guys may have seen when you attended in the past day or so.
Your mother sounds really cute
this is a question for those brave souls who, for whatever reason, attended this year's memorial: .
who else was there?
was there any evidence that the witnesses are still attracting a large crowd of "newly interested ones" (to use their awful phrase) or even complete strangers drawn in by the door-to-door work.. i hear lots of comments about how poorly attended some of the weekly meetings in the halls have now become, so i'm curious about what you guys may have seen when you attended in the past day or so.
Let's see:
Size of congregation: approx. 90 publishers
Distributed: approx. 15,000 invitation
Attendance: 140
Breakdown of attendace:
Disfellowshipped: 8
Family members that come every year: 20
Bible Studies : 10
people that came from invitation work: approx 2
What a flop
I would not say that this year's memorial was a success in my area.
well, i walked in and got the love-bombing before i even made it past the foyer.
everyone's missed me, everyone's thrilled that i came, blah, blah, blah.
to be fair though, there were a few there that i do miss so it was nice to see them.
Home from the memorial too. two weeks were spent deliving 15,000 tracts and 1 person from the territory come. The rest were the usual crowd, the disfellowshipped, family members that make the effort year after year to come to this event. What a farce!!!!!!!!!!!!
wondering if any poster has lupus and how they cope.
thankx.
Hi Cog! i've resent the PM :)
