I trust more of you are getting the picture of pressure being exerted from the top. "Put that finger in the dike, gentlemen!"
Can you picture a CO with brains reading these articles? Getting blamed for not whipping the flock into shape?
Brrrrrrrrr.
Good point about the number facing judicial committees, HS--I think that percentage has actually grown larger. That's likely why the emphasis on reaching out to the "prodigal child." (What perfect smiles there are on the faces of the elder and his wife who shake the young man's hand and grab his elbow! Now how do they get him back into the hall?)
Not sure what you mean about saving them work. At least one GB member read my letters, because Ray cites them in his book, tactfully omitting my name so as to prevent cries of heresy even though the Society ASKED me to write honestly.
I love the wonderful well-turned Watchtowerese: "Should not parents, then, use every Scriptural method possible to help their prodigal minor come to his senses?"
What an awkward, positively wooden statement!
" ... Just as many hardened rebels have responded to Jehovah's loving invitation to come back, your prodigal son or daughter may well return to God's protective flock."
Don't hold your breath, Ted.
Maximus