I like it much better.

If they just cut the WT study down to 45 minutes, then, on the weekend, the entire meetings would be about an hour and a half total including songs and prayers. That is PLENTY.

Then the next step would be to reduce the weekday meetings to once per week.

This could easily be done by having the Bookstudy once per month on a given night and the other 3 weeks that night would be for the Ministry School and Service Meeting.

Rub a Dub

In my mind, I'm wondering why you or anyone even goes to the meetings any more?

My last meeting was the last half of the memorial, 2002 and I have never gone back and no regrets.

It seems the longer you stay with thier system the harder it is to leave. Like folks that want to quit smoking, you need to go cold turkey. Just get out and never look back.

I think that reducing the meeting times is a good step in the right direction.  We have 2 Theocratic schools, but there are so many cancelations that in the summer months it is reduced to only one. They would be better off to only have one school in our congregation.

For many years I would sit through a Circuit/Elders meeting where we would discuss why the Bookstudy is weak in attendance.  Many times I would bite my lip, and refrain from asking, why is this a national problem as well? If the rest of the country is having a problem with it, then what is the problem? They don't seem to get it.

I know that Heb.10:24,25 is used to justify our meeting attendance.  The soc claims that the 1st century christians had the custom of attending their meetings, so we should.  But, they only had the practice of attending once a week at the synagogue, not the burden that is imposed on us in this time.