1) No more private book study arrangements. The book study host will ask themselves "why?"
Yeah, there are a few members who love being the limelight by having this arrangement
in their home. But so many are elders and elderettes who would love to kick it out of
thier home. Many are pressured to do this, and the dubs use their toilet paper, dirty their
dishes and drink their coffee, but occasionally bring a snack for others to share. Most
hosts will be grateful.
2) No more congregation book study overseers. They will ask themselves "why?"
Most overseerss will be grateful that they can kick back and listen while someone else
conducts. A few will hate it, but feel so wonderful that the FDS has addressed the
problems of busy lives and made things so much better for faithful JW's to serve.
3) No more Monday evening goodie nights
That's a small bright spot on an otherwise gloomy sky. The vast majority are
grateful to have another evening free- free at last, free at last.
4) No more shepherding in the conventional way
7) No more Saturday bookstudy groups for field service
8) No more bookstudy groups assigned to clean the Kingdom Hall
I don't know about working these out. They will have to keep the groups assigned to
individual elders for the cleaning and shepherding and hounding and there may still be
some organization by groups to field circus. I am almost positive that the Borg will
spin this toward the elders that they have even more responsibility toward their group
with this change, but they will allow it to cause more slack.
5) Coverage of the new bookstudy likely to be reading the questions with no reading of paragraphs
I bet not. They like to read to reinforce the doctrines. I bet they just cover tiny segments at
a time, taking more than a year to finish a book. That way, they don't need to cover books
again and again, since they will no longer cover material faster than they print new stuff.
6) The bookstudy contribution box will be redundant
Wasn't it virtually useless before this change. Most dubs put in at the main meetings.
9) No need for the service overseer to visit each bookstudy and encourage them
I found this was always like the contribution box. It was mostly useless anyway.
10) No more congregation bookstudy picnics!!!
no "CONGREGATION" or "CONG. BOOK STUDY" PICNICS. The Borg never liked
this type of fun, as someone always worried about members having sex or heavy petting
in the woods or alcohol causing someone to punch an elder in the mouth, or simply having
"sisters" get into a catfight.