As some of you may know, I have a close friend who is still a dub that I am the "godfather" of his son. I mean this in the most literal sense, since it is in his and his wife's will, that if anything should happen to them, I would become their child's legal and custodial guardian.
Anyway, I wento hear his second Minsistry School talk last night and I have a few observations about the meeting.
1. I was not aware that the #2 talk is now just a bible reading without an introduction or conclusion by the speaker. when did this happen?
2. The congo is located in a diverse mid to upper middle class neighborhood that surrounded on all 3 sides by lower income neighborhoods. There are two main halls that enables two separate congos to meet at the same time. I was very surprised to see that the spanish speaking cong was double the size of the english speaking congo.
3. The congo was made up of middle aged to senior citizen couples with no present children, or single parent families with children under 10.
4. Very few brothers at all, with many of the duties either being handled by very old brothers or sisters giving the number 4 talk in the main hall. In my old congo years age, we never allowed sisters to give the number 4 talk in the main hall.
5. There appeared to be a general feeling of malise or boredom throughout the meeting with the speakers at times answering their own questions because no one volunteered.
Could it be that many of the longsuffering dubs have "lost their zeal"? I strongly suspect the borg is being powered by the newer members and many of them are people lower on the social economic scale, new to theis country looking for a better way of life and under the dilusion that the dubs are a way to create a community, assimilate and attain a higher standard of life.
Any comments?