by purrpurr 20 Replies latest jw friends
I note on here the feedback from the currently ongoing conventions that the GB are heavily trying to guilt and shame any brothers who are not MS or elders. I agree with most posters who reckon this shows just how thin on the ground they are for MS and elders but... My question is
How comes that even though they are so desperate they still will not allow women to fill those roles? I mean how desperate would they have to get???
a woman?
But you are crazy!!!!!
Who will wash the plates?
Pretty desperate for that to happen, but they will need a constant supply of young bethelite starlets to appear in their WT productions.
Brother shaming isn't that new though, it's been happening forever.
The difference now ( as you mentioned) is their supply of brown-nosers is drying up.
Paul is somewhat contradictory in his thinking, I thn. I mean, look at Romans 16:1:
"I am introducing to you Phoeʹbe, our sister, who is a minister of the congregation that is in Cenʹchre·ae." (NWT)
The word here for "minister" is the same word used at 1 Tim 3:8 for "ministerial servant."
There was a time when there were not baptized men in some congregations, usually rural not near bigger cities. Sisters would officially work with the CO to administer things such as reports, literature/magazines, etc. But they were not appointed. I was in one congregation with unbaptized teenage boys, unbaptized husbands that come to the meetings. Eventually after 5 years, a pioneer couple moved in and one sister's husband was baptized. She trained the new brother and turned over all the administrative things and no longer moderated a book study. One older teenage boy got baptized and took over more things.
I visited a congregation in northern Canada that had 2 elders but no qualified brothers to be MS etc. So a sister didi the sound and accounts. Many elders feel it is above them to do these MS or below things.
You gotta be done lost yo mind. WHAT would happen to the Good Ol' Boys' Club if they allowed females to join up and pollute and corrupt the holy shmoly macaroni, God blessed special Brotherhoodly Bubba Wubba Boodly Woodily Males Rule and Females Drool Mikeephone holdin' favored above all other mediocre lesser humans, Elder-ificks??!!!
signed,
Marina Marina the Fat Ballerina
