I remember very few of the details, of when, where and exactly what took place, however a few years ago I was told the story about three elders that were walking together and the middle
elder was struck and killed by lightning. The other two elders went to his house to help out his wife and discovered 'apostate' material in their home. This very stupid story circulated
amongst midwest congregations and everyone attributed the lightning strike to Jehovah 'taking care of business'. Now, not for a second do I believe any of that story, but I was amazed
at how much faith the local witnesses could put into an urban legend.
Did any of you hear this story or a similiar one?
I do have a second one that I witnessed myself, but am amazed at what the local witnesses felt was the cause.
In the midwest at the district convention,, I witnessed our local elder have a anxiety attack or breakdown about 2 minutes into his 'talk'
He had to leave the stage and the back-up speaker took over. The reality is, this elder had a drinking problem, a depression problem and who knows how many other problems.
After that 'talk' he slowly faded away. Many of my family members to this day believe that this elder was a bad person and that jehovah caused this anxiety attack as a way to
'cleanse the congregation' or 'take care of business' Not for a second do I believe that either,, he merely had an anxiety attack from personal problems.
My question is,, what off the wall, strange JW urban legends have you heard where j-dubs feel that jehovah directly intervened such as my two examples.