Just got a call from a friend who told me only one person got baptized today in a ciruit assembly in NYC. This is in a powerhouse circuit that had tremendous growth 10~20 years ago but is now seeing a steady decline to the point that congregations are starting to merge because so many are leaving.
What could be the cause of this decline? hmmmm...
One person got baptized at Circuit Ass. today (powerhouse circuit)
by thecarpenter 32 Replies latest jw friends
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thecarpenter
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lovelylil
Now that is Good News!
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desertlily
Good Day Everybody:
Just a few Scriptures to share, and let the reader use discernment regarding ALL "religions", as opposed to worshiping Jah and Jesus in spirit and in truth. John 4:24
Revelation 18:1-8
1 After these things I saw another angel descending from heaven, with great authority; and the earth was lighted up from his glory. 2 And he cried out with a strong voice, saying: “She has fallen! Babylon the Great has fallen, and she has become a dwelling place of demons and a lurking place of every unclean exhalation and a lurking place of every unclean and hated bird! 3 For because of the wine of the anger of her fornication all the nations have fallen [victim], and the kings of the earth committed fornication with her, and the traveling merchants of the earth became rich due to the power of her shameless luxury.” 4 And I heard another voice out of heaven say: “Get out of her, my people, if YOU do not want to share with her in her sins, and if YOU do not want to receive part of her plagues. 5 For her sins have massed together clear up to heaven, and God has called her acts of injustice to mind. 6 Render to her even as she herself rendered, and do to her twice as much, yes, twice the number of the things she did; in the cup in which she put a mixture put twice as much of the mixture for her. 7 To the extent that she glorified herself and lived in shameless luxury, to that extent give her torment and mourning. For in her heart she keeps saying, ‘I sit a queen, and I am no widow, and I shall never see mourning.’ 8 That is why in one day her plagues will come, death and mourning and famine, and she will be completely burned with fire, because Jehovah God, who judged her, is strong.
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lawrence
Great News! That was 1 person too many....
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Poztate
The WT might have to resort to secretly hiring actors to come in and get baptized just so this part on the ASS program didn't look too lame.
They wouldn't do that...would they.......
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Panda
Well, they are known for low brow theatrics already, so why not hire real actors. After all it isn't really a lie if you believe its true.
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fullofdoubtnow
Just the one? Well. one's too many, but it's still good news.
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desertlily
Good Day Everybody:
Just another thought, but most JW's will believe this to be a "sign" that the worldwide preaching work is coming to completion, with Jehovah's blessing, in spite of the fact that several billion fellow human beings have yet to be reached with their 1914 flawed "version" of the "good news". Matthew 24:14
Much Christian Love to All Truthseekers
sis Lee
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greendawn
That is good news it confirms what we often hear about the WTS being in a state of decline in its own homeland, it seems they are not just rumours. The big lies can not be hidden for ever.
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mkr32208
We will see this religion fall within our lifetimes!