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Another JW email circulating...
by Elsewhere 34 Replies latest jw friends
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hideme
I got an JW e-mail too...
Subject: An amazing Distric Convention experience
Tears and goosebumps. Someone not even in the truth recognizes importance of being at assembly.
Would love to be informed of the follow up. Subject: An amazing DC experience
Hello just got back from our DC we had an experience that I believe is
one of the best I,ve heard in quite a long time so here it goes.
We had approx. 5000-6000 thousand in attendance, this was in
Huntsville Alabama.
( This is most likely not word for word but it is very close)
A young sister( I believe about 11 or 12) was in the field service
with the DC tract work, she came to this door and offered the tract to
this man he took the tract looked at it and said that this really
sounds interesting and that he would like to come, he then proceeded
to ask this her, how is everyone able to take Friday off from work?
She responded by telling him that everyone asks their employer for
that day off, he responds to her and says, what if the employer
doesn't allow for the Friday off, she responds, then they just quit
there jobs and go anyway, (everyone chuckled at this point) so the
householder says, OK, I'll ask my employer for the day off and if he
says no then I'll just quit, because I really want to go and hear what
is to be said. When the household goes back to work and proceeds to
ask for that Friday off he also tells his employer that if thats not
going to work then he was just going to quit( imagine the thought of
the employer) well his employer tells him ,just wait a minute that
can't happen you are too good of an employee to just quit, so I am
going to do you one better, I am going to give not only Friday off but
also Thursday so you can make all the needed preparations necessary to
attend all 3 days. He was there all 3 days. WOW (everyone clapped
very loud and long time) Now the speaker says brothers it gets even
better,so everyone stopped clapping to hear the conclusion of this
experience. Well the sister went back to the householder to make
arraingements to save him a seat and meet up with him at our
convention , he asked her if it would be allright if he invited a few
of his friends and relatives, the sister of course said yes and asked
how many so she could have enough seats
WELL HOLD ON TO YOUR SEAT
ALL 3 DAYS WOW isn't that wonderful, this little sister says oh my
I CAN"T SAVE THAT MANY! He says I know, but thats just fine we will
find our own. So all 30 of them made hotel reservations and was able
to come all 3 days. Well you think the clapping was loud and long
before, well honey it rocked the house when the speaker ended this by
saying to all, WOULD WE LIKE TO SHOW OUR FEELINGS FOR ALL 30 OF THESE
ONES BEING HERE WITH US.
Can you just imagine the congregation this sister goes to , the
follow up will deffinitely be interesting. -
Jim_TX
"...the sister went back to the householder to make arraingements to save him a seat..."
"...asked how many so she could have enough seats..."
So... they now allow/condone/mention-from-the-platform the practice of 'seat saving'???
When I was a JW, they discouraged this, and only those who were considered 'non-compliant' saved seats (usually done by placing songbooks, bibles or other litter-ature in the seats).
Regards,
Jim TX
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under_believer
I'd like to point out that everything that happened to the guy in that original story, when he started leaving the Catholic faith and becoming a Jehovah's Witness, all the negative reaction from his friends, the terrible ways he was treated, all that would be visited upon him tenfold if he decided to leave the JW's.
The Witnesses like to say how horrible it is how people are treated when they study with and get baptized as Witnesses, but they do the exact same thing to people who want to leave them, too. -
BizzyBee
Sorry I threw up a little bit in my mouth........it was too much like being there...........