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by booby 11 Replies latest jw friends

  • booby
    booby

    Does anyone know of any info that tells the back story on this article. Why the parents were disfellowshipped, did the woman disagree with the reasons leading to her disassociating herself, etc.

    **w884/15p.26par.3DisciplineThatCanYieldPeaceableFruit***

    3 'But,' someone may ask, 'is it not harsh to expel and then refuse to talk with the expelled person?' Such a view surfaced in a recent court case involving a woman who was raised by parents who were Jehovah's Witnesses. Her parents had been disfellowshipped. She was not, but she voluntarily disassociated herself by writing a letter withdrawing from the congregation. Accordingly, the congregation was simply informed that she was no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses. She moved away, but years later she returned and found that local Witnesses would not converse with her. So she took the matter to court. What was the outcome, and how might this affect you? In order to understand the matter properly, let us see what the Bible says about the related subject of disfellowshipping.

  • Titus
    Titus

    what is that 884?

  • booby
    booby

    Sorry about that. not sure what happened ***w884/15p.26par.

  • booby
    booby

    Yikes!! supposed to be w88 4/15 p.26 par. 3

  • booby
    booby

    bttt still curious

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    Don't have any info on the article, but it would be interesting to know if she DA'd before the big change surrounding Ray around 80/81. Prior to that a DA meant you just quit, no shunning enforced....but then they of course changed the rules to catch Ray with Gregerson (who was DA'd I believe) and DF him.

  • nelly136
    nelly136

    that example used to be on the watchtower.org site cant remember if it went into greater detail and not sure if its still on there

  • nelly136
    nelly136

    http://jehovah.to/gen/legal/state/paul.htm

    link to the court case, gives the background

  • nelly136
    nelly136

    LG yup

    In 1975, Paul's parents were "disfellowshiped" from the Church. According to Paul, her parents' expulsion resulted from internal discord within their congregation. The Elders of the Lower Valley Congregation told Paul that she and her husband should not discuss with other members their feeling that her parents had been unjustly disfellowshiped. That advice was underscored by the potential sanction of her own disfellowship were she to challenge the decision.

    Sometime after the Elders' warning, Paul decided that she no longer wished to belong to the congregation, or to remain affiliated with the Jehovah's Witnesses. In November 1975, Paul wrote a letter to the congregation withdrawing from the Church.

  • booby
    booby

    thank-you nelly136 - interesting

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