New Awake - JWs are Great! (page 5)

Heaven

Well, there is quite a bit missing from those lists. Where's the blood doctrine? And the 1914 doctrine? And the generation doctrine? And the door to door ministry doctrine? ... just to name a few.

Billy the Ex-Bethelite

For structure, they should have listed that "apostolic succession" is not a scriptural teaching and is condemned by JWs. All are brothers with no divisions of clergy/laity.

For doctrine, they should have listed that the JW "governing body" are the successors of the first century apostles and deserve unquestioning loyalty by the laity-like sub-sheep class... or God will kill you.

moshe

I have noticed that JWs don't witness to their neighbors- they let other JWs do that and they keep a low profile. Now, the Mormons actually begged to rake my leaves, clean my gutters, mow my grass in order to create goodwill and fulfill the commands of Christianity to do good works.

Nobody listens to JWs opinion's of themselves. Even Charlie Manson could say his mother thought he was a great boy.

JW GoneBad

'They are globally united in their faith and Bible-based beliefs'. Not united as far as the blood issue is concerned, it seems!

It was our field service groups' turn to feed the visiting speaker before sending him off this past Sunday. He is a seasoned elder in the area. There were a few other elders in the group. Because someone in the group has an upcoming medical procedure, the topic turned to the blood issue. The visiting speaker mentioned that the hospital liaison committees (HLC) are complaining that there are too many rigid jw patients who are not going along with the changes toward accepting blood fractions. Doctors and medical staff, he said, are calling the brothers in to get their patients to cooperate more with these new procedures. Interestingly, the other elders said they had heard the same thing.

For those of you who may not know. The HLC was established a few years back to assist jw patients get better cooperation from the medical staff regarding bloodless management and other blood related issues. NOW, it is the doctors and nursing staff that are calling in the HLC to get the jw patients to cooperate with them. And the HLC are frustrated with the whole thing, especially with the uncooperative jw patients.

The HLC are hoping that the c.o., d.o. and boys back at bethel will put something together (like a part on the circuit assembly program) to adjust everyone's thinking and get more to accept blood fractions. No doubt this is not only a local but global problem. Where is the UNITY there?