Latest "Shun Your Family" Statement - Jan 2013 Study WT

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  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    Solomon alluded to it yesterday in a thread, I found the online Large print PDFs here, not sure where the regular version is yet. Here are the full paragraphs, grab your barf bags

    19 On the other hand, if you choose the path of resentment
    toward Jehovah, you will distance yourself from him.
    Really, what your beloved family member needs to see is
    your resolute stance to put Jehovah above everything else
    —including the family bond.
    So to cope with the situation,
    be sure to maintain your own spirituality. Do not isolate
    yourself from your faithful Christian brothers and sisters.
    (Prov. 18:1) Pour out your feelings to Jehovah in prayer. (Ps.
    62:7, 8) Do not look for excuses to associate with a disfellowshipped
    family member, for example, through e-mail.
    (1 Cor. 5:11) Stay absorbed in spiritual activities. (1 Cor.
    15:58) The sister quoted above says, “I know that I must stay
    busy in Jehovah’s service and keep myself in a spiritually
    strong condition so that when my daughter does come back
    to Jehovah, I will be in a position to help her.”

    20 The Bible says that love “hopes all things.” (1 Cor. 13:
    4, 7) It is not wrong for you to entertain the hope that your
    loved one will return. Each year, many wrongdoers repent
    and come back to Jehovah’s organization. Jehovah does not
    begrudge their repentance. On the contrary, he is “ready to
    forgive.”—Ps. 86:5.

  • Justitia Themis
    Justitia Themis

    marking

  • baltar447
    baltar447

    Ugh this newest pile of trash is even more disgusting and controlling.

  • krejames
    krejames

    Makes me angry. That is all.

  • panhandlegirl
    panhandlegirl

    Looks like they continue to put the screws to the r/f. They want to keep them busy so they will not think about what they are being asked, commanded to do. I really can't understand parents who refuse to have anything to do with their young, I mean those in their young adulthood. I could not have done it. I would just have to be disfellowshipped. What a sick cult!

    PHG

  • wha happened?
    wha happened?

    They really are an insecure bunch of old farts aren't they? Good gosh.

  • Theocratic Sedition
    Theocratic Sedition

    Well if there was any question as to which direction this organization was headed, there's your answer.

    Jaracz +1, Reasonable JWs 0

  • blondie
    blondie

    It seems that the faithful are not listening.................or obeying

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    PHG- Good catch there. I didn't notice the "do not isolate yourselves" line along with stay absorbed. Obviously they want people to replace their family with people in the congo.

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    PHG- Good catch there. I didn't notice the "do not isolate yourselves" line along with stay absorbed. Obviously they want people to replace their family with people in the congo.

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