What will be the Next Flip Flop?

by Quarterback 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  DesirousOfChange

  I can't see them changing disfellowshipping. If anything, they are tightening up.They're on a "Remain Loyal to Jehovah" theme right now. ~ Ding

  I think we've already seen that change. You no longer have to be DF or DA to be shunned. If you're inactive (weak) and not attending meetings (irregular/ or inactive), then you have already been labeled as no longer being "good association". You'll be excluded from Cong functions and invitations for lunch out or social events will cease.

  When you quit attending meetings, instead of the elders or your (former) good friends rushing to "rescue you from out of the fire", they will apply 1 John 2:19 to you: "They went out from us, but they did not really belong to us. For if they had belonged to us, they would have remained with us; but their going showed that none of them belonged to us."

  Once again, it's YOUR FAULT.

  Doc
  
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  ttdtt

  At some point the JW website will have a CHAT on it for preaching - like the Mormon website has.
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  Vidiot

  The WTS will never truly let up on its hard-line policies.

  From their POV, they don't dare.
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  James Mixon

  The End Days, NO one knows when it will arrive. Live your life and hope for the best, in the

  mean time keep up the work and continue to send in your dollars.

  They will stop the carrot dangling because they realize no one believe the BS...
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  Phizzy

  tdtt has it right I guess, they seem to have copied the Mormon Site from the start of their own Site.
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  blondie

  The WTS already counsels jws to avoid the spiritually weak unless it is at the meetings.

  w01 10/1 pp. 13-18

• How Can You Help a “Prodigal” Child?

17 What about a youth who is not disfellowshipped from the Christian congregation but who has become weak in faith? “If one member suffers,” wrote the apostle Paul, “all the other members suffer with [him].” (1 Corinthians 12:26) Others can take an active interest in such a youth. Of course, a measure of caution is needed, since a spiritually ailing youth could adversely influence other young ones. (Galatians 5:7-9) In one congregation, well-meaning adults who wanted to help some youths who had become spiritually weak invited them to gatherings to play popular music together. Though the youths readily complied and enjoyed such sessions, their influence on one another eventually led them to cut their ties with the congregation. (1 Corinthians 15:33; Jude 22, 23) What can help heal the ailing child is, not social gatherings with no spiritual direction, but association that helps him to cultivate a taste for spiritual things