We make the cooked Jello pudding and call it witness pudding at home. I like chocolate the best.
2016 Regional Convention - Invite First Look
by pixel 50 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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OUTLAW
Who May Attend?
Everyone.You won`t be charged admission,and no collection will be taken.
Because..
They Beg For Cash Right from the Assembly Stage..
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LOYALTY! I just got a quote from someone about"loyalty".. DataDog? A 94 WT.. March, I believe. I am not at home, so...... It was talking about bringing reproach on Jehovah's name (like going to the police about pedophiles).... What was the article about? Loyalty!! CYA! -
blondie
(2 Kings 18:13-16) . . .. 14 So Hez·e·ki′ah the king of Judah sent to the king of As·syr′i·a at La′chish, saying: “I have sinned. Turn back from against me. Whatever you may impose upon me I shall carry.” Accordingly the king of As·syr′i·a laid upon Hez·e·ki′ah the king of Judah three hundred silver talents and thirty gold talents. 15 Therefore Hez·e·ki′ah gave all the silver that was to be found at the house of Jehovah and in the treasures of the king’s house. 16 At that time Hez·e·ki′ah cut off the doors of the temple of Jehovah and the doorposts that Hez·e·ki′ah the king of Judah had overlaid and then gave them to the king of As·syr′i·a. (NWT)
Has the NWT online and explanations back ten years
*** w87 7/15 p. 6 Building Faith to Move Mountains ***
Consider just one example of how archaeology has confirmed the Bible record. At 2 Kings 18:13-15, we read: “In the fourteenth year of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and proceeded to seize them.” At that time “the king of Assyria laid upon Hezekiah the king of Judah three hundred silver talents and thirty gold talents.” In confirmation, during the 19th century archaeologist A. H. Layard discovered what is called King Sennacherib’s Prism. Its cuneiform text reads: “As for Hezekiah the Jew, who did not submit to my yoke, 46 of his strong, walled cities, . . . I besieged and took. . . . I added to the former tribute, and laid upon him as their yearly payment, a tax . . . 30 talents of gold and 800 talents of silver.” A remarkable corroboration of the Bible record, differing only in the amount of the silver tax!
*** w69 3/1 p. 157 Answering the Challenge to True Worship ***
What actions did king Hezekiah and his people take in the face of the Assyrian threats, having what meaning in modern times?
As a delaying tactic King Hezekiah at first paid some tribute. (2 Ki. 18:13-16) In like manner Jehovah’s people today, when threatened by nationalistic forces, move cautiously in preserving their God-given right to true worship. Under such conditions they do their public witnessing in inconspicuous ways and make return visits on interested persons and conduct Bible studies with them.—Matt. 10:16.
To thwart the enemy invader, King Hezekiah and his people stopped up the springs outside Jerusalem and built a tunnel that brought water underground into Jerusalem. (2 Chron. 32:1-4; 2 Ki. 20:20) Likewise the “faithful and discreet slave” has protected the flow of spiritual waters of truth. By means of worldwide publishing activity, whether aboveground or underground, it has made this spiritual provision available to God’s people despite bitter opposition.
Further, King Hezekiah went into the temple to pray and consulted the prophet Isaiah. (2 Ki. 19:1, 2) Similarly today, God’s people find strength and comfort in times of stress in association with fellow worshipers at Jehovah’s spiritual temple. (Heb. 10:23-25) They also inquire of the “faithful and discreet slave” organization as to the right course to take.—Matt. 24:45-47.
*** w68 3/15 pp. 170-171 par. 9 True Worship Under Challenge ***
of King Hezekiah, Sennacherib the king of Assyria came up against all the fortified cities of Judah and proceeded to seize them.” In warding off the immediate threat, Hezekiah agreed to pay tribute to Sennacherib, and he even cut off the overlaid doors and doorposts from Jehovah’s temple, in order to make this payment. (2 Ki. 18:13-16) No doubt this was part of Hezekiah’s theocratic war strategy, a move to gain time, and to put him in a better position to grapple with the enemy. Likewise, today, there are occasions when Jehovah’s witnesses have to move cautiously in preserving their God-given right to true worship. In strongly nationalistic countries, open house-to-house or magazine witnessing is not always possible, and Jehovah’s people may have to yield this door of service to the enemy. However, by incidental witnessing, park witnessing, back-calling and studying with those known to be interested, and by other means, they continue their precious service to Jehovah, often at great personal cost.
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macys
I can not wait to go to the 2016 District Convention of Jehovah's Witnesses, said nobody.
Loyalty = code word for "Give us your money!"
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HOW AMAZINGLY DELUSIONAL IS IT!!!!
Publishers spend thousands of hrs and get get someone down the street to come to 1 meeting - Yes handing out flyers (by the way cultish looking ones) indiscriminately is going to convince someone to drive an Hr or more to go to some Convention with people they usually hide from?
Can there be a more colossal waste of time?
Can there be a more disrespectful way to waste hrs of people's lives doing this?
If you got a 3% success rate (good rate for a business mailer) then you could justify it maybe.
But NO ONE goes to conventions because of a crap flyer. NO ONE goes to meetings cus they missed out on that but they will see what its about locally.
It's not a Joke - its a horrible and well thought out way to control the lives of JWs.
JWs pay the society with hrs of there life, then must report that time, and then are pressured to do more.
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By the way - now its a Free Public Event?
Really? What happened to it being The Public Talk?
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Doubtfully Yours
The hotel stay, the restaurants afterwards and the company will be very nice. However, there will be a lot of blah, blah, blah in between.
Too bad I cannot miss the Friday session and save a vacation day from work.
DY
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Where is the bullet point advertising for this feature:
An afternoon spent listening to old men ramble on about how you dress, what movies you watch, the evils of pornography, the need for more contributions, using too many paper towels in the restroom and the need to do more, more, more.......
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7 billion people are about to be toast - and our topics are Porn, Education is Bad, Vampires are Bad.
Thats our Trinity these days.
Just what Christ would be talking about.
