the watchtower meeting (this congregation meets on sat) that i just listened to via phone conference was cut 10 minutes short to have a letter read to all the congregation.
here are the highlights:.
- the governing body realizes that the pressures of this system of things are getting heavier on his people.. - just like the governing body of the 1st century, we do not want to add additional burden to you either.
As usual we "apostates" knew "what was afoot" before the "faithful ones" attending the meetings. Anyone ever hear this: " No you have to be at EVERY one, the meetings are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO important! If you don't attend you'll miss out on all the NEW information. Oh my God you can't miss a single meeting!"
brzfst
just got back from the assembly the bookstudy will be part of the ministry school service metting as of 2009. the cost of fuel is 1 reason.
to many elders taking bookstudys time could be better spent on other things.
family heads can now spend more time with there familys.
I could be wrong, but this is a change related to the $13 million payout to those molested recently. Book studies in private homes are usually more relaxed with people sticking around to socialize. ( Had a book study in my home for 3 years.) Pedophiles can more easily have an opportunity to seek out victims. "Hey, I need to use your bathroom, ok?" As the walk past kids bedrooms...etc. Lawyers see lawsuits on the horizon…better safe than sorry (not for the victims ,of course, but for the pocketbooks of WTS). If it was because of gasoline prices the idiots would cancel the 3 day conventions. Just my opinion.
brzfst
comments you will not hear at the 04-27-08 wt study (march 15, 2008, pages 3-7 )(balanced).
review comments will be in red.
q 18. why is a yielding spirit appropriate within the family?
Thanks as always girl, nice work.
brzfst
there will be a huge announcement after the watchtower study on the 27 of april.. for what it's worth, this was just sent to me anonymously.. randy.
www.freeminds.org.
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Public talk was cut from 45 minutes to 30 minutes so the WT study will also be cut to 30 minutes. In addition because of the dwindling attendence everyone will be seated on the platform except the WT conductor and the reader...they will be seated in the front row.
brzfst
"what will be the sign of your presence and of the conclusion of the system things?"--matt.
q) 6 what does revelation chapter 12 help us to understand about christ's presence?
q) 8, 9. who would recognize the sign of christs presence and understand its meaning?.
Thanks Blondie.
brzfst
why is today the only day of the year when i feel guilty about having left the jws?
it's memorial day and i didn't go.
my last memorial was in 2006. last year was my first non-attendance.
Could never understand the reasoning that from one side of the face you're told the M-day is ONLY for the annointed and everyone else is an OBSERVER. Show me that in the Bible. There is an ELDERS school ONLY for elders....PIONEER school ONLY for pioneers...why not an M-day ONLY for the annointed? How many observers attended Jesus' last passover?
I realilize there's a soft shoe dance why the NON-ANNOINTED are OBLIGATED (orders of the G-body) to be there..... heard that song for 20 years. Why feel guilty if as a loyal JW Jesus did not invite you?
brzfst
just because i know it won't be read tonight, anyone who is going to the memorial this evening should seriously consider john chapter 6:53-57 before hand.
go ahead, research it in your little watchtower cd's... they will attempt to explain it away in with it's "broader" meaning and not its "literal" application.
the truth is apparent to anyone with open eyes, jesus instructed anyone who wanted to have a relationship with him to participate in communion, (yes you do need to evaluate your heart as 1 corinth 11:27-29 says, but this was not told to prevent you from partaking if you were not "annointed" it was said to make sure you knew the seriousness of your relationship with christ) the verses in john were not told to annointed ones, they were told to a crowd of jews, the "john class", the "other sheep".
53 Accordingly Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to YOU, Unless YOU eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, YOU have no life in yourselves. 54 He that feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood has everlasting life, and I shall resurrect him at the last day; 55 for my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. 56 He that feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood remains in union with me, and I in union with him. 57 Just as the living Father sent me forth and I live because of the Father, he also that feeds on me, even that one will live because of me.
08:10 am pst on thursday, march 6, 2008. by tammy mccoy.
a legal battle is looming over riverside county's need to protect children, and people's right to practice religion without government intrusion.
a prosecutor wants leaders of a jehovah's witnesses congregation to testify about what a murrieta man accused of molesting two girls told them.
Welcome 9328737 thanks for posting this,
brzfst
sometimes even the media gets one right.. .
80-year-old john wayne fan puts attacker in hospital .
10:06 am cst on friday, february 15, 2008. .
Thank's for posting ...I saw this news story.....this is one brave man that possibly saved himself because he had protection, and wasn't afraid to use it.
brzfst
my brother called me late on the 13th to let me know that a friend of ours - who is no longer a jw - called him and said that his dad was being flown by helicopter to the hospital because he collapsed at home and had no pulse.
they took my friend's dad off life support on valentine's day and he died.
well, i was debating whether or not to go to the funeral because i have no desire to hang around a bunch of jws or set foot in a kindumb hall again.
This is the same story about my friend's funeral talk. The speaker spent less than two minutes talking about what a good person he was, the rest (30 minutes) was recruitment crap. His non-JW relatives were appalled, How in the hell do they think anyone not familiar with their coldheartedness would join after that kind of "memorial"? I mentioned how upset the relatives were at the lack of RESPECT for the deseased to someone active, and his reply was, "So what's the problem?"
brzfst
