the wts has announced the usual handbill invitation "campaign" for the conventions this year.
i haven't seen a copy but i assume that it will be similar to the one for congregation meetings and from previous years.
the usual 30 per publisher allocation.. i seriously wonder about the efficacy of these campaigns.
OTWO: Hmm, interesting. I never considered the cost savings angle.
Another possibility: The handbills create a time urgency for going out in "service" and ringing those doorbells before convention weekend comes around. In other words, it's a motivational tactic. The real purpose of the handbills may have nothing to do with them being read!
GLT
i have never gotten a good answer for this questions from any other jw's other than "everyone was of the annointed back in the first century" or "we are showing our respect for the arrangement" or some other nondescript comment.. even the notion that we "celebrate" the memorial is not accurate since the "celebration" part is limited to 8 or 9 thousand people and the 15 million or so that attend are merely observing or watching.. is there some other biblical support for people to observe the celebration ???
in all my life as a jw, i still don't quite understand the significance of it from a biblical persective.. rub a dub .
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The practice of observating and not partaking contradicts the Gospel. By rejecting the Lord's supper, "observers" are publicly refusing Christ's offer of eternal life. John chapter 6 quotes Jesus stating that His supper is for all who would be resurrected and have eternal life:
(48) 'I am the bread of life. (49) Your fathers ate manna in the desert and they are dead; (50) but this is the bread which comes down from heaven, so that a person may eat it and not die. (51) I am the living bread which has come down from heaven. Anyone who eats this bread will live forever; and the bread that I shall give is my flesh, for the life of the world.' (52) Then the Jews started arguing among themselves, 'How can this man give us his flesh to eat?" (53) Jesus replied to them: 'In all truth I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you. (54) Anyone who does eat my flesh and drink my blood has eternal life, and I will raise that person up on the last day. (55) For my flesh is real food, and my blood is real drink. (56) Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I live in that person. (57) As the living Father sent me and I draw life from the Father, so whoever eats me will also draw life from me. (58) This is the bread that came down from heaven; it is not like the bread our ancestors ate: they are dead, but anybody who eats this bread will live forever.'
The message is clear: eating the Lord's meal is the mark of all who believe, and the path to eternal life. So, what is your choice: partaking of the Lord's supper as He told us to do, or turning your back on Jesus in the name of a man-made organization?
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http://thecomicscomic.typepad.com/thecomicscomic/2009/07/10-movies-so-bad-theyre-funny-is-troll-2-really-the-best-worst-movie.html.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/richpub/syltguides/fullview/3lkg20ifs1i24.
"plan 9 from outer space," 1959, in hd.
http://msn.careerbuilder.com/jobseeker/careerbytes/quiz.aspx?sc_extcmp=js_qz21&qid=qz0021&siteid=cbmsnhp_qz21>1=23000&cbrecursioncnt=1&cbsid=429eba69e3a04a89b4c1dd6f22c701c5-320147265-r4-4.
7/10.. sylvia.
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(I think I'll go puke now...)
GLT
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7/10.. sylvia.
9/10 (Ka-CHOO!)
LOL! If you don't laugh at that, you're taking things way too seriously.
a wedding is in the works for my dad!
he's been very lonely since my mother's death.
the bride's in her 80's, and a lonely jw who lost her husband a few years back.
Good for them! Old people need love, too, and it's great that they found it.
@sacoulton: Nice job, it looks just like the real thing!
christians: is military service wrong?.
imho, there are times when individuals/famlies/communities/states/nations must take up arms to defend themselves.
otherwise, they will cease to exist.. .
Once upon a time Dwight, the son of a devout Bible Student/JW, rebelled against his mother's religion and went to West Point instead of dedicating his life to J. F. Rutherford's organization. Later he led the Allied armies that defeated Hitler's Wehrmacht and liberated the concentration camps where Witnesses were being held. How many more innocent lives would have been lost if General Eisenhower did not take up arms to oppose an evil madman?
GLT
i was having a conversation with a younger guy at work - he barely knew who the who was....... he was telling me that he recognized the songs but thought they sounded pretty rough.. i told him that i wish he could have seen them even 10 years ago - i saw them live in 2000 and roger still sounded awesome, and pete was still.....pete!.
the real big loss was losing the ox - john entwistle was so important to that band.
he was amazing live....... moon was a huge loss, but after je passed, i really wish they would have stopped performing live as the who.. here is an awesome taste of him in action.......rip ox............ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvl39lbzgmw.
I hooked to TV up to the stereo, and cranked it up to Who-worthy levels (nobody else at home, so I could do that). It was a great show, but just isn't the same without Keith Moon and John Entwhistle. The only real downside was having to fit the show into halftime, that short set seemed like just an appetizer!
GLT
