God is all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iouZYYzQEjU
God loves you - and he needs your money. So, it is no coincidence that assemblies run at a deficit.
i've recently been at an assembly here in romania and there was an announced they were running a 10,000 euro deficit and urging all attendees to donate more money besides the already 5k has was donated during that day.
i really don't understand these things.
it's their own assembly hall.
God is all-powerful, all-perfect, all-knowing, and all-wise, somehow just can't handle money!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iouZYYzQEjU
God loves you - and he needs your money. So, it is no coincidence that assemblies run at a deficit.
the sky is so dark here in the south of the uk.
could be armageddon starting.. or then it could be dust particles in the atmosphere..
the sky is so dark here in the south of the UK. could be armageddon starting.
or then it could be dust particles in the atmosphere.
No Armageddon. The official answer is that an angel farted.
when i was a jw, i relished explaining my beliefs and why we had the truth!
lol.
todays witness has no clue , in my opinion..
How could they explain their beliefs when they don't even know what the beliefs are.
last thursday meeting was the verbal begging bowl item.
in which having told the audience that wt doesn't ask for money... proceeded to then ask for money.. among the usual scriptures cited "honor god with your valuable things" etc was also the widows mite story "she dropped in two coins of little value..".
and it occurred to me, two coins of little value in the uk would be two one penny coins!
I remember when I was accounts servant I would always leave the loose change in the box so the other congregations could fuss with the coins. The other accounts servants also had the other idea. Thus, there were always a few coins that remained indefinitely in the contribution box. Our actions showed that we considered these coins of little value and more of an annoyance than what they were worth.
i'm inactive here to the local jw's as i have faded.
i've been slandered and all that, shunned by some but not all, but the elders basically leave me alone.
i still run into to people all over though.
perfect ending - green bananas. I wonder if he got the pun.
a friend of mine has contacts to a family with several circuit overseers and special pioneers.
they have good connections to bethel.. he told me that the latest rumor from bethel states that the cos should be abolished in their present form.
they have also recently begun to take cos back to bethel.. over the same channel i have already heard of the car fleet program and that the dos should be abolished.. has anyone else already heard of it?
The value of the CO is that they provide an audit of the congregation from the perspective of the self-interests of the mothership. I don't think you can discount that, nor do I think that this function is easily replaced.
Imagine what would happen with a renegade congregations with no central control. This is a worst-case but very realistic scenario for the Watchtower.
so this is a topic that seriously boggles my mind and please correct me if i'm wrong.
to me, the jw definition of the overlapping generation teaching is that the lives of the anointed from 1914 overlap with the lives of the anointed right now.
david splane used the example of fred franz and how he finished his "earthly course" in 1992 but while he did, he had a lot of "contemporaries" that outlived him and are currently living today.
Ask a JW and you will hear something like: The deep things of the bible are not easily understood.
due to watchtower flagging the mike & kim videos on youtube for copyright, youtube is giving them 6 days before they are shutting down their entire youtube channel.
can you help with a mass downloading program and then reuploading them on a mirror ?
would hate to lose all those good videos!
I find Mike and Kim moderately entertaining. What is the current status of their situation. Based upon their last post it appears that they are fighting the charge.
elders meet with regular pioneers, special pioneers, and field missionaries program for december 2017 through january 2018 s-211-18-e 9/17.
Very sad. Yes. this brother should have pursued higher education. I hope it is not too late.
elders meet with regular pioneers, special pioneers, and field missionaries program for december 2017 through january 2018 s-211-18-e 9/17.
What a dreadful situation. You are penalized for being successful. I thought the who point was to bring in converts so they do not die at Armageddon.