How To Treat A Disfellowshipped Person

How To Treat A Disfellowshipped Person.

Straight From The Horse's Mouth.

Bangalore

Bangalore

Thank you for this.

I've been out for a long time.  Can anyone tell me when this book was published?

Lisa, this is from the "Keep Yourselves in God's Love" book published in 2008.

Thanks, Baltar.  So this is the current organizational procedure book?

No, Lisa that would be the OD book, "Organized to do Jehovah's Will".

This is a study book designed to outline proper JW behavior.

These references stand out much more strongly to JWs than anything else.  For a JW, fear of DF is much more scarey than death itself.

Disgusting

and to think the book is entittled "keep your self in god's love".... yes.. Keep yourself in God's love by ignoring your own family if they dare disagree with US.. Keep yourself in god's love by treating fellow humans, those who are supposedly your "brothers" and "sister" and spritual mothers and fathers as if they DONT EXSIST if they dare not think exactly like we tell them.. this is god's love and how you stay in it.

We really need a turd emo here. 

The head covering one really gets me.

These references stand out much more strongly to JWs than anything else.  For a JW, fear of DF is much more scarey than death itself.

This is a mouthful, so true. Its crazy when you think about it, that there's at the least thousands, if not millions of JWs who don't buy everything coming from the WT.  They don't have any fear of Jehovah punishing them because they don't accept the WT as the so called channel of God. What they fear is hurting their families and friends, and losing, straining, or damaging those relationships. They're not overly concerned with Armageddon, but they are concerned with maintining their family ties. It's really sick when you think about it. Just plain sick and dispicable. To think families are broken up and strained, all because an individual's views change regarding several old obscure white men and a token black in Bethel.

Another thing, considering how young people are when they get baptized, makes this all the more sickening. Teenagers making decisions that will affect them for the rest of their lives. A kid at 16 gets baptized, and his views change in his early 30s, and as a result he has the decision to make whether or not to hurt his family and friends, or live a double life with all the stress that comes along with it. You know, thinking back and reflecting on my own life, if I could trade in my decision to get baptized at age 16 for having a sex crime label placed upon me for being 18 and having sex with a 16 year old and getting charged with statuatory rape, I'd strongly consider it. I'd rather live with a the scarlet letter of a sex crime on my file for statuatory rape, than get baptized into this religion, which by the way wasn't done in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, but rather recognizing that this is God's spirit directed organization. They're a fraud.

It's a good thing for the organization that the Bible doesn't say anything about not mixing with governing body members with double standards.  By the way, I can but regret the lack of loving advice regarding what to do with a disfellowshipped elderly person who is alone in this world and can't look after himself.  On the other hand, Jehovah did provide advice about how to treat disfellowshipped children, even though the true religion does not baptize children.  Or does it?

What I found significant was the reference to the disfellowshiped minor child living at home. This means that a child was allowed to get baptised and then was subsequently put through the brutal process of disfellowshiping.  This shows the societies appalling attitude and lack of love and concern for the children that they railroad into baptism.