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Really? Pressured to leave work. Seriously? I can give you countless of JW articles that encourages finding a job and keeping it and it's benefits (e.g. Awake July 8 2005 pp. 1-11). I admit, even some elders in some congregation may impose their personal opinions on you, but that is what it is - their personal opinion. That have nothing to do with being a Witness. Like Derek mentioned, there's no compulsion in serving God.
Quote“They convinced me that a family was not needed as the doomsday was close at hand. And when I realized that this was a delusion, it was late,”
Who are they? Elders? Administrative center? or JWs as a whole? Well, I see JWs getting married all the time; From the governing body to the last of a publisher.
20 hours ago, JW Insider said:Yet these same elders, including my father, were repeatedly required to reprimand and finally even disfellowship a brother and some of his relatives who, as a painter and handyman, could not always maneuver his boss into letting him off the crew that once a year was assigned to paint and provide upkeep to an abandoned army base.
Required? by who? As much as I can hardly see this to be true, I'd give you the benefit of the doubt. There is no such instruction to disfellowship any brother on such basis. The worst is the brother not being able to handle certain responsibilities in the congregation.
Please, next time, get your facts right. For all you know, that wasn't the basis for his disfellowshipment
- Penny Corbin and bruceq
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August 31, 2017 BOE Re: Procedure for Handling Certain Cases of Wrongdoing
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You're right. But not just them; everyone else who is part of the association is considered a family. This letter was addressed to just the Australian Witnesses. It makes a lot of sense to notify the ones who manage the record of those people. I think they have reasons for such action besides just being a family.