Why is it that Jehovah's Witnesses can have three conferences a year, attended by all their members in the

Question

World, almost 1000 conferences a year all over the world, but other religions only have yearly conferences, attended only by select few members from each church, and generally, only in the U.S.?

As a cab driver, I frequently transport passengers in town for religious conferences. The cab drivers hate it when JWs are in town because they don't go out to the night clubs/bars, or shopping in the upscale clothing areas, like the other religions. I hear the same stories on the cab driver network, from other cities around the world. Some tourism groups have tried to get places like Kemper arena in KCMO, to stop renting space for the JW conferences, because they don't contribute to tourism.

Do the other religions not want all their members to attend religious conferences? Wouldn't it benefit them for their members to meet other members, from all over the region, and world. on a yearly basis?

ILuvMe:
Some of my teenage customers have a pool going on how long it will grow in a year. I usually shave it off every 3-4 months. This is five months growth from a shave. They also shaved my head and donated it for making wigs. I had to buy my first razor when I was 12.

pangel:
I didn't say I hated it, just that other drivers do. I like everyone, except bigots. I get along with everyone and even compliment the 200lb man going to the gay bar wearing a dress that that should have been burned as an effigy to bad taste.

Answer 1

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/library/jt/article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/library/w/2004/6/1/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 2

This a sore concern for the cult. they are instructed from the Watchtower that they are 7 million solid yet that's notably unlikely. The 2008 Yearbook is consistent with self-suggested club figures for 2006, the main recent 12 months available. that's the foremost,'SELF suggested'. The Watchtower has those days inflated their club count variety to comprise inactive, disfellowshiped and lifeless members. There rather at the instant are two times as many former Jehovah's Witnesses as there are energetic ones with hundreds leaving each and each month. while the Jw declare that the numbers of baptized JW are turning out to be this might nicely be a misrepresentation. Baptisms at assemblies is in many cases commonly family member infants who've grown up in the cult. The JW are dropping members and are on the decline. case in point Japan has lost over 600 congregations however the cult claims in an strengthen in JW in this u . s . a .. In western worldwide places the JW are shrinking particularly an instantaneous consequence of the internet and the liberty of concepts. when you consider that 2004 the lack of donations and or gross sales into the cult has brought about the Watchtower to take drastic measures to maintain itself financially solvent. The headquarters of the Watchtower stated as the DUMBO complicated is placed in Brooklyn, long island. when you consider that 2004 the Watchtower has been merchandising off a lot of its properties to non-public traders by way of fact it may now not have the money for to maintain or paintings tension them. The cult has additionally been slowly transferring all its operations to Walkill, long island considering's greater decrease priced to function and paintings here. that is been suggested that the cult might fullyyt circulate out of Brooklyn in the last decade if it may not supply up the finacil bleeding from the lack of funds. God Bless!

Answer 3

SBC here. We do it all the time. Usually at least once a month within the local Association. A few times a year at the state level, and yearly on the national level. We have several missionary outreach organizations that help overseas missionaries keep in touch with each other, family, etc.

Answer 4

I'm sure you must hear all manners of opinions about Jehovah's witnesses. But they are nice people and no one can deny that. The next time there is a convention or an assembly in town why don't you go along. The meetings are completely free and nothing will be forced on you. Enjoy it and don't be swayed by the negative ideas of others, judge for yourself. I'm sure you'll enjoy it.

Safe driving.

Answer 5

You got a good point there Papa Bear. Such meetings would unite the church GREATLY! There would be an awsome atmosphere of 'belonging'. People with a common way of life and interest SHOULD assemble internationally - it will certainly bring them closer together! :]

Answer 6

Lets face it papa bear.
You're the 200lb man in the dress going to the gay bar.

Answer 7

i am a little confused about this...
you hate it when they come there .. yet you are wondering why other religions dont do the same
i think this is a sneaky way to big up JWs and belittle others


ok thats cool then ... am i forgiven ? lol
just in the way you said it , you didnt make that clear

Answer 8

tends to be the more "extreme" forms of religion that have mass gatherings.

Also maybe some of the big religions don't want to risk it in case an embarrasing amount of people actually show up

Answer 9

I saw yes. I have been to more than one of these conferences in my life at one time. It astounded me that so many different people came to that one spot. There was thousands, also where can you go in this world, and leave you PURSE on your seat and not have to worry about it being there when you got back.

Answer 10

The Jehovah's Witnesses was begun by Charles Taze Russell in 1872. He was born on February 16, 1852, the son of Joseph L. and Anna Eliza Russell. He had great difficulty in dealing with the doctrine of eternal hell fire and in his studies came to deny not only eternal punishment, but also the Trinity, and the deity of Christ and the Holy Spirit. When Russell was 18, he organized a Bible class in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. In 1879 he sought to popularize his aberrant ideas on doctrine. He co-published The Herald of the Morning magazine with its founder, N. H. Barbour and by 1884 Russell controlled the publication and renamed it The Watchtower Announcing Jehovah's Kingdom, and founded Zion's Watch Tower Tract Society (now known as the Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society). The first edition of The Watchtower magazine was only 6,000 copies each month. Today the Witnesses' publishing complex in Brooklyn, New York, churns out 100,000 books and 800,000 copies of its two magazines--daily!