2006-11-07 15:31:21 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Contrary to one person who wrote an answer it is a forever thing. You are not allowed to talk to your parents, your family or your former JW friends. Trust me it has been a while since I got the boot.
2006-11-07 15:52:06 · update #1
Good Lord. You can get punted from the JW's?????
I didn't know that. Thats just weird!
May GOD richly bless you.
2006-11-07 15:35:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Disfellowshipped in May 1982 by the Corning , CA Congregation, for cause. The female wasn't my wife, at the time. Talk to my mother most every day. Constantly complain or talk down the witnesses, and yes, they will cut off contact with you, as you are also talking down to them.
I've been approached numerous times, over the years, by people who want me to join some anti-witness group or other. They tell me that I can say that I learned their beliefs were false, rather than the real reason.
Why don't I go back? Consider the comment made by Jane Fonda when she talked on the Tonight Show about how she, and many movie stars, hire mostly JWs to be their maids, gardeners, butlers, drivers, etc. They do so because JWs can't be bought.
When Charlton Heston asked her why she didn't become one, since she liked them so much, she said that she couldn't see herself living so close to the teachings of Christ as they do, and neither could he (Heston), even as Moses.
2006-11-08 03:59:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋
No, but why where you disfellowshiped? Below are reasons you could have been.
You who are disfellowshiped, make it sound like it's the fault of the organization, but it is your fault for not following Bible rules.
Who are most of these people? Some just hate the teaching of JW's, but many are disfellowshipped, apostates, a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion. Why did they leave or were disfellowshipped, here are some reasons:
Some of the offenses that could merit disfellowshipping from the Christian congregation are fornication, adultery, homosexuality, greed, extortion, thievery, lying, drunkenness, reviling, spiritism, murder, idolatry, apostasy, and the causing of divisions in the congregation.
Do you fall into this category?
2006-11-08 02:11:02 · answer #3 · answered by BJ 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
I wish they would throw my grown sons out! I wish they led a normal existence, not alienated from family members and not discouraged from going to college. They are very bright but so gullible! My ex husband got them into this sect before he abandoned his children when they were small. Since then, they have insisted on going to the Kingdom Hall. My boys are into replacement theology and many other things the Bible does not teach. I do not agree with them and want them to go to school so they will have nothing to do with me.They know who to call when they need money though, and it is not their dad. My ex is a Witness and he is sixteen thousand dollars back in child support arrears. I don't know what this organization teaches, but whatever happened to honor your father and mother? They have these crazy ideas that only the Witnesses will get life in paradise on earth and God will destroy everyone else. I asked them where in the Bible does it say that only Jehovah's Witnesses will be saved? They told me that Mother Theresa and Princess Di were not going to get life either because they rejected the Jehovah Witness religion when they were alive. Sounds far out to me.I wish this cult would leave my children alone! I don't know what they do to keep my two grown boys so brainwashed, but they read those Watchtower magazines like they were reading the Bible.I told them to forget the magazines and stick to the Bible. They will not listen. I love the Lord, I am not opposed to that. It is just this organization that seems to warp the minds of young people.
Too bad my ex husband did not follow the teachings of Jesus more closely, maybe he would have taken having three young boys to support more seriously instead of having to be chased all over the country for child support! His congregation and elders were sometimes well aware of his trying to elude child support. They did not counsel him or advise him to pay up! I know, because many times I would track him down to a certain congregation in an attempt to collect my much needed child support and would beg the so called elders to counsel him to step up to the plate and shoulder his responsibilities.When the kids were small they would cry over their father and I wanted him to at least call them and be part of their lives, so I would also speak to the elders to have him call the kids. The kids never got that call. He also was passing bad checks around. How come he was not disfellowshiped?I thought they were worried about their image to the outside world? I had to finish raising them on my own with no help from him. To this day, he does not call or attempt to see his children.
I can give you many examples of people like him. This organization seems to excuse some and not others.
2006-11-07 23:44:53 · answer #4 · answered by Marie 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Jehovah's Witnesses practice the Scriptural practice of disfellowshipping for unrepentance of such serious sins as fornication, drug abuse, stealing, and apostasy. Baptized Witnesses who join the military or publicly engage in worship with another religion are considered to have disassociated themselves from Jehovah's Witnesses.
Contrary to the misinformation of anti-Witnesses, it is quite possible to become inactive in the JW religion without becoming disfellowshipped. As long as one's lifestyle does not bring reproach upon the congregation, and as long as one does not advocate one's disagreements with the religion, the congregation has no interest in "investigating", exposing, and disfellowshipping an inactive former Jehovah's Witness.
For those who are disfellowshipped or disassociated, a primarly goal is to shock the person into recognizing the serious of their wrong so that they rejoin the congregation in pure worship. Since the primary bonds that are broken involve friendship and spiritual fellowship, it is well understood that family bonds remain intact. Parents, siblings, and grown children of disfellowshipped and disassociated ones sometimes choose to limit what they may feel is discouraging or "bad association" but that is a personal decision and is not required by their religion.
Former Witnesses who are disfellowshipped or disassociated are typically treated in accord with the Scriptural pattern explained in these Scriptures:
(1 Corinthians 5:11-13) Quit mixing in company with anyone called a brother that is a fornicator or a greedy person or an idolater or a reviler or a drunkard or an extortioner, not even eating with such a man. ...Remove the wicked man from among yourselves.
(Titus 3:10) As for a man that promotes a sect, reject him after a first and a second admonition
(Romans 16:17) Now I exhort you, brothers, to keep your eye on those who cause divisions and occasions for stumbling contrary to the teaching that you have learned, and avoid them.
(2 Thessalonians 3:6) Now we are giving you orders, brothers, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the tradition you received from us.
(2 Thessalonians 3:14) But if anyone is not obedient to our word through this letter, keep this one marked, stop associating with him, that he may become ashamed.
(2 John 10) If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, never receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him.
(Matthew 18:17) If he does not listen to them, speak to the congregation. If he does not listen even to the congregation, let him be to you just as a man of the nations
Becoming baptized as a Jehovah's Witnesses is not a trivial step. At a minimum, a student must demonstrate months of regular meeting attendance and public ministry, then must himself express the desire to be baptized. The candidate then spends hours answering hundreds of bible questions wherein he expresses both a clear understanding and personal conviction regarding Jehovah's Witness teachings in at least three separate interviews with three different elders. The candidate must vocally agree to be baptized in front of hundreds or thousands of eyewitnesses, and must be publicly immersed in water. This is not a momentary emotional decision by an unreasoning child. Dedication as a Witness required hard work and determination at the time.
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/19880415/article_01.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/19970101/article_01.htm
2006-11-08 09:57:27 · answer #5 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
I know a girl that was disfellowshipped by JW's after they found out she was drinking and using cocaine. When she turned up pregnant even her family wouldn't have anything to do with her.
2006-11-07 23:44:05 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
you don't forever, they just put you on a review kind of thing...the local Kingdom Hall stopped doing that because they were losing their witnesses. My cousin was a pregnant teen and they did it to her, they have been trying to get her to come back for years.
2006-11-07 23:48:23 · answer #7 · answered by melanie 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋
count yourself lucky
2006-11-07 23:35:27 · answer #8 · answered by Robert K 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋