the memorial invitation from Jehovah's Witnesses? did you go?? u should have, it was wonderful, i didnt get in invite because i am a jw, i actually gave out the invites. but did you go? how did you like it?
2007-04-06 14:52:26 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The most significant "Memorial" one could observe is, of course, the Memorial of Christ's death. It is sometimes called "the Last Supper" or "the Lord's Evening Meal".
(1 Corinthians 11:23-25, NWT) The Lord Jesus in the night in which he was going to be handed over took a loaf... Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” 25 He did likewise respecting the cup.. Keep doing this... in remembrance of me.”
(1 Cor 11:24, 25, NEB) "Do this as a memorial of me.”
Christ Jesus himself personally celebrated and explained the significance of that Last Supper to his followers (see Matthew 26:26-29). Apparently Jesus Christ established the occasion to supercede the Jewish Passover, which occurs after sunset on the 14th of Nisan (a month of the Jewish calendar).
(Luke 22:14-16) At length when the hour came, he reclined at the table, and the apostles with him. 15 And [Jesus] said to them: “I have greatly desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer; 16 for I tell you, I will not eat it again until it becomes fulfilled in the kingdom of God.
Sadly, it is only a minority of professed Christians who follow the BIBLICAL pattern for the Last Supper which was established by Christ himself. Sadly, most of Christendom ignores Christ's celebration and instead follow unrelated human traditions which purport to honor Christ, but in ways unconnected with what Jesus Christ established.
Like the former Passover, those Christians who commemorate the Last Supper have also done so on the date corresponding to Nisan 14, which generally falls between late March and mid-April. Interestingly, Christians in the centuries immediately after Christ's impalement were sometimes called "Quartodecimans" which literally mean "fourteen-ers"
There are fundamental differences between the Memorial which Christ Jesus instituted and the so-called "Easter" which Christendom adopted from pagan worship of the Anglo-Saxon goddess Eostre (or Oestre). While most Easter celebrations merely repackage pagan fertility festivals and concentrate on eating, decorating, and frivolity, the Last Supper focuses on the value of Christ's sacrifice and the sober obligation of Christianity.
(Matthew 15:6-9) You have made the word of God invalid because of your tradition. 7 You hypocrites, Isaiah aptly prophesied about you when he said, 8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, yet their heart is far removed from me. 9 It is in vain that they keep worshiping me, because they teach commands of men as doctrines.’”
Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/lmn/index.htm?article=article_08.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/rq/index.htm?article=article_11.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20041215/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20011115/article_02.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20050101a/
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/
2007-04-07 00:03:59 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was invited, sort of. I am Witness, but spend much time taking care of my Dad. The various brothers and sisters make sure we are taken care of, including making sure we knew where the memorial was. They also made sure there was parking set aside for those with disabilities. It was a wonderful evening.
2007-04-10 02:07:41 · answer #2 · answered by Ish Var Lan Salinger 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Didnt get one and i wouldn't go anyway. JW pulled in my driveway a few years ago and ran over my dog. We have the invisible fence up so he can run around the back yard and instead of pulling where the rest of the cars were, these idiots pulled all the way past running over my dashund. No apology from them nothing.
2007-04-06 21:56:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
I did get one but did not go. It is because I am a witness of Jesus. Based on what is said in Deuteronomy 13 and 18, I shouldn't have.
2007-04-08 08:37:10 · answer #4 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I went and received some cool gifts like a free door knocker, a free door bell, some welcome mats, and a great book on how to use a kid in a suit as a prop.
2007-04-06 21:57:14 · answer #5 · answered by Swamp Thingy 1 · 1⤊ 3⤋
I didn't get one, I passed them out. And, yes, I did go, and yes, I liked it alot.
2007-04-08 12:33:22 · answer #6 · answered by Sergeant Lauren 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Didn't get an invite.
So maybe next time.
2007-04-06 21:57:30 · answer #7 · answered by The Answering Peanut Butter 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I got one, and I thought "why the hell would they give me this?" because I'm not Christian, or JW... or any other religion.
2007-04-06 21:55:47 · answer #8 · answered by * 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
No invite...would not have gone anyway.
2007-04-06 21:56:03 · answer #9 · answered by fade_this_rally 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
i did try and get invited..I DIDNT take it...and I shouldn't have gone anyways....why are you people sooooo damn pushy?
2007-04-06 21:56:36 · answer #10 · answered by kristina43 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋