JW'S Hierarchy?

Question

What exactly is the Heiarchy of the Jehovah's Witness, Do you have struture in your church or can anyone become a minister and teach what he/she wants? Please explain in detail.

Answer 1

I actually asked a similar question a few months ago.

Here's the link

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkD8Icdtq3fN8lA5TS5kTlHty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20070802132748AA88rKz

Answer 2

God Almighty...by personal name Jehovah, is the Boss, Jesus is His ruling King.
There are 144.000 humans that were anointed to go to Heaven to share in the Kingly rulership with the Christ
Jesus MOTHER, AND APOSTLES were some of the first.
From the heavens, they work with the last of the anointed ones still on the earth to pass messages and bible interpretations to the rest of us. Oh yes, we do not teach personal opinion, we teach bible truths. We are all in agreement what is the truth from the bible. Our houses are different, our clothes, hair make up, even our living conditions are different, after all there are over 6 million of us. But our teachings and love of each other are the same world over.
First to congregation elders, and then to all the congregation.
ALL baptized witnesses male, female, young or old are ministers. We minister to the humans on this earth who are confused, afraid, or as Jesus said, skinned and thrown about

Answer 3

Each individual and family head is encouraged to maintain a personal relationship with God and Christ, so that he can maintain his faithfulness and continue to further divine purposes even if he cannot associate with fellow worshippers. Every individual must preach, if only informally to family and friends.

An unbaptized individual must qualify to become a "publisher" before he is permitted to participate in the formal ministry alongside Jehovah's Witnesses; a person who follows and preaches the Christ is a Christian. Typically after several months, a publisher will request Christian baptism; for which he must qualify (including by his unequivocal expressions of understanding and dedication). Baptism provides the Christian's ordination as a minister.

Perhaps 15 active Witnesses will be organized into a "service" or "study" group, and these meet at least once a week in a private home to consider bible-based material. Everyone is encouraged to participate and comment. When a congregation's territory is geographically dispersed, these Witnesses will generally work primarily with one another in the field ministry. Ideally, each group will have at least one appointed elder or ministerial servant ("deacon"), although many do not. Almost every "group" is affiliated with a formal "congregation".

A congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses is between 35 (at the extreme minimum) and 200 persons, depending on what is most convenient locally. Each congregation has a body of elders, and likely also ministerial servants. Local elders handle all local practical matters according to guidelines from their country's branch office. Nearly every congregation around the globe considers the same bible-based material each week, although it is presented with local audiences in mind.

At least twice each year, a "circuit overseer" visits each congregation (and unaffliated group) for a week of special activity. This full-time minister audits all congregation records and correspondence, works to further train local elders and servants, works to train and encourage local preachers, and gives special talks during and in addition to the normal schedule that week. The circuit overseer also handles any matters which local congregants wish to discuss with him.

Also twice each year, the circuit overseer arranges for two larger assemblies of perhaps ten or twenty congregations together (typically at a rented facility). This allows a special attention to spiritual "food" and encourages unity between congregations.

On an ad hoc schedule, a congregation may be visited for a week by a "district overseer" who may merely be training a new circuit overseer, be performing some other assignment in the area, or perhaps handling a serious matter in the congregation. Each year, each congregation attends a very large "district convention" which may have an attendance of several thousand or tens of thousands.

The work in each land is generally coordinated by either a "country committee" or a "branch committee", depending if the land has actual branch offices. Most branch offices include literature distribution facilities for bible-based publications, and some also have printeries and binderies to produce books, magazines, and other godly literature.

A "zone overseer" is a Christian elder who is trained to audit the work of branch committees and country committees, but these appointments are not permanent. The primary result is a thorough report back to the Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses.

The "Governing Body of Jehovah's Witnesses" performs a work similar to that of the first century governing body, who met in Jerusalem. The bible calls that ancient group "the apostles and the older men" and also "governors of you [Christians]" (see Hebrews 13:7 or its footnote).

(Acts 15:6,23) And the apostles and the older men gathered together to see about this affair. By their hand they wrote: “The apostles and the older men, brothers, to those brothers..."

(Acts 16:4,5) Now as they traveled on through the cities they would deliver to those there for observance the decrees that had been decided upon by the apostles and older men who were in Jerusalem. Therefore, indeed, the congregations continued to be made firm in the faith and to increase in number from day to day.


Like the apostles, Jehovah's Witnesses continue to acknowledge Christ Jesus as the actual Head of the Christian Congregation. The bible makes it plain that the Universal Sovereign is Jehovah God.

(Ephesians 5:23) Christ also is head of the congregation

(1 Corinthians 11:3) The head of every man is the Christ; ...in turn the head of the Christ is God.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.co.uk/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm

Answer 4

all place that are organized have structures but about knowledge all know more or less the same cause all of us recieve the same material and have the bible study for example this Week in our bible reading we read Daniel 7-9 we began this book two weeks ago and next week we will finish, it that book it is the time Jesus will last preaching and the time God´s kingdom was inactive, also tell the name of the firstson of God prior came to earth in Daniel 12:1

"And during that time Mi´cha·el will stand up, the great prince who is standing in behalf of the sons of your people. And there will certainly occur a time of distress such as has not been made to occur since there came to be a nation until that time. And during that time your people will escape, every one who is found written down in the book. 2 And there will be many of those asleep in the ground of dust who will wake up, these to indefinitely lasting life and those to reproaches [and] to indefinitely lasting abhorrence"

Michael the great prince will bring a great tribulation and will resurrect people in thre future .

Answer 5

We strive to follow the Bible principal, the head of the congregation is the Christ.

Any may attend, to become a baptised Witness one must show a working knowledge of the Bible and be willing to live according to it's standards.

Answer 6

The Witnesses blindly follow everything they are told to do from the Governing Body....That is passed down to the congregation Elders.

It is a known fact that no Witness leader has ever been to Seminary or any regular Long term school for their scriptural knowledge...It all comes down to them from the Governing Body...My father Is an elder, and he got his Gratification as a minister over a weekend class put on by the Witnesses...

Answer 7

to become elder the are certaib requisites in the bible if males fill that requisites then and have bible knowledge then they can be elder, women according to the bible can´t be pastors but they have privileges in the preaching.