Imagine that! Three hours a week helping people! Time spent with young lads as Scouts or Cadets or whatever. Time volunteering at a local after-school group teaching football or some useful skill. Time volunteering at a local hospital. That could be a real witness: not the do-you-want-more-head-knowledge kind of witness.
You know this is where local churches are just so much better witnesses than any of your fear-bound cult group braindead TWI types. They have an actual building in the local community, which represents permanent investment into the community. They have members who own homes in the community, unlike TWI who are not allowed due to debt policy. They pay property taxes. Churches many times host for free community groups such as scouts or intramural sports. Church members and leaders are there as permanent fixtures, not volunteer Corpse who move around at TWI's whim.
All in all your average church has TONS more investment in any local community than anything TWI can muster. And that's why they have more membership, more excitement, etc.
All TWI really is is some boring tapes from HQ weekly, a structure dictating how many times to hold your Bible study and what to study, a magazine, some basic boring fundamental classes, and a local despot trying to build their little fiefdom. And a bunch of puffed up worthless idiots with holy titles acting important. All encased in fear, politics, and bribery.
Jesus said by their fruit you know them. What is TWI's fruit? What does TWI's HQ literally produce? Over-edited, vanilla teachings and articles all based on the collaterals, which themselves were the publishing of VPW's weekly sermons and writings. Dictatorial control over leadership. Directives on how to do everything. A fear-based ministry. A ministry that says it's based on "It is Written", but instead functions on "It Is Position". Who says something is infinitely more important than a Bible verse. And the people at the top have over years been exposed having worse morals than just about any professing Christian out there.
You know, people in TWI SHOULD say - "I'm not going to fellowship tonight, I'm going to my son's soccer practice." Or blow off the stupid branch meeting to do something to REALLY help someone rather than going and listen to some self-important idiot blather on out of the collaterals for the 500th time.
But they don't, because they are sheep, not men and women. They are blind, deaf, dumb, and numb. They want to be led, fed, babied, coddled, pampered, called, told they are great, etc. They aren't. They are despicable, and they don't even take care of their own families. They are worse than the Christian middle class in a community. They are spiritual vagabonds and nomads, begging for table scraps, and flagellating themselves with mental whips to keep themselves doing "good works", while in reality they are just serving the devil in the form of an egomaniac disguised as a spiritual authority.
They should WAKE UP. There is no new light in that ministry. There is no movement of God. Even the sexual predator leaders could at least pretend like they were getting revelation and do something exiting once in a decade or so. Even the flashy lie could at least pass for a movement of God at times, and if enough believed it, God could honor it. But now - it's just death warmed over on toast. God doesn't work in those leaders - they've compromised their integrity too many times and screwed over too many people. The burning flax has gone out. The light is gone. You can find more genuine Christians per square foot in ANY local church in your community.
Does TWI still require attendance at lots of meetings in a week?
If they would just suggest people got involved in their communities, spent three hours a week inputting into the areas where they live, instead of three hours attending the third fellowship meeting that week or whatever, the people would have the opportunity to make an impact and thereby live their lives as a witness. Then there wouldn't be the need for the hard sell knocking on doors, waylaying people in the shopping mall, or whatever.
Imagine that! Three hours a week helping people! Time spent with young lads as Scouts or Cadets or whatever. Time volunteering at a local after-school group teaching football or some useful skill. Time volunteering at a local hospital. That could be a real witness: not the do-you-want-more-head-knowledge kind of witness.
Twinky, my dear, you have no future in the corps whatsoever. Are you saying it would be better to be known as the nice neighbors instead of those weirdos? Talk like normal people instead of saying your kids "prevail" in school? And you're suggesting we actually do something productive instead of sitting around pretending like anyone cares about what Rosie thinks? Oh missy, you better renew your mind if you hope to get anywhere in TWI leadership! Now go read the Blue Book until you're blue in the face. Oh, and send TWI some money. Make it a lot. In fact, skip the stupid book and just send us cash. We'll mail you a 10 (or 20 or 30) year certificate and special "super spiritual lady" pin of your very own.
No need to thank me... But I would like a mint cut in four pieces please and make it snappy! ;)
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You know this is where local churches are just so much better witnesses than any of your fear-bound cult group braindead TWI types. They have an actual building in the local community, which represents permanent investment into the community. They have members who own homes in the community, unlike TWI who are not allowed due to debt policy. They pay property taxes. Churches many times host for free community groups such as scouts or intramural sports. Church members and leaders are there as permanent fixtures, not volunteer Corpse who move around at TWI's whim.
All in all your average church has TONS more investment in any local community than anything TWI can muster. And that's why they have more membership, more excitement, etc.
All TWI really is is some boring tapes from HQ weekly, a structure dictating how many times to hold your Bible study and what to study, a magazine, some basic boring fundamental classes, and a local despot trying to build their little fiefdom. And a bunch of puffed up worthless idiots with holy titles acting important. All encased in fear, politics, and bribery.
Jesus said by their fruit you know them. What is TWI's fruit? What does TWI's HQ literally produce? Over-edited, vanilla teachings and articles all based on the collaterals, which themselves were the publishing of VPW's weekly sermons and writings. Dictatorial control over leadership. Directives on how to do everything. A fear-based ministry. A ministry that says it's based on "It is Written", but instead functions on "It Is Position". Who says something is infinitely more important than a Bible verse. And the people at the top have over years been exposed having worse morals than just about any professing Christian out there.
You know, people in TWI SHOULD say - "I'm not going to fellowship tonight, I'm going to my son's soccer practice." Or blow off the stupid branch meeting to do something to REALLY help someone rather than going and listen to some self-important idiot blather on out of the collaterals for the 500th time.
But they don't, because they are sheep, not men and women. They are blind, deaf, dumb, and numb. They want to be led, fed, babied, coddled, pampered, called, told they are great, etc. They aren't. They are despicable, and they don't even take care of their own families. They are worse than the Christian middle class in a community. They are spiritual vagabonds and nomads, begging for table scraps, and flagellating themselves with mental whips to keep themselves doing "good works", while in reality they are just serving the devil in the form of an egomaniac disguised as a spiritual authority.
They should WAKE UP. There is no new light in that ministry. There is no movement of God. Even the sexual predator leaders could at least pretend like they were getting revelation and do something exiting once in a decade or so. Even the flashy lie could at least pass for a movement of God at times, and if enough believed it, God could honor it. But now - it's just death warmed over on toast. God doesn't work in those leaders - they've compromised their integrity too many times and screwed over too many people. The burning flax has gone out. The light is gone. You can find more genuine Christians per square foot in ANY local church in your community.
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Twinky, my dear, you have no future in the corps whatsoever. Are you saying it would be better to be known as the nice neighbors instead of those weirdos? Talk like normal people instead of saying your kids "prevail" in school? And you're suggesting we actually do something productive instead of sitting around pretending like anyone cares about what Rosie thinks? Oh missy, you better renew your mind if you hope to get anywhere in TWI leadership! Now go read the Blue Book until you're blue in the face. Oh, and send TWI some money. Make it a lot. In fact, skip the stupid book and just send us cash. We'll mail you a 10 (or 20 or 30) year certificate and special "super spiritual lady" pin of your very own.
No need to thank me... But I would like a mint cut in four pieces please and make it snappy! ;)
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