Posted by ros [ros] on November 01, 1999 at 11:47:48 {2gTL9dbN6kAPLKlRwd1.7/SY5I9NtE}:
In Reply to: To GB / Christ's return posted by WotM on November 01, 1999 at 10:07:28:
Due to the volume of questions for "GB", may I suggest you review his "Open Letter to the Governing Body" ( http://www.hourglass2.org/wwwboard/messages/181612.html ) in which I think he addressed your question:
1. Blood Transfusions: We must not only review this issue, but we must revisit the very premise of it and come to new and better conclusions.2. Total Shunning for disfellowshipped persons: This is of no benefit to us to have a policy of total shunning. We can still disfellowship, but make the policy more in tune with the Bible.
3. 1914: Get rid of the whole idea and start over.
4. Admit our past mistakes, publicly, in writing. Apologize completely, and readmit many back into fellowship with us.
5. Review our Field Service program, and make it far more efficient and loving.
6. Stop conflicting policy decisions: such as our inconsistent blood stand with Bulgaria.
7. Revisit our history and our reason for existence. Consider a whole new mission of Jehovah's Witnesses such that we change the very premise of what we are as an organization.
Ros