New Members Tend to Make Mistakes [Opposers Dismythed]
A couple of incidents in Hollywood and the sports world in 2018 regarding a couple of our brothers and sisters that does not reflect well on the organization got me to thinking about the need to help some to consider those incidents from a different perspective. The people in question were both raised in the truth and one was baptized at a young age and the other was not. Both spent decades away from the truth and have recently returned. In so doing, they display the typical affectations of those who are new in the truth, including: strict adherence to rules and unattractive displays as sin works itself out under the adherence to those precepts. If you know a person claiming to be one of Jehovah’s Witnesses who demonstrates similar unattractive traits, please look at these two aspects of new members and I think you will gain a new understanding. Strict Adherence to Rules It is true that Jehovah’s Witnesses are very strict in regard to health, (2 Corinthians 11:1) neutrality (Matt...