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The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation elder or ministerial servant [16] and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from The Watchtower magazine, [9] with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine. [17]
Ministerial servants—appointed in a similar manner as elders—fulfill clerical and attendant duties, but may also teach and conduct meetings. [94] Jehovah's Witnesses do not use elder as a title to signify a formal clergy-laity division, [124] though elders may employ ecclesiastical privilege regarding confession of sins. [125]
Meetings usually open and close with song and prayer. Meetings held in the Kingdom Hall include Bible readings and public talks on matters such as the Bible, family life, Christian qualities and prophecy. There are discussions of specially prepared study articles in The Watchtower magazine and other publications of Jehovah's Witnesses.
The event—which is actually a series of meetings, luncheons, and dinners—has taken place since 1953 and has been held at least since the 1980s at the Washington Hilton on Connecticut Avenue NW. The National Prayer Breakfast, held in the Hilton's International Ballroom, is yearly attended by some 3,500 guests, including international ...
In "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner," as in so many other films, Poitier captured all the action and reaction roiling beneath the surface of human interaction. In his hands, action sparked reaction ...
The Lord's Evening Meal, also known as the Memorial of Jesus' Death, is an annual commemoration of the death of Jesus by Jehovah's Witnesses.Witnesses consider it the only religious event that Christians are commanded to observe by the Bible, as well as the most important day of the year.
Referenced in the January 1, 1977 Watchtower, page 11 and the 1979 Yearbook of Jehovah's Witnesses, page 94. Publisher: Macmillan of Canada. ISBN 0-7705-1340-9 (Canada, 1976) Apocalypse Delayed: The Story of Jehovah's Witnesses by M. James Penton. Penton, who is a professor emeritus of history at University of Lethbridge, examines the history ...
The Role of Theology and Bias in Bible Translation: With a special look at the New World Translation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Huntington Beach, California: Elihu Books. ISBN 0-9659814-9-5. Geisler, Norman L.; Nix, William E. (2012). From God To Us Revised and Expanded: How We Got Our Bible. Moody Publishers. ISBN 9780802483928.