A letter

> Hello Nancy,
> I havnt reported any threads you've made and i dont know what thread you
> are talking about. The moderators check the threads all the time and they
> have rules about content and it could be that you broke one of those rules
> so they deleted it.
>
> But I just want to say that the brothers and sisters in the organization
> are not perfect people. No one is perfect yet and we are all living with
> our own problems and trying to make the best of things until sin and
> imperfection is removed.  If you think holy spirit is supposed to make us
> perfect, you are quite wrong.  The operation of holy spirit today. is for
> the purpose of helping us to get the preaching work done.  Jesus said "you
> will be witnesses of me" because he would send out the holy spirit and it
> would work in us to do that work.   It doesnt make us perfect sinless
> people.  We are still going to make mistakes and rub each other up the
> wrong way from time to time.
>
> The elders are appointed by holy spirit in the sense that they meet the
> 'spiritual qualifications' as set out in the scriptures.  Men who  have
> endured a long time, who have remained faithful, who have devoted their
> lives to God, who preside over their families in a fine way, who show godly
> qualities and who are well respected, who follow direction, who are humble
> etc etc.  That is how they are appointed.  It doesnt mean  that they are
> perfect & sinless.  Even the Apostle Paul and Peter had a big argument over
> something they didnt agree with....and the Apostle Peter went through a
> phase of discriminating against gentile believers and thought he needed to
> segregate them from the jewish believers.   So if you are seeking
> perfection, you wont find it among Jehovahs people.
>
> But what you will find are a group of people who are doing their best to do
> what Jehovah asks of them and who are willing to take Jehovahs name to the
> nations.  Perhaps you've lost sight of why we are all in this
> organization...its not for our own benefit, but it is for the sake of
> Jehovahs sovereignty.  I would encourage you to come back to jehovah and
> focus on him and what he wants you to do rather then on what you percieve
> as an injustice toward yourself.  Think of all the injustices committed
> against Jehovah and all the torment that he has had to endure...our lives
> mean very little in comparison,  but our lives also mean a lot to Jehovah
> and he loves you and wants you back.  Dont punish Jehovah for the mistakes
> of a few people.