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[Tortuga]

9 minutes ago, Mike047 said:

Richard, you must explain IMHO, as I am not that well into acronyms

In My Humble Opinion.

[dove]

16 hours ago, dove said:

I vaguely remembered the reason they read the questions first was for the audience to look for the answer while the paragraph was being read. This article that was pointed out in paragraph 3. The way we do it now is an improvement.

 

imho. The organization is always trying different ways to do things. For example, I remember long ago that when a hh showed no interest in our message, we 'should not be so easily turned away because this may be their last chance to hear the message and their lives were at stake'. I remember a very zealous brother in our congregation that literally stuck his foot in the door when people tried to close it, thinking he was helping them by not being 'easily turned away'. Of course it's not the way we do things now, quite the opposite. There are many other examples of changes to our preaching and teaching methods over the decades, even our meetings and each one had a purpose that was not wrong, but learning what works. If Jehovah wants us to do it differently again, we will follow that direction. 

[Dages]

1 hour ago, Mike047 said:

So, changes in our study style have also been 'food at the proper time' but what about the Watchtower January 2024, with study articles for March 4 - April  7. It would appear that we may be reverting to the earlier style of study, as a text box is placed before the paragraph and not after it.

 

Could there be some reference to this in part two of the AGM, coming out in December?

December is Gilead. January is AM

[Landon1285]

17 hours ago, jwhess said:

In early times, we asked the question in the study and waited for the answers.  After several answers, the paragraph was read as a final summary and then we went on to the next paragraph. The assumption was....that you studied the article before you came to the meeting.  The reading was just to provide review and continuity for the rest of the article.

I would like this but with a twist of only reading the paragraphs that answer the review questions. Read Scriptures should always be the main focus. 

[Mike047]

If we are changing the study style, as the new format might suggest, the key scriptures are still key to the main points. The first article is preparing us for the 2024 memorial. 

[daydream]

5 hours ago, Mike047 said:

IMHO

In My Humble Opinion, Br. Mike

I too find it frustrating when I don't quite get some of the acronyms. 

Edited November 26, 2023 by Imagine

[SteveAus]

9 minutes ago, Imagine said:

In My Humble Opinion, Br. Mike

I too find it frustrating when I don't quite get some of the acronyms. 

Common acronyms used in text

[coolbrz731]

10 hours ago, Mike047 said:

Richard, you must explain IMHO, as I am not that well into acronyms

In My Honest Opinion

[truce]

3 hours ago, coolbrz731 said:

In My Honest Opinion

In my Haughty Opinion! (Or, High-minded, as the case may be!)

Edited November 27, 2023 by truce

[dove]

On 11/25/2023 at 7:14 PM, jwhess said:

In early times, we asked the question in the study and waited for the answers.  After several answers, the paragraph was read as a final summary and then we went on to the next paragraph. The assumption was....that you studied the article before you came to the meeting.  The reading was just to provide review and continuity for the rest of the article.

You said it so much better br. Hess

[Tortuga]

18 hours ago, Imagine said:

too find it frustrating when I don't quite get some of the acronyms

I learned a new one on this site several months ago.

TL;DR. It means, Too Long; Didn't Read.

Some of the comments posted here are very long and I usually just skip them. TL,DR sums it up well.

Edited November 27, 2023 by Tortuga