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• Who Today Sheds Spiritual Enlightenment?

  At the Watchtower study on November 10, 2011, you may have noticed these two paragraphs:

  14 How do you react when Jehovah, the Source of spiritual enlightenment, sheds light on “the deep things of God” found in the Bible? (1 Cor. 2:10-13) We have an excellent example in the apostle Peter’s reaction when Jesus told His listeners: “Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves.” Taking those words literally, many disciples said: “This speech is shocking; who can listen to it?” They “went off to the things behind.” But Peter said: “Lord, whom shall we go away to? You have sayings of everlasting life.”—John 6:53, 60, 66, 68.
  15 Peter did not fully understand what Jesus said about eating His flesh and drinking
  His blood. But the apostle relied on God for spiritual enlightenment. When spiritual
  light on some matter gets brighter, do you try to understand the underlying Scriptural
  reasons for the adjustment? (Prov. 4:18)
• Disfellowshipping Hurts

  We have written a number of times on the site about disfellowshipping and shunning of a fellow brother or sister. We know that even Jesus himself was “disfellowshipped” by the Jewish Sanhedrin. As currently practiced, this Witness doctrine goes far “beyond the things that are written” (1 Corinthians 4:6) by enforcing a list of over a hundred different things a person could be expelled for [1]. How much needless pain and suffering has this doctrine caused you or someone you love? 60,000 are added to this list by elders that are “just following orders” every year. Thousands of brothers have stepped down and resigned their position over the last several decades due to this and other aspects of the harshness and judging that they are pressed into service to do to their “fellow slaves”. (Matthew 18:28)
  The following poem has been and continues to be inspirational to many that have been affected by this un-Christian practice: