Second attempt - Why go to the Jehovah's Witness Memorial Service April 9 if you're not allowed to participate?

My brothers and sisters have answered well already.

Just one RESPECTFUL request, before choosing a best answer please refrain from giving false information about JWs just like you did in the link below.

http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkZDN...

JWs DO NOT believe that the New Testament were written for the 144,000 class ONLY.

Respectfully yours,

rutch

Jesus said, "Keep doing this in remembrance of me."

First off there is so much more to the celebration than passing of the emblems. The celebration starts a week prior with bible reading and meditation. Every night we are invited to read scriptures that show us Jesus last few days on earth as a human. True Christians appreciate not only what Jesus went through but also what our heavenly father went through knowing that His son was going to die for all our sins.

There is also a scriptural discourse that takes place during the ceremony. The emblems being passed are a small but important part for those who have the hope of heavenly life. Those of us who look forward to paradise on earth are happy to follow the command above because we know he is now ruling in heaven and quite honestly, he asks us to.

Anyone who wishes can attend the Memorial of Jesus's death it is open to the public. For more information on what Jehovah's Witnesses believe visit the only website from Jehovah's Witnesses.

Nah! EVERY Christian is supposed to partake of the wine + unleavened bread in the memorial of Christ's death. He didn't set numbers/ classes etc as qualifying. He told us how to partake + NOT to partake of it wrongly. Do't confuse Christ's commands with Jw theology!

As others said it is done out of respect for Jehovah and Jesus Christ and is one of the holiest night, so to speak, within the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Emblems are passed in observance and some may partake if of the anointed 144,000 chosen to go to Heaven.

It is every ones choice to participate or not. All who go and don't participate go to hear the sermon or talk about Jesus and look up the scriptures on what happened to him and why he did what he did. The talk or sermon also explains from the Bible why some participate and why some don't and what the actual emblems of the bread and wine mean. It is interesting.

Maybe your last question got deleted as you say that JW's are "very sensitive." Surely if they were "very sensitive" as you say, they wouldn't be going door to door getting doors slammed in their faces sometimes if they were. They wouldn't be able to take it. Get real!

To his faithful apostles Jesus said: “Keep doing this in remembrance of me.” (Luke 22:19) It is a command too.

Some of us partake, some of us don't.

But we all obey Jesus' words to do this in remembrance of him.

Jesus' death opened up the way for everlasting life for all mankind, not just the 144,000. For some, that everlasting life will be spent on earth forever, and for some, that everlasting life will be spent in heaven forever.

NO ONE, not even the elders, or a spouse, or another Jehovah's Witness can tell another Witness that he/she SHOULD or SHOULD NOT partake.

Christian baptism opens up the door to life forever on earth. From those, Jehovah selects or anoints those which he personally has selected for heavenly life. That is not our choice> Jehovah does the anointing.

Anyone who doubts that baptism with water is different than baptism with holy spirit should remember Jesus' words to Nicodemus - that a person chosen for heavenly life has to be baptized with water AND holy spirit.

Acts chapter 8 gives an account of this happening separately, which of course it did on the day of Pentecost also for the 120.

The holy spirit is very powerful. A person anointed with the holy spirit can tell you the day, almost the minute that it happened. And there is NO ambiguity at all in Jehovah's letting the person know what is going on. Your first thought will be that - "this is the anointing" - you will KNOW what is going on.

All individuals who have an appreciation of the life AND the death of Jesus and what this accomplished are so grateful for this opportunity to show where they stand on the issue of living forever and how this gift came about by actions on the parts of Jehovah and Jesus.

To have the honor to pass those emblems to another, whether they partake or not, is as the person said, an honor and a privilege to go on record to all earthly AND heavenly observers of your personal recognition of where you stand.

And for those who partake, it is partaking with a clean conscience that they know why they partake, what they are permanently giving up from the earth, and that their personal will must bow to the Master, Jesus, in all. They have been bought with a price, and their time and energy is NOT THEIR OWN.

To partake is serious business.

When my kids were young, we taught them to think of what those emblems stand for while they are being passed, and that this particular celebration will come to an end in the future. They were told to mark this as a privilege and an honor, to keep a good mental picture of it, to tell their children and grandchildren and the generations to come about this very special occasion.

The people who aren't anointed are participating. They just aren't eating the bread and drinking the wine. Their participation is listening to the talk and helping to pass the bread and wine to anyone who might qualify to eat and drink it. That was one of my favorite events of the year as a kid, getting to pass the wine and bread to the next person. It's also the biggest event of the JW calendar, where everybody shows up who still has any ties to the organization, so it's a chance to see people that don't attend often.

may i as an ex JW, TRY TO EXPLAIN the number 9,105 you quote who partook of the bread and wine, would be the ones with a heavenly calling , that is the number remaining on the earth now ,of the original 144000 as in the book of revelation, all the ones attending would be witnesses and of the earthly class.

this number decreases every year, so we are told, i trust this helps you .

To show love and appreciation for the ransom sacrifice of our King Jesus. With out Jehovah's loving provision and his son Jesus being the loyal and faithful son he is we would have no hope, no chance of a relationship with Jehovah.

Jesus also commanded us to do this in rememberance of him. He did not specify any certain group.

I don't participate because I am not going to heaven. My hope is eternal life on paradise earth. So why should that bother me?

I am not sensitive. Hate being lied about, don't you?

The only reason I knew of this question was it was recommended and passed along by members of my group. As for participating, being there and passing the emblems IS participation. The fact that we do not partake shows we do not have the same wishes as those who do. Still it is participation.

We all attend because our leader, Jesus, commanded us to keep observing this "celebration". I know an innocent man's violent death is normally no cause for any celebration. It was one of the primary purposes for his coming to earth as a perfect human along with honoring Jehovah's name. (1Cor. 11:20-26)

Only by his sacrifice could any of the good things happen. Forgiveness from sins we imperfect humans do. Opportunity for eternal life restored as Adam was to have passed down to us. Paradise restored. Freedom from sin and death.

Those partaking of the emblems are accepting of a death and resurrection to spiritual heavenly life. Their jobs will be as Luke 22:28-30 being both kings and priests with Jesus in his reign as King of God's Kingdom. Most of us do not really desire that.

Earth is humanity's home. That is where we desire to stay, albeit cleaner than now. Our desire is to be in the other class Rev. 7:9 calls "the great crowd which no man was able to number". To live under conditions Adam's children were supposed to live under before he messed it up for all of us.

None of this would be possible unless Jesus had fulfilled the requirements of Righteousness and Justice necessary for Jehovah to allow humans to get back on course as Jehovah intended. (Is. 55:11)

All of us whether with heavenly calling or not, have everything to be respectful for and observe this annual celebration of Jesus' sacrifice for humanity just as he instructed. (1Cor. 11:20-26) No hope would have been possible without buying us back from Adam's sin.

That is why we are all there. Whether we partake or pass, it is participating.

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