Attention: For all former 2x2s and other parties in the Salem area who may be interested in helping VOT to gather current Workers sermons, there are PUBLICLY ADVERTISED “gospel meetings” being held at the following places and times. If anyone could attend and record one or more of these meetings, we would greatly appreciate receiving audio copy and/or transcripts. Thank you kindly to any who could do this for us.

Gospel meetings will be held at 3 p.m. Sundays, Jan. 31, Feb. 14 and 21, at the Hazel Brown Leicht Memorial Library in West Salem; and at 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays, Feb. 3, 10, 17 and 24, at Holmen High School’s large-group instruction room, 1001 McHugh Road.

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Here are 4 other gospel meetings that are being held across the country:

Nondenominational Bible Talks, 3 p.m. tomorrow, Steele Carriage House, 130 North Main St., Adrian, Mich. "Upholding Jesus Christ and His Teachings." No collections. Additional talks, Jan. 24, 31, Feb. 7, 14, 21 and 28. Information, 517-265-7430 or 978-621-9780.

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NONDEMONINATIONAL BIBLE TALKS TO CONTINUE Nondenominational Bible talks will continue Sunday and Feb. 14, 21 and 28 at 4 p.m. in Room 204 of the Minot Municipal Auditorium.

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Non-Denominational Bible Talks - ALL WELCOME
Wednesday, Feb 10 7:30p at Non-Denominational Bible Talks, Red Bluff, CA
Phone: (530) 521-5671

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Non-Denominational Bible Talks
12620 Highway 99E, Red Bluff, CA, 96080
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Article by Benton Johnson which is an edited, published version of the 1987 Presidential Address which he delivered at the 1987 annual meeting of the Association for the Sociology of Religion (Chicago).

CHRISTIANS IN HIDING: THE "NO NAME" SECT
By  Benton Johnson - 1995

[NOTE: This essay has been published in Sex, Lies and Sanctity: Religion and Deviance in Contemporary North America, Mary Jo Neitz and Marion S. Goldman (eds.).  JAI Press, pp. 37-55.]

Book Review: Sex, Lies and Sanctity: Religion and Deviance in Contemporary North America.

Worker Jeremy Gibson – Manhattan, Montana #1 – June 23, 2006

In 1 Corinthians 2, I won't read the verses but particularly from verses 11 down, it tells us that we know the ways of men, of humans, by the spirit of man in us. Also, we might call it the human nature in us. That we know the ways of men and that we can only know the ways of God by having the Spirit of God. And if we have the Spirit of God, we'll think different than if we just have the spirit of man.

There is much difference between God and man. We know there is a difference between men an women. Men don't exactly understand how women think, and vise versa. But that is a small difference compared to the difference between the thinking of man and the thinking of God. And it is the Spirit of God that helps us understand the mysteries of heaven. Like even the purpose and the existence of hell, the Spirit of God teaches us that. Many people in the world want to think that that is just a scare tactic or there is nothing to hell, but the Spirit of God teaches us why there is a hell. And it teaches us why Jesus had to die for us.

To many people, that is a mystery that seems foolish. But the Spirit of God teaches us those things.

God wants us to know the way He thinks about things. He wants us to know His judgment. And if we are confused about how God thinks, it is because of our unwillingness to accept. Either to search and ask God why or just unwillingness to accept His answers.

I was in confusion for a couple years about whether I was supposed to be in 'the work,' just because of my unwillingness.

From Tom Schroeder – 11-21-03

Hello Again,

Now, the last few days, there has been different things written here about homosexuals, lesbians and gays, etc. I am sure some people are very cautious to state their opinions on this subject, just as some gays I know that are cautious about stating their opinions.

I will tell you what took place 10 years ago. After Sunday meeting, I was invited to stay for dinner with about 10 other people and my sister-in-law asked me, “What's new, Tom?”

“Well, I have been invited to a wedding and a reception,” I said.

“Are they professing and someone we know?” she asked.

I said, “No, they don't go to the meetings so you don't know them.”

“Is it a church wedding?” she asked.

“Yes, it's two gay women having a church wedding here in Chicago.”

WOW, did that conversation ever spring alive around that dinner table.

Now, you all know that you can't get truther's around the dinner table to discuss what they heard in the fellowship meeting just an hour before, or if they have any doubts if they are going to go to heaven when they die.

But this was different!!

“You are not going to a gay wedding,” they said. Why, “they” wouldn't be seen near a place like that and they didn't think it was right for me to go.

We were shunned by the very people we were to go to meeting with.

[Admin Note: This is a post that was written in 2001. It's interesting to note that the “only” wiggle room given by this worker for computer usage 10 years ago, was at the workplace. However, true to 2x2 form, there were many workers that owned computers at that time and even years before,.......and made excuses by stating that “others” had bought and given the computer to them. Spoken rules but never written rules banned many things over the years, “BUT” the worker's narrow minded intolerance for many decades of radios, movies, jewelry, short hair, pants, makeup, TV, alcohol, sports and much more, wasn't going to work with the computer and it wasn't going to "BE BANNED," because they LOVED their personal computer.

A worker carrying a computer into member homes made it impossible to ban them.

The workers were finally between a rock and a hard place. They desired to ban the computer from members so they couldn't read the REAL TRUTH about their only way to heaven, but they loved the computer for themselves.........it made it much easier to send one letter to many people.

This showcases how phony, empty, and hollow to the core, ALL of their sometimes spoken, unwritten rules were. Their strange, illogical, man-created beliefs heaped on members for decades, finally came back to haunt and project on them with the advent of the computer.

And the rest is HISTORY

From Tom Schroeder:

Hello again:

I should tell you all that a lurker on the "list" called me this forenoon and asked me when I was going to write another story. 

He asked me if I had read on the list about all the money that the friends give to workers. No, I told him, as I had done a few days of charity work this week and had a lot of reading to do to get caught up.

"Well, I can't talk too long," he said, as his wife would soon be home from meeting.

So I am writing this letter to him.