Shunning and Disfellowshipping

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Gal 4:17 “They eagerly seek you, not commendably, but they wish to shut you out, in order that you may seek them.” People try to exercise power over others by excluding them so that they will submit to their authority and do as they are told.

Rom 16:17-18 “Now I urge you, brethren, keep your eye on those who cause dissensions and hindrances contrary to the teaching which you learned, and turn away from them. For such men are slaves not of our Lord Christ but of their own appetites; and by their smooth and flattering speech they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

John 9:22 The healing of the blind man. His parents didn’t want to answer for their son because they didn’t want to be put out of the synagogue.

When obedience replaces love, and fear replaces freedom, what you're left with isn't faith, its captivity.

The organization has been rewriting its own past to protect its own present.

"Since Jehovah God and Jesus Christ completely trust the faithful and discreet slave, shouldn't we?" (Gerrit Loesch) Well, the Bible tells us not to put our trust in man. Jesus himself did not trust men, because he himself knew what was in men's hearts. John 2:24 (NASB) But Jesus, on His part, was not entrusting Himself to them, for He knew all men. God tells us that we are cursed if we put our trust in man. Jeremiah 17:5 (NASB) Thus says the LORD, "Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind And makes flesh his strength, And whose heart turns away from the LORD.