INACTIVITY (Spiritual)
contributing factors: w20.06 19; w92 8/1 29; w89 7/15 21-22
anxieties of life: rj 6-7; w08 11/15 13-14
being stumbled: w08 11/15 14
disagreement with a teaching: w08 11/15 14
guilty conscience: rj 10-11; w08 11/15 12, 14-15
health problems: w13 3/15 6
hurt feelings or injustice: w20.06 19, 26-27; rj 8-9
disassociation differs: ijwfq article 48; od 152; om 150
encouragement for inactive ones to return: w20.06 24-29; mwb17.04 5; rj 2, 4-16; w14 12/15 14-15; w13 11/15 13-14; w12 4/1 10-11; w06 9/1 21; w05 12/15 27; w00 12/15 12-13; w92 8/1 28-30; w89 7/15 21-23; w88 1/15 21-23; w87 5/15 21-23
letter from Governing Body: rj 2
some Bible Students after World War I: w20.10 3
video: mwb17.04 5
experiences:
brochure Return to Jehovah: w20.06 28
critical of fellow Christians: w11 2/15 20
critical of judicial committee: w18.03 26
drifted away from truth: rj 13
elderly sister speaks lovingly to inactive one: w20.06 27-28
elders assist: w20.06 25; rj 14
elder uses Bible illustration: w86 9/15 18
elder visits an inactive one each week: kr 128
father’s opposition: g 9/08 13-14
five-year-old attracts inactive Witness: yb94 51
former elder: w13 8/15 21-22
friends at work: w92 8/1 29-30
girl helped by caring spiritual sister: yb99 54-55
guilt feelings: rj 10-11
head of orphanage: yb15 54-55
helped by attending assembly: rj 6-7
helped by Bible study: km 2/06 5
helped by deaf classmate: yb13 55
helped by visit to Bethel: w10 8/15 18-19
helped by wife’s faithfulness: w16.03 16
helped when home threatened by fire: w04 6/1 30
hoping to talk to Witnesses: ijwex article 26
inactive sister’s husband helped: yb05 54
invited to Memorial: w24.01 13; yb13 74-75
literature displays: yb17 68; yb16 22
mistaken identity: yb15 62-63
no one at meetings: w16.10 4
persistence in helping: w20.06 26; kr 127; km 2/07 8
prayer for help to return: w20.06 29; w12 4/1 10-11; w00 3/1 6-7
present at father’s death: w06 5/15 30
reached by love: yb03 44
reached by personal interest: kr 128; w08 11/15 15-16
received lovingly at Kingdom Hall: rj 14
resentful of poor counsel: w92 8/1 30
youth approaches pioneer at dock: yb12 73-75
expressions of formerly inactive ones: w24.04 24; w87 5/15 23; w87 7/1 30
feelings of inactive ones: w20.06 19, 22
helping inactive ones: cf 159-160; w20.06 18-29; w20.11 6-7; w19.01 30; w13 11/15 13; w08 11/15 8-16; km 2/07 8; jd 144-147; km 2/06 5; w04 5/1 21-22; w04 7/1 17-18; w03 2/1 14-18; km 2/03 5; km 3/01 3; km 6/96 1; w92 7/1 16; w92 8/1 30; w89 7/15 23; km 11/87 1-2
after much time: km 2/07 8; km 11/00 3
congregation secretary: km 2/01 4
Congregation Service Committee: km 2/01 4; km 3/00 5; km 10/98 7; km 11/98 7
cooperating with elders: w08 11/15 10-11
elders’ role: w20.06 20-23, 25; rj 14; kr 126-127; w13 11/15 23-24; w08 11/15 9, 12; km 2/06 5; km 3/02 5; w93 7/15 27
joy from: w20.06 29
Memorial attenders: w24.01 14; km 4/11 1; km 3/08 4
Memorial season: w24.01 13; w23.01 23; km 1/08 5; km 3/07 1; km 2/04 4; km 2/02 5; km 3/02 1, 4-5; km 4/02 3; km 2/01 4; km 4/01 3; km 3/00 5
obligation to search out: w20.06 24-25; w08 11/15 12; w03 2/1 14-16; w88 1/15 22-23
one who fears facing other Witnesses: w08 11/15 16
one who had been offended: w20.06 26-27; yb89 53
one who has committed serious sin: rj 10-11; w08 11/15 12, 14-15
studying with inactive ones: w20.06 29; od 81; km 3/09 2; w08 11/15 10-11, 14-15; km 2/07 8; km 2/06 5; km 2/01 4; km 11/00 3; km 11/98 7; om 102-103
those who are weak: w20.06 28-29
helping ones in danger of becoming inactive: km 3/02 5
how to avoid: w90 9/1 29-31
how to treat inactive who return: rj 14; w08 11/15 16; km 2/07 8
importance of correcting: w89 6/1 30
Jehovah’s view of inactive: w20.06 19-23
makes matters worse: w91 12/15 13
meaning of term: w20.06 18