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: ijwfq article 66; 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