Schedule for Week of September 8

Song 133 and Prayer

Congregation Bible Study:

cl chap. 12 ¶16-21, box on p. 127 (30 min.)

Theocratic Ministry School:

Bible reading: Numbers 22-25 (10 min.)

No. 1: Numbers 22:36–23:10 (4 min. or less)

No. 2: Satan Is Not Just the Evil Within People​—rs p. 362 ¶3–p. 363 ¶1 (5 min.)

No. 3: Adam​—In What Way Was Adam Made in the Likeness of God?​—it-1 pp. 44-45 ¶6 (5 min.)

Service Meeting:

Song 94

15 min: Display Good Manners When Preaching. (2 Cor. 6:3) Discussion based on the following questions: (1) Why is it important that we display good manners while preaching? (2) How may we show good manners when (a) our group arrives in the territory? (b) we are walking from house to house in residential territory or driving from house to house in rural territory? (c) we are standing at a door? (d) our companion is giving a witness? (e) the householder is speaking? (f) the householder is busy or the weather is inclement? (g) the householder is rude?

15 min: “Improving Our Skills in the Ministry​—Laying the Groundwork for a Return Visit.” Discussion. Include a soliloquy of a publisher preparing for the ministry and formulating a follow-up question to ask if the householder accepts the magazines.

Song 68 and Prayer