Jehovahs Witnesses - Fully Accomplish Your Ministry

Jehovah is the Grand Instructor. () This has included congregation meetings, assemblies, conventions, and various schools, such as the Pioneer Service School.

During this course, you will be helped to...

strengthen your relationship with our Grand Instructor, Jehovah God, and with the Head of the Christian congregation, Christ Jesus. ()

abound in love for the whole association of brothers. ()

become more effective in all aspects of your ministry. ()

be more aware of Bible principles and better equipped to apply them. ()

This course includes 40 hours of classroom discussions, demonstrations, and workshops designed to help you sharpen your skills as a pioneer. The workshops will present practical application of what is discussed in class. You may receive an assignment for a demonstration, an interview, or a soliloquy for one of the designated units. The instructor will assign these in advance, so that they can be well prepared and rehearsed. You will receive additional information if you are asked to participate.

You have received your personal copy of the Pioneer Service School textbook in advance of your scheduled week of instruction. Use this time to become familiar with the textbook. Space is provided in the margins for your personal notes.

Study and meditate on the lessons, the questions, and the Scriptures before they are considered in class. The questions will help you cultivate thinking ability. Analyze the scriptures carefully. Endeavor to understand the Bible principles involved. Get sufficient rest during the week of school. This will help you to be alert for class discussions each day.

Read.

To a large degree, what you get out of this Pioneer Service School will depend on what you put into it..

We encourage your participation in classroom sessions. The other pioneers will benefit from your expressions and experiences, just as you will benefit from theirs. In this way, the course will prove to be a genuine interchange of encouragement. (.

Throughout the entire course of the school, you should have in mind making personal application of the information being considered. You would do well to ask yourself such questions as: How does this information apply to me personally? What Bible principles are involved, and how can I apply them? How can I use what I am learning to make my service more effective? How can this help me in my dealings with my brothers and sisters in the congregation? How will it enrich my relationship with Jehovah?.

We are certain that you will highly esteem the privilege you have of attending the Pioneer Service School. With Jehovahs blessing, the school will provide lasting encouragement and much practical assistance. As a result, may you be equipped to do the work of a skilled evangelizer and fully accomplish your ministry..

Though Jehovah will give you bread in the form of distress and water in the form of oppression, your Grand Instructor will no longer hide himself, and you will see your Grand Instructor with your own eyes.

Jesus then said: After you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing of my own initiative; but just as the Father taught me, I speak these things.

This is what Jehovah says, your Repurchaser, the Holy One of Israel: I, Jehovah, am your God, The One teaching you to benefit yourself,* The One guiding you in the way you should walk. If only you would pay attention to my commandments! Then your peace would become just like a river And your righteousness like the waves of the sea.

Or for your own good.

You, however, continue in the things that you learned and were persuaded to believe, knowing from whom you learned them and that from infancy you have known the holy writings, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

On the day that you stood before Jehovah your God in Horeb, Jehovah said to me, Congregate the people together to me so that I may let them hear my words, in order that they may learn to fear me all the days that they are alive on the ground and that they may teach their sons.

Listen, O Israel: Jehovah our God is one Jehovah. You must love Jehovah your God with all your heart and all your soul* and all your strength.* These words that I am commanding you today must be on your heart, and you must inculcate them in* your sons and speak of them when you sit in your house and when you walk on the road and when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as a reminder on your hand, and they must be like a headband on your forehead.* Write them on the doorposts of your house and on your gates.

See Glossary.

Or vital force; resources.

Or repeat them to; impress them upon.

Lit., between your eyes.

So if the whole congregation comes together to one place and they all speak in tongues, but ordinary people or unbelievers come in, will they not say that you have lost your minds? But if you are all prophesying and an unbeliever or an ordinary person comes in, he will be reproved and closely examined by them all. The secrets of his heart then become evident, so that he will fall facedown and worship God, declaring: God is really among you. What is to be done, then, brothers? When you come together, one has a psalm, another has a teaching, another has a revelation, another has a tongue, and another has an interpretation. Let all things take place for building up. And if someone speaks in a tongue, let it be limited to two or three at the most, and in turns, and someone must interpret.* But if there is no interpreter,* he must keep silent in the congregation and speak to himself and to God. Let two or three prophets speak, and let the others discern the meaning. But if another one receives a revelation while sitting there, let the first speaker keep silent. For you can all prophesy one at a time, so that all may learn and all may be encouraged.

Or translate.

Or translator.

Who really is the faithful and discreet* slave whom his master appointed over his domestics, to give them their food at the proper time? Happy is that slave if his master on coming finds him doing so! Truly I say to you, he will appoint him over all his belongings.