So this Jehovah's Witness doctrine I was teaching them was basically their first introduction. It was all for the most part quite new to them. The people that I was talking to didn't have any frame of reference for Christianity or for the Bible. On why she began to question her faith while she was doing missionary work in China as soon as it was over, so that no one would have to talk to you. However, no one was allowed to talk to you, and you sat in the back row while the meeting was on and left. you had to show your repentance by attending all the meetings and being very regular in showing up at the Kingdom Hall. If you wanted to get back, they left the door open, but. So what that effectively meant was that you lost your contact with your entire community, including your own family. They would go to the platform, stand at the podium and just say, "Amber Scorah has been disfellowshipped." They wouldn't say why, but it was an announcement to let everyone know that they had to stop associating with you.ĭisfellowshipping was just a complete shunning of the sinner. they would make an announcement at the congregation meeting. How?ĭisfellowshipping is a means of excommunication, and what happens effectively is that when the elders determined that you were not repentant enough. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. "And here I was, across the table, coming here, this person from the West telling them to throw all that away in favor of this a-hundred-or-so-year-old new American religion."Ĭlose overlay Buy Featured Book Title Leaving the Witness Subtitle Exiting a Religion and Finding a Life Author Amber Scorah the more I realized their culture had thousands of years of rich wisdom and cultural tradition and history," she says. "The more I got to know and learn about Chinese culture. Scorah went on to marry an elder in the church, and she and her husband traveled to China as missionaries. "When my father died, it just gave me more impetus to want to go back to the faith," Scorah says, "because I knew that the only way I would see him again was if I were a Jehovah's Witness who survived Armageddon, because after Armageddon, the faithful would be resurrected to Earth, in our beliefs." Rather than pulling away at that time, Scorah doubled down. When, as a teenager, the community shunned her and prevented her from participating in her father's funeral, she accepted it as appropriate punishment for having sex with her boyfriend. Amber Scorah writes about exiting the Jehovah's Witnesses in Leaving the Witness.Īs she grew up as a third-generation Jehovah's Witness, there were certain things Amber Scorah did not question.
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