🏛️ Organizational History
At a 1931 convention in Columbus, Ohio, the Bible Students enthusiastically adopted this Scriptural name.
What is Jehovah's Witnesses?
Our understanding now identifies this small group of anointed brothers, rather than all anointed Christians on earth, as “the faithful and discreet slave.”
What is the Governing Body?
Though the toolbox includes publications and videos, this remains our principal teaching tool.
What is God’s Word, the Bible?
A baptized Witness who regularly shares in publicly declaring the good news is commonly known by this term.
What is a publisher?
Bible chronology indicates that Jesus began ruling as King of God’s heavenly Kingdom in this year.
What is 1914?
Premiering in 1914, this eight-hour production combined recorded speech, music, colored slides, and motion pictures to teach Bible truth.
What is the “Photo-Drama of Creation”?
Clarified in 1935, this group from Revelation chapter 7 has the hope of surviving the great tribulation and living forever on earth.
Who are the great crowd?
This interactive course is the principal textbook currently designed for conducting personal Bible studies.
What is Enjoy Life Forever!?
This traveling elder usually visits every congregation in his assigned group about twice each year.
Who is the circuit overseer?
The name Jehovah’s Witnesses was adopted in this year.
What is 1931?
At the 1922 Cedar Point convention, this threefold call urged God’s people to publicize the King and his Kingdom.
What is “Advertise, advertise, advertise”?
A clarified understanding explained that these “BLANK” in Romans chapter 13 are human governmental rulers—not Jehovah and Jesus.
Who are the Superior Authorities?
Organized around qualities such as interest in others, empathy, courage, and perseverance, this brochure trains publishers to imitate Jesus in the ministry.
What is Love People—Make Disciples?
This appointed brother assists the body of elders and must meet the qualifications listed in First Timothy chapter 3.
Who is a ministerial servant?
In this year, an English-language Internet television station called JW Broadcasting was launched on October 6.
What is 2014?
Beginning in 1924, this radio station owned by the Watch Tower Society broadcast Bible messages from New York.
What is WBBR?
The 2013 clarification of Jesus’ prophecy explained that the appointment of the faithful slave over all the Master’s belongings occurs at this future event—not in 1919.
What is the great tribulation?
This brochure in the Teaching Toolbox was designed especially to acquaint Bible students with Jehovah’s organization and can be considered progressively during their study.
What is Who Are Doing Jehovah’s Will Today?
These two Biblical terms refer to the same congregation position—one emphasizes spiritual maturity, while the other emphasizes protective supervision.
What are “elder” and “overseer”?
The first issue of the magazine now known as The Watchtower was published in this year.
What is 1879?
This smaller, more portable version of the “Photo-Drama” could be shown in places where the full production’s equipment was impractical.
What is the “Eureka Drama”?
Once understood as picturing Jehovah’s modern-day preachers, the locust army in this prophetic book is now understood as an enemy invasion bringing devastation.
What is Joel?
This Teaching Toolbox item was designed especially for people who have limited reading ability or whose language has little Bible literature.
What is Listen to God and Live Forever?
This three-brother committee handles certain confidential and administrative matters for a congregation, although it does not replace the body of elders.
What is the Congregation Service Committee?
The first class of the Watchtower Bible School of Gilead began its training in this year.
What is 1943?