Cr@ppy teachings

[JustThinking]

There are examples of really bad meeting leaders in the "Cr@ppy meeting leaders" thread. It made me think of how many truly hideous teachings we endured. To be fair, some were doing their best with little or no training. HOWEVER, the rest were just torture for a lot of reasons. My favorites or least favorites?

1. Reading an entire encyclopaedia article for 30 minutes then teaching for 45. With kids there. On a school night. And having someone read a summary of the most recent teaching tape. THEN serving refreshments before starting a branch planning meeting. Again, ON A D**N school night!!!!!!.

2. Reading a Way Rag article for an hour and pretending it's a teaching.

3. A whole bunch of prayers that turned into "mini teachings." Arghhhh...!!!!

4. Any attempt by a HQ teacher to explain world events by putting TWI as the center of the universe.

JT

[learning]

JT, #3 really used to get at me and others I talked to about it.

But especially if you add #3 with something else.

Scenerio:

The FC is ******, someone came in late, didn't call, didn't go two by two, no new people in a while, whatever.

The FC says a prayer that in effect tries to remind people that they are supposed to serve God by planning properly etc.

Then during the start of the FC's teaching they use their anger to ream people out (even when it's indirect it is still upsetting) about whatever the button issue is and then goes on to teach about agape.

Cripes!!!

[ladycat]

Came from being in too many leadership meetings where butts got reamed in public. Even vpw did it on Corps nights. Full of himself he was.

God bless us all!