Index

A

Accusations

• adultery 12:11-13

• child sexual abuse 12:18-19

• to secular authorities 5:27; 12:19

Adultery

• accusations 12:11-13

• adulterous marriage 12:15-17

• announcing reproof for 7:20

• confession to mate 5:37, 44; 12:13

• establishing Scriptural freedom 12:9-14

• evidence 5:37; 12:11-13

• forgiveness 6:13; 12:14

• rejection by innocent mate 12:10, 14

• scheming to end marriage 3:8; 11:3; 12:17

• unbelieving mate 12:13

Announcements

• deletion 3:26-27

• disassociation 9:4-5

• disfellowshipping 7:31-32; 8:12, 20

• judicial reproof 7:20-21

• misuse of blood, repentant regarding 9:3

• reinstatement 11:13

• unbaptized publisher 5:55, 57, 60

Apostasy 5:16

Appeal committee

• accused dissatisfied with judgment of 8:14-15

• accused moves 8:5

• agrees with judicial committee 8:11-15

• correspondence with branch office 8:10, 13-15, 18-20

• disagrees with judicial committee 8:16-20

• hearing procedure 8:6-10

• judicial committee receives appeal after seven days 8:2

• objective of hearing 8:4, 9

• offering prayer 8:6, 17

Appointments

• meeting with brother after appointment is received 3:12-13

B

Bankruptcy

• appointed brother 3:17

• listed as a creditor 12:23

Baptism

• reviewing questions 2:12

• validity 5:46-48

Bible study

• child of Christian parent 2:12, 18

• inactive person 2:21; 4:15

• reinstated person 11:12

Blood

• misuse 9:3

Branch office

• seeking direction from 2:4

Brazen conduct, loose conduct 5:9-12

Bride price 5:33

C

Causing divisions, promoting sects 5:16

Celebrating false religious holidays 5:16

Children

• Bible study with 2:12, 18

• custody disputes 5:22; 12:14, 23

• of elders and ministerial servants 3:5, 15

Child sexual abuse

• accusations 12:18-19

• accused molester moves to another congregation 12:21

• announcing reproof for 7:20

• assisting victims 4:21-26, 28

• committed years in the past 3:20; 5:44

• judicial offense 5:10

• known molester moves to another congregation 12:20

• reporting allegation to secular authorities 5:27; 12:19

• victim confronting accused 5:38

• when learning of an accusation 5:38-39; 12:18-19

• wrongdoer a victim of 7:11

Circuit overseer

• consulting with during difficult judicial case 7:15

Confession

• adultery by unbelieving mate 12:13

• establishing wrongdoing 5:37

• wrongdoing years in past 5:43-45

Congregation secretary

• qualifications 2:15

• responsibilities 2:16; 4:12; 5:62

Congregation Service Committee

• correspondence requiring signature 2:13, 21; 3:11, 25, 27-28, 30

• responsibilities 2:19, 21; 3:30; 4:15; 5:55; 12:6, 20-21

• substitute signer in absence of member 2:21

• when to consult body of elders 2:20

Coordinator of the body of elders

• chairing elders’ meetings 2:6-7

• qualifications 2:11

• responsibilities 2:12

• temporary change 2:13-14

Counsel 4:7-11

Courting though not Scripturally free 5:10

Court (secular)

• accused threatens legal action 6:17-19

• false statements in 5:22

• plea bargain 5:37

• taking brothers to 12:22-23

D

Deletion

• announcement 3:26-27

• corresponding with branch office 3:25, 27

• procedure when considering 3:22-24

• resignation 3:25

• written record 3:29

Disassociation

• actions that indicate 9:3

• announcement 9:4-5

• definition 9:1

• during a judicial hearing 9:2

• no arrangement for appeal 9:5

• reporting to branch office 9:5

• written record 9:2-3

Disasters

• local 12:24

• other areas 12:25

Disfellowshipped and disassociated ones

• annual review and visit 10:1

• assistance 10:1-5

• Congregation’s Publisher Record (S-21) cards 10:2

• informational letter if they move 10:2

• nonrelatives, associating with 5:10

• personal literature 10:4

• relatives, associating with 10:6

• transportation to meetings 10:5

Disfellowshipping

• announcement 7:31-32; 8:12, 20

• appeal (See “Appeal committee”)

• informing accused of decision 7:26-29

• offenses that merit 5:2-36

• reporting to branch office 7:33

• when to pray at hearing 7:1, 28

• written record 7:34

Divorce

• announcing reproof if potential for divorce exists 7:20

• publishers contemplating 4:20

• Scriptural freedom (See “Marriage”)

• signing decree 12:14

Drugs (addictive) 5:15

Drunkenness 5:17-18

E

Employment

• gambling 5:31

• in false religious organization 5:16

• in nonneutral organization 9:3

Elders

• appointed in only one congregation 3:32

• concealed wrongdoing years in the past 3:19-21

• maintaining peace 2:27-30

• meetings 2:2-9

• moving into congregation 3:32

• moving out of congregation 3:30-31

• procedure when considering deletion of 3:23

• qualifications 3:1-5

• resignation 3:25

• seeking direction from branch office 2:4

• spirituality of household 3:5

• when decision not unanimous 2:8-9

Evidence establishing wrongdoing 5:37-39

F

Fits of anger, violence 5:35-36

Fraud 5:23-26

G

Gluttony 5:19

Greed, gambling, extortion 5:30-33

Gross uncleanness 5:13-14

Group overseer

• qualifications 2:22

• responsibilities 2:23; 4:12; 12:24

H

Heavy petting 5:14

Holidays (false religious) 5:16

I

Idolatry 5:16

Immoral conversations 5:14

Inactive publishers 4:12-17

Interfaith 5:16

J

Judicial committee

• abuse victims 7:11

• accused has not associated for many years 5:40-42

• baptized minors 6:14

• consulting with mature elder in another congregation 7:15

• disbanding 7:4, 12

• formed by which congregation 5:49-51

• hearing witnesses 7:2-3

• incarcerated ones 6:15

• inviting the accused 6:6-10

• legal action threatened 6:17-19

• marriage mates 6:11-13

• media coverage 6:18

• mental problems 7:12

• new wrongdoing after decision rendered 7:25

• prayer at hearing 7:1, 18, 28; 11:2, 6, 11

• preparing for hearing 6:3-5

• reconsidering decision to reprove 7:24

• repentance 7:6-16

• selecting members, chairman 6:1-2

• suicide threatened 6:16

• wrongdoers in different congregations 5:52

• wrongdoing years in the past 5:43-45

Judicial offenses

• apostasy 5:16

• brazen conduct, loose conduct 5:9-12

• drunkenness 5:17-18

• evaluating seriousness of alleged wrongdoing 5:2

• fits of anger, violence 5:35-36

• fraud, slander 5:23-27

• gluttony 5:19

• greed, gambling, extortion 5:30-33

• gross uncleanness 5:13-14

• lying 5:21-22

• manslaughter 5:3

• misuse of addictive drugs 5:15

• obscene speech 5:29

• por·neiʹa 5:5-8, 11

• refusal to provide materially for family 5:34

• reviling 5:28

• stealing, thievery 5:20

Judicial reproof

• announcement 7:20-21

• before onlookers 7:18

• new wrongdoing after decision rendered 7:25

• reconsidering decision 7:24

• restrictions 7:19, 22

• talk given to congregation 7:23

• whether to announce 7:20

L

Letter of introduction

• accused child abuser moves 12:21

• appointed brother moves 2:21; 3:30-31

• known child abuser moves 12:20

• publisher with judicial restrictions moves 7:22

• responsibility of secretary 2:16

Lying 5:21-22

M

Manslaughter 5:3

Marking 12:1-3

Marriage

• adulterous 12:15-17

• assisting those with problems 4:18-20, 27

• Scriptural freedom 12:5, 9-14

• separation 3:9; 4:20

• tacit approval of marriage to unbaptized person 3:18

Masturbation 5:6

Ministerial servants

• appointed in only one congregation 3:32

• concealed wrongdoing years in the past 3:19-21

• moving into congregation 3:32

• moving out of congregation 3:30-31

• procedure when considering deletion of 3:24

• qualifications 3:1-5

• questions for baptism 2:12

• resignation 3:25

• spirituality of household 3:5

• training 2:23

Misuse of addictive drugs 5:15

Misuse of tobacco 5:14

N

Neutrality 9:3

O

Obscene speech 5:29

P

Plea bargain 5:37

Por·neiʹa 5:5-8, 11

Pornography

• showing to child 5:10

• viewing abhorrent forms 5:14

Prayer

• at judicial and appeal hearings 7:1, 18, 28; 8:6, 17; 11:2, 6, 11

• when discussion of body of elders falters 2:1

Q

Qualifications of elders and ministerial servants

• bankruptcy 3:17

• concealed wrongdoing years in the past 3:19-21

• disfellowshipped family member moves into home 3:16

• member of household involved in wrongdoing 3:15

• poor judgment 3:25

• Scriptural guidelines 3:1-5

• tacit approval of marriage to unbaptized person 3:18

R

Rape

• considering claim 5:7

• victim confronting accused 5:38

Recommendations

• appointed brother moving out of congregation 3:30-31

• cautions before recommending certain brothers to branch office 3:6-10

• occasions to submit to branch office 3:11

Records

• accusation against one who has not associated for many years 5:41

• accusation by only one witness 5:39

• accusation of child abuse 2:16

• Congregation’s Publisher Record (S-21) cards 2:16; 10:2

• deletion 3:29

• disassociation 9:2-3

• judicial 2:16; 7:17, 34

• legal 2:16

• wrongdoing of unbaptized publisher 5:62

Refusal to provide materially for family 5:34

Reinstatement

• announcement 11:13

• Bible study with reinstated person 11:12

• judging repentance 11:3-5

• person attends another congregation 11:7-10, 13

• prayer at hearing 11:2, 6, 11

• reporting to branch office 11:11

• restrictions 11:12-13

• who makes decision 11:1

Repentance

• committee is not unanimous 7:16

• consulting with mature elder in another congregation 7:15

• determining 7:6-16; 11:3-5

• extenuating circumstances 7:11-12

• if unclear 7:13-16

Reproof (See “Judicial reproof”)

Restrictions

• following reinstatement 11:12-13

• following reproof 7:19

• unbaptized publishers 5:54, 57

Reviling 5:28

S

Secretary (See “Congregation secretary”)

Service committee (See “Congregation Service Committee”)

Service overseer

• qualifications 2:17

• responsibilities 2:18; 4:12, 15

Shepherding

• giving counsel 4:7-11

• inactive 4:12-17

• sisters 4:24, 27-28

• those with marital problems 4:18-20

• those with spiritual weakness 4:4-5

• training ministerial servants 2:23

• victims of abuse 4:21-26

• visits 4:6

Slander 5:23-27

Spiritism 5:16

Spreading teachings contrary to Bible truth 5:16

Staying all night with a person of the opposite sex under improper circumstances 5:11; 12:12

Stealing, thievery 5:20

Suicide

• attempted 5:4

• threatened 6:16

T

Theocratic Ministry School overseer 2:26

U

Unbaptized publishers

• announcements 5:55, 57, 60

• restrictions after wrongdoing 5:54, 57

• written record of wrongdoing 5:62

• wrongdoing of minor 5:61

Uncleanness, physical 5:14

W

Warning talk

• when to give 5:10, 14; 12:1-3

Watchtower Study conductor

• qualifications 2:24

• responsibilities 2:25

Weddings

• discourse 12:7-8

• responsibilities of officiating elder 12:4-5, 7-8

• Scriptural freedom (See “Marriage”)

• use of Kingdom Hall 12:6

Witnesses (judicial)

• evaluating testimony 5:37; 7:2-3

• present at appeal hearing if needed 8:7

• separate incidents 5:37