What the Future Holds for Jehovah's Witnesses

How will the religion of Jehovah's Witnesses change in the future? These are my thoughts on various possibilities. JWs have often (intentionally or not) copied changes the Mormon church makes, so I use some input from how Mormons do things. #exjw #jehovahswitnesses #jehovahswitness 00:00 Introduction 01:00 Ways JWs have copied LDS already 12:58 1) Teachings divided into either doctrines or policies 18:09 2) Releasing Governing Body talk transcripts as articles with bylines 24:04 3) Creating a Correlation Department 27:50 4) Testing future changes via pilot programs 30:42 5) Eliminating the midweek meeting 33:19 6) Schisms forming within the religion 35:49 7) Changes to convention format 37:02 8) Tattoos allowed 37:47 9) Making SKE almost mandatory for young JWs 40:10 10) Only select group of JWs do public preaching 43:24 11) Reducing study time before baptism for converts 44:50 12) Preaching via social media 46:02 13) Official JW channel on YouTube 46:31 14) Changing the religion's name/becoming more Jesus–focused 48:49 15) Increased efforts to reactivate inactive JWs 49:42 16) Website by exJWs to more easily disassociate 50:14 17) Continued struggles around LGBTQ+ issues 55:16 18) More racial/ethnic diversity on Governing Body 59:14 19) New HQ department to identify disloyal JWs 1:00:18 20) Making elders handbook available to everyone 1:01:11 21) Using celebrity JWs as spokespeople 1:03:36 22) Circuit Overseer no longer a paid position; handled by local elders 1:08:26 23) Blood doctrine changes