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As of 19 September 2026 the online text of Organized to Do Jehovah's Will (chapter 14) still uses 'disfellowshipped', tells the congregation 'to stop associating with that person', and contains none of the 2024 greeting or invitation guidance.

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Independent finding · 19 September 2026 Verified

As of 19 September 2026 the online text of Organized to Do Jehovah's Will (chapter 14) still uses 'disfellowshipped', tells the congregation 'to stop associating with that person', and contains none of the 2024 greeting or invitation guidance. Source: Organized to Do Jehovah's Will (online text), 19 September 2026

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Organized to Do Jehovah's Will (online text), “Chapter 14 — Maintaining the Peace and Cleanness of the Congregation”

19 September 2026 · pp.141-156 · par. 29 (p. 151); par. 33 (p. 153) · Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society

“This will alert faithful ones in the congregation to stop associating with that person.—1 Cor. 5:11. … Such a person is treated in the same way as a disfellowshipped person.”

Par. 29 describes the announcement '[Name of person] is no longer one of Jehovah's Witnesses'; par. 33 covers disassociation. The online chapter uses 'disfellowship/disfellowshipped' 13 times and 'removed from the congregation' once, and contains none of the 2024 greeting/invitation guidance.

Provenance and verification note for Organized to Do Jehovah's Will (online text), Chapter 14 — Maintaining the Peace and Cleanness of the Congregation

Confidence note. Opened on wol.jw.org (site shows © 2026 but the text is the pre-2024-terminology edition). The 2019 printing was not opened; no '2024 edition' could be located.

Notes. Date field = access date because the edition year is not stated in the online text.

Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-od-2026-0919-ch14-online

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