How to Remain in God’s Love, “Chapter 13: Do All Celebrations Please God?”
“A common practice at weddings and other social occasions is toasting. During a toast, one person expresses good wishes while others raise their glasses. How should Christians view toasting?”
The revised edition of the same chapter keeps a section on toasting, now headed ‘The Origins of Toasting’, describes the pagan origin and says ‘that is not how Jehovah provides blessings’, but no longer calls the custom unacceptable and gives no instruction to avoid it.
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Provenance and verification note for How to Remain in God’s Love, Chapter 13: Do All Celebrations Please God?
Confidence note. Chapter opened on the Watchtower Online Library and re-opened for audit on 19 September 2026. The paragraphs sit between the page 181 and page 182 markers; the chapter runs pp. 172-186. Dating: the book is of 2017, not 2024. Its Watchtower Online Library document ids are of the form 1102017nnn, its internal links are under /lvs/2017/, its title page carries 2017, and the official PDF served for the symbol lvs was created on 9 November 2017. The id of this record still carries the slug “2024” from the batch in which it was first written.
Notes. Useful as the intermediate step between the 2008 wording and the 2025 announcement.
Accessed. 19 September 2026 · Source ID. src-chg-p-lvs-2024-ch13-toasting