Members may use their own words to express the ideas in the printed material, though personal ideas derived from independent study are discouraged. Their most important and solemn event is the celebration of the 'Lord's Evening Meal', or 'Memorial of Christ's Death'.Weekend meeting The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation or and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from magazine, with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine. These larger gatherings are usually held at rented stadiums or auditoriums. A system of maintains discipline within congregations, exercising the power to expel members who breach organizational rules and to demand their by other Witnesses. Members practice a strict moral code, which forbids premarital and homosexual sex, adultery, smoking, drunkenness and drug abuse, and blood transfusions. Witnesses refuse to participate in any political and military activity and limit social contact with non-Witnesses. The group disseminates instructions regarding activities and acceptable behavior through magazine and through other, and at conventions and congregation meetings.Jehovah's Witnesses endeavor to remain 'separate from the world', which they regard as a place of moral contamination and under the control of.
Since 1976 practices have also been based on decisions made at closed meetings of the group's. 1881) of the, and of successive presidents of the, (in office 1917–1942) and (in office 1942–1977). base their practices on the interpretations of (1852–1916), founder ( c.
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