王国聚会所

王国聚会所是耶和华见证人使用的礼拜场所。 1935 年，时任守望台书社社长约瑟夫·富兰克林·卢瑟福首次为夏威夷的一座建筑以这个术语冠名 Jehovah's Witnesses – Proclaimers of God's Kingdom chap. 20 p. 319, 721，因为这些建筑物将用于“传播王国的好消息”。 Jehovah's Witnesses – Proclaimers of God's Kingdom chap. 20 p. 319 Building Together on a Global Scale

耶和华见证人大部分的崇拜和圣经教学在王国聚会所进行。见证人更喜欢“王国聚会所”这个词而不是“教会”，因为圣经中经常翻译为“教会”的词指的是人们的会众，而不是建筑物。 "Should We Go to Christian Meetings?", Awake!, March 8, 2001, page 12

王国聚会所通常都是朴素、实用的建筑物 Organized to Do Jehovah's Will p.120-123 (Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society, 2005)，不使用十字架装饰(改使用JW.ORG标志)，醒目位置陈列着當年全年经文。 Texas Monthly magazine, July 1980, page 136,138, As Retrieved 2009-08-18, "A Witness house of worship is called a Kingdom Hall. ...Appropriate to the movement's rejection of pomp and display, the [particular Hall visited by the writer], shared with two other congregations, resembled the meeting room of a budget motel, complete with rows of stackable chairs. The lone feature that marked it as a room devoted to religion was a sign, affixed to a plain wooden canopy over the speaker's stand, that bore the entreaty, "And now, Jehovah . . . grant your slaves to keep speaking your word with all boldness." The congregation of approximately 75 included admirably equal portions of blacks, whites, and Mexican Americans, a not uncommon manifestation of ethnic ecumenicity in Witness circles."王国聚会所通常包括书刊部、捐款箱“To the House of Jehovah Let Us Go”, Our Kingdom Ministry, April 1993, page 4 等。

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