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===Weekend meeting=== The weekend meeting, usually held on Sunday, comprises a 30-minute public talk by a congregation [[Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses#Elders|elder]] or [[Organizational structure of Jehovah's Witnesses#Ministerial servants|ministerial servant]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Who Are Doing Jehovah's Will Today|page=10|publisher=Watch Tower Society|quote=On the weekend, each congregation meets to hear a 30-minute Bible discourse on how the Scriptures relate to our lives and to the times we live in.}}</ref> and a one-hour question-and-answer study of a Bible-based article from ''[[The Watchtower]]'' magazine,<ref name=holdenhall /> with questions prepared by the Watch Tower Society and the answers provided in the magazine.<ref>{{Harvnb|Franz|2007|p=420}}.</ref> Members may use their own words to express the ideas in the printed material,<ref>{{cite magazine|magazine=The Watchtower|date=1 July 1999|page=20|title=Families, Praise God as Part of His Congregation}}</ref> though personal ideas derived from independent study are discouraged.<ref name=holdenhall /><ref>{{cite book |last1=Botting |first1=Heather |last2=Botting |first2=Gary |title=The Orwellian World of Jehovah's Witnesses |url=https://archive.org/details/orwellianworldof0000bott |url-access=registration |publisher=University of Toronto Press |year=1984 |page=[https://archive.org/details/orwellianworldof0000bott/page/143 143] |isbn=0-8020-6545-7}}</ref>
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