How do you explain your lack of success in making disciples?

by JH 32 Replies latest jw friends

  • JH
    JH

    You weren't qualified enough?

    People weren't interested in your stupid magazines?

    So, what was it?

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  • luna2
    luna2

    No matter how many times they said that the message (you know, destruction for all but Yahootie's clean people) was from Jah, I was the one having to look people in the eye and sell it. It should have told me something that I hated the message I was supposed to deliver.

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  • AlmostAtheist
    AlmostAtheist

    I call it "good luck" as I now don't have to wish I hadn't gotten anybody into this mess!

    But it's probably more the fact that I didn't go out all that much (averaged over my time in the troof) in comparison to the ridiculous number of hours needed to hook some poor boob. The odds aren't with any particular Jdub.

    Comparing field service to gambling gives new meaning to the term "crap shoot", don't it?

    Dave

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  • JH
    JH

    I had no success because I didn't want to wreck these people's lives....I just offered the magazines and thats it.

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  • GentlyFeral
    GentlyFeral

    Silly me, I kept trying to witness to the smart people.

    You know, so I could have some company in the Spoof.

    gently feral

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  • daystar
    daystar

    I was less than successful because I felt that something was awry at the Circle K, but just could not put my finger on it. My sense of integrity caused this uneasiness to creep into my service and since my heart wasn't really in it, I was rather unsucessful.

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  • AlmostAtheist
    AlmostAtheist

    It's funny, when I was a JW I heard people from time to time say, "Tell 'em yer a Catholic! They'll run away scared!" I always thought that was a ridiculous claim, since I would talk to anybody and I knew the people I worked with did, too.

    Only after coming out did I realize that it's entirely likely these JW's *wanted to run away*. Any excuse would be enough to let them go. Any objection at all would be sufficient to say, "Ok, well, have a nice day" and walk away, counting the minutes until this week's indulgence was paid.

    Everything makes so much more sense now.

    Dave

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  • littlerockguy
    littlerockguy

    I lived in a very churchy small town in the bible belt of the south with a church on every corner (Baptist and Church of Christ mostly) whose members did not see any reason to convert to JW religion.

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  • defd
    defd

    D.

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  • Effervescent
    Effervescent

    I always seemed to me that field service was never REALLY about converting people, or "bringing people to the truth", it was only about the little slip of paper you had to turn in every month. I could have cared less how many people I had actually spoken too, as long as I had at least 8 hours or so on my time slip every single month.

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