Why is it that there is no arrangement for 'faders' and those who stop going to meetings to at least keep getting the magazines. Why don't the local elders or pioneers even bother to drop them in our letterboxes? It amazes me how much time is devoted to methodically cold-calling with magazines in the door-to-door work, but no methodical arrangement exists for inactive ones. Weird.
Why don't elders drop off the mags?
by yaddayadda 15 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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Spectre
Good point. However, would you pay for them? I wouldn't want to give any more money to them at all myself.
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Satanus
They can't count time spent w baptised ones, except their family study. No incentive.
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young hearts, be free..
No offence intended, but do you actually want the magazines ??
If you've left or are "fading", why would you care ?
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ozziepost
Oh, I don't think yadda wants the mags, he's musing over why there isn't an arrangement that properly shephers the lost sheep. After all, that's what Jesus spoke of, the leaving the 99 to look for just one lost sheep.
In practical terms, there's no incentive for the elders to do it. That's what happens when you get a "salvation by works" theology; they will only do works that may be rewarded.
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VM44
ozziepost, your comment is very insightful
That's what happens when you get a "salvation by works" theology; they will only do works that may be rewarded.
Thus the actions of the JWs show, despite any claims they may verbally make otherwise, that they hold to a "works based" theology.
Very good!
--VM44
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yaddayadda
I think you're right Ozziepost.
And yes I am still interested in perusing the mags, believe it or not.
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defd
Ill send some mags to you if you want them
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mouthy
Look at that now Not only is DEFD counting time on here he has a back call !!!!!!Sharp fellow
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katiekitten
I think this is a valid point, notwithstanding the fact that I wouldnt want the magazines myself.
My mum used to say that if they put as much effort into keeping Witlesses in, as they put into getting new ones in, they would do much better. She noted that for years in the UK we were baptising thousands each year but our overall numbers were never going up. She said it was hypocritical to put no effort into helping people who may well have been faithful for years. It showed a calous cynicism to concentrate so har on getting new people in while totally neglecting previously faithful Witlesses, and an arrangement for getting magazines to them would be a very easy first step to redressing this issue.
But hey, why do they want people who have been in for years, who can remember say 1975, who may actually have Watchtowers hanging around from 1975, when they can get newbies in who think 1975 is a distant old fashioned rumour... Newbies are much easier to hoodwink.