TheEndOfDoorToDoorPreaching

by LovesDubs 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  LovesDubs

  ....would it be of any surprise to anybody if the Suck-ciety DID in fact declare that Matthew 24:14 HAS been fulfilled and they can discontinue the preaching work? Imagine the savings that would mean for them in PRINTING each month??? Wouldnt they be able to just leave a pile of study articles for the troops in each Kingdoom Hall instead of printing BILLIONS of magazines left to line parrot cages and garbage cans of laundromats worldwide? Couldnt they combine the Awake with the Watchtower and produce only as many as they needed for those who actually go to the halls? They could have the friends stop by a computer at the kingdom hall, use a thumb print ID, and just input their HOURS for the month themselves so they could eliminate all that paper for field service reports, as well as the need for some poor slob of a service overseer to have to CALL everybody every month.

  And of course this would be Jehovahs Arrangement for the betterment of his Loving Organization. :) Yes the gas companies and Micky D's and Dunkin Donuts would take a hit...but its all for the betterment of mankind.

  Sounds good to me.
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  iamfreenow

  LovesDubs,

  In the unlikely event of the Watchtower making that proclamation, there would be an audible sigh of relief in every Kingdom Hall on the Planet. It won't happen though, the Society needs its' members to be kept busy, even if the preaching work has little or no results. Without it, JWs would have far too much time on their hands, and before you know it they might start thinking for themselves. The Society daren't let that happen, so the work will continue for now.
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  Elsewhere

  The preaching work is the foundation of the entire JW community, however it is nothing more than Busy Work to keep the JWs distracted and retained within the organization. The WTS would need to come up with a new kind of Busy Work before they can drop the preaching work.

  Have you ever seen a line of ants going back and forth from one place to another? If you take away the chemical trail they follow the entire line of organized ants will immediately scatter in every direction. The JWs will do the same thing if you take away their "chemical trail" preaching work.
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  jaguarbass

  Surely you jest. What you mentioned is what the watertower society does. If they didnt do those things they would be a different entity.
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  Carmel

  What? And become another religion? What is a publishing company without a sales force? carmel
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  lfcviking

  This Scripture refers to the 'Good News of the Kingdom will be preached to Allthe inhabited earth' before the end is to come. So when you look at the actual worldwide progress of this preaching work, yes a lot of western & developed countries are familiar with the JW's and what they're about. But in other countries run by Dictatorships & Opprressive Governments which enforce policies of anti-freedom they (the JW's) are hardly even heard of. This is also not to mention the numerous African Countries where tribal religions are widespread and people are often scattered and hence hard to find. So therefore one can only conclude the preaching work has yet to penetrate a lot more social boundaries than has currently done so far and hence is some way off before Matt 24:14 has surely been fullfilled.

  LFCV
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  garybuss

  New light: 'Good News of the Kingdom will be preached to All the convenient earth'
  
  Jehovah wouldn't put his people in countries where they have to pay sales tax or allow vendors to sell hot dogs at assemblies.
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  wozadummy

  I've put this here before but here is what a bumper sticker said that made me chuckle.....................................

  Jesus is Coming - Look Busy
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  moshe

  End the preaching work? Well, if they did that the JW's wouldn't have that flimsy excuse any longer to excuse why they don't have any charities set up to help the poor. Can you imagine JW's being asked to work in a soup kitchen instead doing the door to door work? Why that would be enough to make the stiff necked JW's actually quit the KH!
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  Billzfan23

  It would really be a shame. I would miss meeting the group for service each Saturday, then stopping to fill up on gas, doing a couple of calls which amounts to cruising to a couple of houses where I know there is nobody home, followed by stopping for breakfast with the family before calling it a day a few minutes before 12... Say it ain't so!!!!