Is this thread tongue-in-cheek?
Arent they all?
JW hubby wants help with his door-to-door presentation
by jgnat 36 Replies latest watchtower beliefs
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wanderlustguy
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cultswatter
During the END OF WORLD?RELGION tract last OCTOBER they said
"A MESSAGE FOR YOU"
then it was ABOUT FACE and a left right left right left right back out to the car
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Happy Harvester
Hi there. We're out talkiing to you and your neighbors today about how to live. Would yoo like some thorazine to go with our magazine? I've found they go very nicely together . . .
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jgnat
bisous: Is this thread tongue-in-cheek?
For me it is! He's serious. Now, I warned him that he will not be able to use all the answers, but he still wanted me to post the question. You have to remember how I've set my hubby up these past five years. The people who have been most supportive of him are ex-JW's! The local elders, also, have been very helpful in dissillusioning him. Whenever he's gone to the elders for help, they've counted it against him. Once bitten, twice shy sort of thing. The irony pleases me.
sacrebleu: You're kidding right? We're supposed to help him ruin someone's life? Get real!!! Was he a JW when you met him? Or what?
I met my JW when he was inactive. I'm pretty sure hubby is incapable of convincing anyone of anything.
blueviceroy: Not to be mean but hubby should seek some true understanding prior to spreading propaganda that sits uneasily in the mind like a cheap T.V. dinner.
"True understanding" is not hubby's thing. He wants acceptance. The Witness inclusion tactics are at least plain and formulaic. If he does everything they demand of him, he's "in". They have to be nice to him. What he has been slow in understanding is that his efforts will never be enough.
JWdaughter: The WT doesn't require that you use the service topics do they? I thought they were just suggestions.
Hubby and I have lots of experience with Watchtower "suggestions". Hubby's trying very hard to toe the line here. Good preparation, I know, gives him courage to try.
It took him twenty minutes to gather enough courage to ask his book study conductor for help last night. Now he's suited up and cologne'd up. Soooo...off he goes.
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Zico
I don't envy him Jgnat, I've never met a JW yet who enjoys the Service. There's just a very uncomfortable feeling about knocking on someone's door when you know they don't want you there. If he's a nervous person, I can't see this being an activity he'll enjoy.
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OnTheWayOut
"Should you Live Only for Today"?
Why should his presentation be any different from all the others? What's so difficult?
Here's the average presentation, and it is the one I recommend:
We are offering this magazine that asks, "Should You Live Only For Today?" to our
neighbors. If you will read it, here is yours. -
jgnat
OTWO: Why should his presentation be any different from all the others? What's so difficult?
In case you missed it, this is only his second time out in service in seventeen years. Hubby's a slow starter. They won't have him up on the platform any day soon.