last time I was inactive, I showed up for field service meeting, the elders looked at me funny, they said your spiritual health must be restored before we consider you to be reactivated. Needless to say, I never went to field service again after that. That happened about 10 years ago.
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by cyberjesus 12 Replies latest jw experiences
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Broken Promises
The last year I went in FS I refused to sell the WT mags. I just asked ppl if they were interested in the Bible.
I lived in an area where most people said "no", but if they said "yes" I said "great" and said we were doing a work that encouraged people to read their Bibles and left it at that!
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WTWizard
I never saw any point in it. You work the same streets and get the same results. You work a street, write the not at homes, and then work those to death. If you get a call, chances are good that 6 months later it will fizzle and be added back to the street. Then, after the street is worked to death, you destroy the not at homes and return the territory to be returned as fresh territory a few months later. You don't even successfully reduce the amount of work to be done, hence a complete waste of time. Even if you do manage to get one person into the cancer, the street is still the same minus one door--there is no such thing as "Not interested for good, no expiration date".
This year, I did something totally different. Instead of going door to door, I rigged up the lights. I spent something like 5 hours on Halloween decorations, and then put up Christmas lights in the hall. That display took a total of around the national average for a month's field circus, minus time to dress up and time to listen to the arrangements (it is a one-person job). It does the job of getting people thinking of Christmas (and, hence, of Christ), while providing a measure of brightness during the dreary days of late fall. Now, whether they believe in a perfect Christ that redeemed mankind or a Christ that tried to set mankind free from Jehovah is another matter. It does the job of getting people to enjoy the place, and is much better than going from door to door wasting time doing the same doors all the time and leaving nothing to show for it.