by donuthole 48 Replies latest jw friends
I believe the reason for the change (apart from change for the sake of change to keep the publishers on their toes) was that "back-call" was a term commonly used by commercial salesman, and the WTS at the time was trying to emphasize that their work was a non-commercial ministry.
This is what we were told back then as well. My husband came into the org in the 90's and he said the service meeting was just a sales meeting with a different name.
Why change colporter to pioneer?
Cole Porter was an American Composer of Broadway Musicals etc and that name was associated with having a good time, which would have been inappropriate . The term Pioneer was adopted because like the Amish, early JW's drove around in Covered Wagons. (4 door of course because 2 doors are just too hard to get in and out of)
Definition of COLPORTEUR: a peddler of religious books.
How could a Watch Tower colporteur say with a straight face, "We are not peddlers of God's Word", particularly before a judge in a court of law?
My husband came into the org in the 90's and he said the service meeting was just a sales meeting with a different name.
Very true. Well, not completely. I've been to a lot of boring sales meetings, but very few that were anywhere near as boring as a typical service meeting.
The theo-speak phrase with the shortest shelf-life was "rendezvous" which for a brief period in the sixties was used to describe a pre-appointed meeting for field service;
wife swappers
Minimus - we have not seen you in Wibble for some time.
I was in a congregation in Cleveland when the change occured the congregation was heavily saturated
with Italians what they said from the stage was that the mafia made back calls so we don't want
to use that terminology, we will use return visits.
i never heard that said about the Mafia.
