Interesting quote from the DC

GoodGuyGreg

I don't know if anybody else has mentioned this, but I'm currently at a DC in Sweden, and this morning, during the symposium on different kinds of service, it was mentioned that 40% of baptisms are the result of informal witnessing. If you add the number of baptisms of children of Jw parents to this, how many are left that are baptized as a result of the door-to-door work? Doesn't sound very effective at all...

cantleave

The D2D work is simply a control mechanism to keep the rank and file busy!

jookbeard

I'd even question the 40% coming from informal conversion probably another spin.

punkofnice

it was mentioned that 40% of baptisms are the result of informal witnessing

Rubbish. When I was attending the baptisms I'd say 99 to 100% of the 'candidates(TM)' were born ins.

joe134cd

Punkofnice=I agree with what you are saying. I would say that the majority would be young Borne in kids. Bullshit about the 40%. Bit I do agree that the only increase in the D2D work is angry people.

Julia Orwell

Off all the converts I've known I can probably count on both hands how many were picked up at the doors. Most were picked up by friends, family, people at work or school or otherwise informally.

joe134cd

Agree with you there to Julia.

AndDontCallMeShirley

When you look at the growth of religions like the Adventists and Baptists, who have no door-to-door preaching work like JWs, and those religions are growing faster than JWs, it shows D to D has little/if anything to do with gaining converts.

Door to door preaching is WT's "trademark", brand recognition, and as mentioned, a control mechanism. It is a way to hijack huge chunks of a JWs time and resources in order to fool them into thinking they are following god's commands.

1.7 billion hours a year to gain 250,000 converts (and at least 50% of those are born-ins) is a collosal waste of time.

GoodGuyGreg

@Punk:

I don't think the ratio of born-ins is way up there all over the world. But neither do I think that door-to-door service does the org any good other than instilling the sense of differentness into the pubs. As @Julia wrote, I believe almost all outsiders who convert do it because of personally knowing a witness and being witnessed to informally, so that number might not be far from the truth. I just found it pretty intesting that they actually would go and say such a thing and then go on telling the poor audience that it's the door-to-door work that's the important and life-saving one. The speaker obviously didn't think of that statement, and neither did the CO when listening to the rehearsal.

Think About It

The 40% number is a Watchtower lie. It's probably more like 40% of informal witnessing converts are unstable nutjobs.

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