Does anyone remember the little training sessions we used to have at the service meetings that used to show us how to do the magazine work more effectively?
Basically, the Awake! magazine was the one that featured mainly when selling magazines from door to door. We were taught to compare it to the Readers Digest magazine as we were giving our sales pitch, with only a passing reference to the watchtower as a "Bible based" mag.
In this fashion, we used to be able to portay ourselves as fairly normal people who were selling a mag that was also fairly normal too. The Watchtower was slipped in to the package almost surreptitiously with the householder being - hopefully - unaware that he had just become the recipient of a witness mainstream publication.
Anyone remember this? Is the ministry work still divided into 2 categories, sermon and magazine work?
Englishman.