Amazing Growth! Jehovah Is Blessing The Preaching Work!

by Divergent 29 Replies latest jw friends

  • Divergent
    Divergent

    Today's text:


    Saturday, April 2


    The little one will become a thousand.—Isa. 60:22.


    Perhaps we live in an area where there are few Witnesses or where we do not see a lot of immediate results in our preaching work. Yet, remembering that the Kingdom arrangement can overcome all obstacles will strengthen us to endure. For example, when Brother Edwin Skinner arrived in India in 1926, there were only a handful of Witnesses in that country. Initially, there was little progress, and the work was described as “hard going.” But he kept on preaching and saw how the Kingdom message overcame great obstacles. In 2013 there were over 37,000 active Witnesses in India, with over 108,000 attending the Memorial. In the same year that Brother Skinner arrived in India, the work had just started in Zambia. Now over 170,000 publishers preach there, and 763,915 attended the Memorial in 2013. This means that 1 in every 18 persons in Zambia attended. What amazing growth! w1412/15 1:8, 9

    Well, not that amazing - considering that JW's number just over 8 million in a world populated by 7.5 BILLION people!

  • jookbeard
    jookbeard
    not quite 8 billion yet but their efforts of well over 100 years of advertising their crap has really yielded a pathetic return, its over 7000 hours to convert one single recruit ! 37k jw's in a country of well over a billion, probably less in China and another billion plus inhabitants, that is NOT amazing growth
  • Divergent
    Divergent
    Correction made. It was supposed to read "more than 7 billion" instead of 8. And yes, 37,000 out of a country of more than a billion is nothing to shout about. So little growth in almost a century. They should be hanging their heads in shame instead!
  • Lieu
    Lieu
    Memorial attendance isn't growth, it's curiosity.
  • Lieu
    Lieu
    2 billion for India ... they rival China in population.
  • Pete Zahut
    Pete Zahut
    Do we know if the "growth" has occurred among actual East Indians or is it among westerners who for one reason or another are living in India?
  • kairos
    kairos

    Didn't the branch just reduce the scope of the work in India?

    Hmmmm...

  • Finkelstein
    Finkelstein

    By virtue of exclaiming the numbers, the increase in growth for the last 100 years it would appear that Jehovah isn't blessing this organization, considering the many false doctrines according to the bible that would make practical sense.

    Jehovah wouldn't back or support commercially inspired corrupt religoius charlatans.

  • alcyone
    alcyone

    When JW's talk about India they forget to mention Seventh Day Adventists growth

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_India

    1.5 million members! i understand the counting method is different, but anyway... And SDAs were founded in the same time as the JWs. To talk about the growth and to skip discussion of similar groups is pointless.

  • LostGeneration
    LostGeneration

    If size matters, then Catholics and Islamists are the true religion

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