If All Early Christians Were Preachers...... Who Worked & Cooked The Meals?

minimus

The Watchtower says that ALL early Christians were preachers. You couldn't be a Christian if you weren't a preacher/teacher. How would you refute that?

blondie

The women disciples cooked the food for Jesus and the apostles. Why would the men mess with a good thing when the Christian congregation was formed.

Luke 8:1-3 ***

8 Shortly afterwards he went journeying from city to city and from village to village, preaching and declaring the good news of the kingdom of God. And the twelve were with him, 2 and certain women that had been cured of wicked spirits and sicknesses, Mary the so-called Mag'da·lene, from whom seven demons had come out, 3 and Jo·an'na the wife of Chu'za, Herod’s man in charge, and Su·san'na and many other women, who were ministering to them from their belongings.

And the WTS expands:

*** w75 12/1 717 Christian Greatness Comes from Serving ***

They may have done shopping and cooking, the mending and washing of clothes, or performed other services of a similar nature, even using their own funds and possessions to supply needed materials.

*** w71 8/1 457 The Christian Ministry-What Does It Include? ***

How did they ‘minister’? Likely by rendering services such as the preparing of meals, mending or washing clothes, perhaps even making such garments. (Compare Acts 9:36-39; Romans 16:1, 2.)

Blondie

minimus

Damn Blondie, You are quick! So there's no way they could have done all that and knocked on doors too.

blondie

Why not, minimus? Today women work a full-time job, cook, clean, sew, raise the children, look after their aging parents and still manage to be sexy sirens at night.

Blondie

minimus

If they did all that, they couldn't preach from house-to-house, make return risits, conduct Bible studies and prepare for all the meetings too.

JH

Woman are superior to us Minimus. They can do all that...

blondie

It brings to mind the old quote about how Ginger Rogers had to do everything Fred Astaire did, only backward and in high heels.

We are women hear us roar...

Blondie

bluesapphire

And they wouldn't have time to get their colored highlighters and highlight their watchtowers ..... wait!!!!

Did they have highlighters back then? Did they have paper to print watchtowers??????

Warrigal

Its the WTS line that everyone was a preacher back then. Did Jesus command the Samaritan woman at the well to preach? How about Nicodemus? Did Joseph of Arimathea have a magazine route? Did the Roman Cornelius get sent forth to preach? How about the Ethiopian eunuch to whom Philip preached?

Matt. 28:19 and 20 was addressed to the Apostles...not the 144,000 and not the "other sheep". Its the Watchtower Society who benefits by gang pressing everyone into the preacher mold.

minimus

I don't think ALL Christians were to be preachers and teachers or evangelizers or apostles. The 12 apostles were supposed to be these things. I never thought I was an apostle, thank God.

If All Early Christians Were Preachers...... Who Worked & Cooked The Meals?

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