Time Magazine's Cover Story June 30: Another WT Myth Exposed

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  • Room 215
    Room 215

    Another item for the ``Things -You'll Never -Read-About -in -Awake!" category: Check out the cover story of the June 30 Time magazine, ``Missionaries Under Cover," and compare it to the image of ``spiritually bankrupt" faithless Christendom with its ``do-nothing parishoners," laziness and rampant immorality fostered by the narrow, self-centered Watchtower world view.

    No need to summarise the article here; suffice it to say that it demolishes the WT claims that they alone are fulfilling the command to preach the Good News, that they have a monopoly on faith and courage in the face of death or that nobody but they are persecuted for those reasons.

  • blondie
    blondie

    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030630/somennon.html

    Keeping the Faith Without Preaching It
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    alt Some Christian groups active in Islamic countries avoid trying to convert the people around them alt
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    Posted Sunday, June 22, 2003

    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030630/sofilm.html

    A Starring Role for Jesus
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    alt How a 117-min. film became an evangelistic aid for people whose illiteracy ruled out the written word alt
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    Posted Sunday, June 22, 2003; 7:31 a.m. EST

    http://www.time.com/time/covers/1101030630/story.html

    Missionaries Under Cover
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    alt Growing numbers of Evangelicals are trying to spread Christianity in Muslim lands. But is this what the world needs now? alt
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  • teenyuck
    teenyuck

    I got the mail, sat on the front porch and read the whole article and extras looking for any reference to the JWs. None.

    The christians referenced are trying to convert muslims and they are, for the most part, doing much, much more. As in education, food, basic medical, etc. There are usually no requirements that you listen to their gospel to recieve this stuff. The really lifelong missionaries were really distressed by those two idiots in Afghanistan (the two women) who flaunted all the rules and openly preached. They made it more difficult for the *real* missionaries who are there for life.

    No mention of the JWs anywhere. That was a big surprise. They are lightweights in the missionary world.

  • wonderer2003
    wonderer2003
  • integ
    integ

    All the JW'S will say if confronted with this is that THEY are the only only ones preaching the "GOOD" news. Christendom's so called "missionaries" are preaching Satans' lies, so they don't count.

    Integ.

  • Room 215
    Room 215

    Quite right, Integ..... I guess for JWs, the Good News is that 99.9 percent of mankind (all of non-JW humanity and maybe half of their own kind who put in less than 10 hours of field service a month, or miss meetings, or smoke cigarettes, or swim in the local YMCA pool,or play the lottery, etc. etc. will be incinerated on some sort of arcane timetable which they've been trying to figure out for all of their 125 or so years. For these others, it's enough to preach Paul's ``Christ and Him crucified "(or impaled, if you prefer)..

  • DJ
    DJ

    There have been floods of Christian missionaries for two thousand years all over the world. The jw's just ignore that fact or are ignorant of it. I was. Even the tiniest chuches have missionaries who preach the true gospel. The jw gospel is a different one from the one that we have been given by God. Paul wrote, let them be accursed. Thanks for the post...I will try to get a copy. love, dj

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