by micheal 6 Replies latest jw friends
After taking a count of my last 3 congregation phone lists 85% of those on the lists were born as jw's. What do you think that says about Jw having the true religion? Doesn't that mean that if you were not born into a jw family your as good as dead?
Something is very wrong here.
I think you are pretty accurate, and I can see that number only going higher.
How are they going to recruit new people, with so much info available at your fingertips. Oh they will find a few "new ones" from outside but not many.
Maybe the Wathctower will have to start pushing JW's to start having lots of kids.
hahahahahahaha
Well, I for one was not born into it.
Talk about being naive. Ugh!
But I think you are right Micheal. It has been touched on before on other threads about where increases will be.
Places where there is little to no internet access and limited outside world info on the JWs.
Aside from that, those on the inside, if they have children, that'll be where most of the increases will be.
Yes, a very large percentage are born into it or auto-converted when a parent joins. I was born into dubdom; I'd like to think I would never have joined if I was approached as an adult, but the cult has a way of tricking you!
I, too, was raised in the "truth". I often used to ask myself, "If I wasn't born into it, would I have listened to these people if they came to my door?" I never believed I would have.
Aside from that, those on the inside, if they have children, that'll be where most of the increases will be.
How ironic. After all the decades the borganization has spent discouraging couples from having a family, it may end up being the only way they can experience new growth.
In the area I live in it is more 50-50. The last CO took a survey. It depends. In the Spanish congregations the ratio was higher for coming in as a family member, larger families. It depends on the area. I will say this that based on those getting baptized, it is more 70% family and 30% from the outside.
Blondie
Currently, by the looks of it here in Japan, it's more like 95% are born into the organization. This is based on the actual ones being baptized at the assemblies and conventions. They are all teens and young adults who were raised as Jehovah's Witnesses from childhood on. I suppose the other 5% are those who eventually had succumbed to the pleads of their JW family members. I found that many JW Japanese households don't have their "fathers" in the organization. Japanese men are "work-a-holics" and are devoted to the companies they work for. These "fathers" of JW Japanese households are embarrassed if they were to reveal to their peers that they are passively associating with Jehovah's Witnesses, let alone to reveal that their own families are JW's (pioneers for that matter). Here in Japan, JW's are viewed as a cult, as like in many other places. And since there are many cult-like factions popping up here in Japan, the JW's are hard pressed for finding "other sheep" who will even listen to their message.
Alligator Wisdom (aka Brother "NOT" Exerting Vigorously")
