Public Talk invitations ....Next to .Zero Attendees

by smiddy3 16 Replies latest jw experiences

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  smiddy3

  From my conversion at the end of 1959 to my leaving the J.W`s about early 1993 I remember especially in the first 20 -30 years or so giving out invitations to public talks that were to be given at our local K.H. every time I went out in the service witnessing from door to door week in week out I would leave these tracts at not at homes or whoever would accept them .

  And in my personal experience I cannot recall more than five worldly / non J.W. people , if that , who came to a public talk as a result of the invitations given at the doors in our witnessing work in the 33 years of my being an active Jehovah`s Witness .

  And none of them ever became a Jehovah`s Witness .

  Was it just me ? or do you have similar experiences to share .
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  sir82

  Every year JWs distribute hundreds of millions of invitations to their Memorial event, and hundreds of millions more invitations to their regional conventions.

  Attendance is virtually unchanged year over year, there are small increases but these are really quite small.

  In fact, the rate of year over year attendance growth is much lower than in the period prior to these big "invitation campaigns".

  Talk about a waste! Literally billions of pieces of paper handed out over the past decade and response is even less than if they didn't even bother with it.
  
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  nugget

  My first memory of service is handing out tracts for a special talk. No one ever came I was in the organisation for 4 decades so it was a lot of hard work for nothing.
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  ttdtt

  Pulling teeth has always been easier.

  I think the real LAUGH was handing invites to District Conventions.

  Yea I cant get a bible study to come to a meeting in the same town, so Strangers are gonna drive 60 miles to go to a JW assembly.

  Just Busy work to keep the R&F occupied.
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  sir82

  Strangers are gonna drive 60 miles to go to a JW assembly.

  Or 100 or 200.

  Or how about, say, JWs in a Chinese congregation in St. Louis MO handing out invitations to their convention in Detroit Michigan?

  "Hello, random stranger, please accept this invitation to drive 1000 miles to a city you've never been to, where you know no one, to attend a convention from a religion you've never heard of, featuring talks based on a book which you've never read describing a god you don't believe in."
  
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  eyeuse2badub

  Don't feel too bad smiddy3! Noah AND his 7 FAMILY members preached for 100 or so years and couldn't even convince one, not EVEN ONE person to get into the mythical Ark! And they were living in the time of the END also!!

  WTF, all the busy work to build the Ark and not one convert? jehober couldn't soften the heart of one soul? WOW!

  just saying!
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  OrphanCrow

  Eyeusedtobadub: Noah AND his 7 FAMILY members preached for 100 or so years and couldn't even convince one, not EVEN ONE person to get into the mythical Ark!

  Can you please show me the Bibble verses that say that? I think I missed that part...
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  scratchme1010

  Was it just me ? or do you have similar experiences to share .
  

  I think that it was a common thing. The WT is made of a bunch of inexperienced, unprofessional, undereducated, yet, cocky, crass and confident about knowing what they are doing.

  They have absolutely no clue about strategy, organizational development, technology administration, not even basic financial planning.

  Long ago, some JW idiot decided that that's the most effective way of reaching out to people. No one seem to have ever question it, so they have gone along with it for over a century.
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  sir82

  Can you please show me the Bibble verses that say that?

  The WTS hangs their entire teaching on that point to this one verse (highlight mine):

  2 Peter 2:5: And he did not refrain from punishing an ancient world but kept Noah, a preacher of righteousness safe with seven others when he brought a flood upon a world of ungodly people

  WTS theology holds that Noah went around "preaching" to his neighbors, urging them to repent, or to at least get on the ark.

  I don't believe they have ever printed that he went "door to door", but I wouldn't put it past them to write that some day.

  I think I missed that part...

  Don't feel bad. Every one of the billions of non-JWs has "missed that part" as well.
  
  
  
  
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  Vidiot

  sir82 - "WTS theology holds that Noah went around 'preaching' to his neighbors, urging them to repent, or to at least get on the ark."

  This one always felt iffy to me, even back in the day.

  If he was going around to his neighbors "preaching" about an impending - albeit watery - apocalypse (hmm, sound familiar? ), how the ever-loving fukk would he have had time to build the actual thing, then?

  Pretty sure a boat that big built by hand would have needed every available spare hand.