All Christian groups preach to a greater or lesser
degree. Simply saying that Witnesses have the 'truth'
because they go door to door is wrong.
A huge amount, maybe most, of the Witness work is
just pretense, phoney, -- bluntly put, a fraud. Witnesses
commonly count hours of time while spending only a
few actual minutes talking to someone - AND THAT often
involves small talk and selling Awake magazines about
mundane subjects vaguely related to anything scriptural.
If you really think that much of a 'ministry' is taking
place, you have to ask 'Why is this witness work so
utterly ineffective?' A CAREFUL ANALYSIS of baptisms
in Western lands will show you that most are kids
or people who knew/are related to Witnesses. Also,
the rate of growth amoung many Protestant groups is
higher than the organization, further telling you
how irrelevant most of this 'ministry' is.
Finally, a true story about early Christians.
Scholars found that some early Christians had odd names
related to garbage or excrement! The reason was that Romans
commonly dumped babies they didn't want in sewers or
trash heaps. Christians came and rescued babies and raised
them as their own (perhaps with a name that suggested their
origin). The Romans thought this was ridiculous, that
parents had a right to determine what children should live
or not.
Obviously, the early Christians showed a lack of regard
for putting in time in the door to door ministry. Think
how many more publishers could be made if they didn't waste
time taking care of someone elses' child. The babies
would just get a resurrection anyway, right?
The Witness 'ministry' at present, is an ugly, selfish
narrow thing, barely a ministry at all. Don't tell me
"we do it for love of neighbor" - you know for most
Witnesses, it's peer pressure - and the fear of being
destroyed at Armageddon.
metatron