Guess who came to my door...?

darkuncle29

Jehoovers?

Nope.

Two yummy Mormon missionaries?

No.

Two lovely Baptist Ladies.

I told them I was ex JW, and mentioned that the JWs have this smugness that they think they are the only ones who go door to door. Their reply was that that is exactly why they have started. Both of these ladies also have friends or family who became JWs. Interesting conversation, and it felt weird being on this side of the door, so to speak.

I was polite and listened, shared some of my JW story, but stopped short of prayer.

It was fun, but I see now that I am so beyond Xianity, that I almost can't relate to xians.

I pointed them this way just in case they wanted to look up JW information.

Odrade

LOL! Isn't that the truth! I told my mom last week that other religions come around to my house offering bible studies and literature. I think she thought I was lying though.

Honesty

The JW cult style of door 2 door is a joke when compared to the Christian style of door 2 door.

The JW's are so unorganised it's a wonder they get out of the Kingdumb Hell parking lot.

I went out evangelizing last Saturday with approx. 6500 other Christians from around the US. The territory maps we were given were professional and not hand cut out of a county map sold for $3 at the Chamber of Commerce. The information on the visitation report list makes the JW yearly report look like something thought up by a 2 year-old.

The message we took to people could be understood by a 4 year old. 455 people accepted Christ as their savior within a 2 hour period.

The message JW's take to people's doors is not the message that the early christians brought to mankind. I doubt if 455 people in Tennessee become JW's in a 5 year period let alone in a 2 hour period.

Odrade

455 people accepted Christ as their savior within a 2 hour period.

Do you mean that 455 people at doors told you that they accepted Jesus as their personal savior? Or 455 people joined your organization?

When I would preach, (as a JW,) LOTs of people told me they accepted Christ as their Savior. I didn't mark it on the territory card as a success...

If you DO mean that 455 people converted in a two hour period, do you think it will stick?

Sounds like a gross misrepresentation of reality to me, Honesty.

stillajwexelder

The Queen?

unbeliever

I always have to remind my dub family that witnesses don't have the market cornered when it comes to door knocking. I've had 3 different visits in the last 6 months from people inviting me to their church. I can't remember the last time a dub worked my street and of course they always skip my door. I must be on the do not call list.

ezekiel3

If you DO mean that 455 people converted in a two hour period, do you think it will stick?
Sounds like a gross misrepresentation of reality to me, Honesty.

I don't know, it's happened before...

(Acts 2:41) . . .Therefore those who embraced his word heartily were baptized, and on that day about three thousand souls were added. . .

Gross misrepresentation also? Maybe.

aniron

The church I attend does an "Outreach" work door to door once a week, usually a Friday.

As an ex-JW I was interested on how they did it.

It was just a case of meeting at the church, deciding which roads would be working and setting off.

No briefcases or bags, no magazines or books. All we had each was a Bible.

We introduced ourselves as coming from the church and we had come to speak about Jesus Christ and salvation.

It was amazing the number of people who were willing to stand and talk about it. The whys and wherefores of Christian faith.

If they talked about problems they had, we let them, we prayed with them.

The guy I was with and I got invited in so many times on the road we worked.

It took us three weeks to call on each house. Some at first thought we were JW's but when finding out we weren't were quite happy to speak to us.

We put no pressure on anyone, we invited them to come to the church on a Sunday and see for themselves, and that was it.

About 8 people asked us to call again of which 5 are now regular attenders at the church.

It was so different from when being a JW. You were not concious that you were trying to fulfill a time or place a magazine etc. I was so much more relaxed doing it.

Panda

When I was still a dub the local minister and his wife from some church(I really don't remember) came to our door to invite the community to their church. They were really nice and dressed in their saturday clothes... no tie no skirt... nice casual. That stuck with me because I found them quoite approachable (even though they didn't have the "Truth")

potleg

I've had people stop too, casuall dress with only a bible and a small tract inviting interested ones to their church. No canned message no confrontation or literature to buy or donate for, just a simple few words and even though I wasn't interested they weren't pushy at all. I always believed that real preaching should be simply sharing your experience from the heart of how your particular faith has been a blessing in your life and then inviting others to share it. Reminds me of when I was a teenager, I had a friend who hated the ministry, his presentation was" hey, you want to by some magazines". He's long gone and better off.

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