Comforter, Going door to door doing the preaching is not work from the Lord. That is righ and I am about to prove it not only by the words of Jesus but using scripture.
Comfortor do you know Jesus was asked a direct question by his disciples about the Work of God? I like to take you to tthe word of Jesus who did answer this direct questoin:
28 "What can we do to perform the works of God?" they asked. 29 Jesus replied, "This is the work of God: that you believe in the One He has sent."
30 "Then what sign are You going to do so we may see and believe You?" they asked. "What are You going to perform?
Notcie Jesus after this premromed no miricle or even hinted about a mass preaching door to door work.
BTW, in the same text of John Jesus also answers on the will of God, which is not the preaching work but, let see what he says in John 6:
37 Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never cast out.
38 For I have come down from heaven, not to do My will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
39 This is the will of Him who sent Me: that I should lose none of those He has given Me but should raise them up on the last day.
40 For this is the will of My Father: that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day."
So Jesus now answer 2 questions which were dircetly asked to him and Jesus gave in both cases direct answers. Can anybody argue against the fact that the preacing work is the will of God or the Work of God? In fact the if you look up what is the Gospel or Good News in 1 Cor. 15:1-11:
1 Now brothers, I want to clarify for you the gospel I proclaimed to you; you received it and have taken your stand on it. 2 You are also saved by it, if you hold to the message I proclaimed to you--unless you believed to no purpose. 3 For I passed on to you as most important what I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, 4 that He was buried, that He was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, 5 and that He appeared to Cephas, then to the Twelve. 6 Then He appeared to over 500 brothers at one time, most of whom remain to the present, but some have fallen asleep. 7 Then He appeared to James, then to all the apostles. 8 Last of all, as to one abnormally born, He also appeared to me. 9 For I am the least of the apostles, unworthy to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God. 10 But by God's grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God's grace that was with me. 11 Therefore, whether it is I or they, so we preach and so you have believed.
I think Jesus knows the will of his father, the work of the Father and what is the gospel.
He did give us a divine comission
Notice the comission means:
commission (k
n.
- The act of granting certain powers or the authority to carry out a particular task or duty.
- The authority so granted.
- The matter or task so authorized: Investigation of fraud was their commission.
- A document conferring such authorization.
A group of people officially authorized to perform certain duties or functions: The Federal Trade Commission investigates false advertising.often Commission A ruling council within the Mafia that adjudicates family disputes and regulates family activities. The act of committing or perpetrating: the commission of a crime.A fee or percentage allowed to a sales representative or an agent for services rendered.
An official document issued by a government, conferring on the recipient the rank of a commissioned officer in the armed forces. The rank and powers so conferredin Matthew 28:18-20:
18 Then Jesus came near and said to them, "All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
19 Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
20 teaching them to observe everything I have commanded you. And remember, I am with you always, to the end of the age."
He did not say just go door-to-door. Some churches besides Jehovah's Witnesses go door-to-door. Door to door was the method used in Jesus day. Most famlies lived together with slaves (workers) Most also work the famliy business, many never even moved more than 20 miles from their home in their life time. Plus the person who broght the gospel taught a whole household and stayed for many months. Hosptality was a not only a custom of the time, but it was a way of survial for those who traveled. Most hotles or inns were run by prostitution in Jesus day.
In the way Jesus gave us the Divine comission, he also left room for more modren methods.
Print is one way Even Jehovah's Witness use today to spread their version of the gospel. In the past JWS used phongraphs, even had a radio station with shows (I used to listen to them) Many have use Phone Wtinessing (MMM JW Telemarketers) now in many area running commercials and informericals.
So so many Christian churches use these means also. In fact many evangelical groups have TV stations which broadcasst in parts of the world Jehovah's Witness are not yet fully in. Door to door methods are not as effective in those countires.
Let us not all forget the Internet here. I personally feel it will be the last and greatest attempt to preach the gospel. the 2 groups.
Because a group does not go door-to-door does not mean it does not have Jehovah's Holy Spirit to preach behind them. Maybe the group listen a long time ago to phase out the door to door work because for the time or age is is goingto become less efficent. Other method are more effective, and less costly. Anyone who runs a ministry including the Watchtower Organization knows it takes resources to run it.
The local church does the sheparding, many support and witness about Jesus. Some have large ministry, many media based to appeal to mass audinece, or like my appeal to a smaller audience like Jehovah's Witnesses. All of them also have Jesus blessing.
Some still go door to door but not in a united effert as a Jehovah's Witnesses. I just find at least in the USA door to door is getting for ineffective as modren society is never home. Most are reached though other methods. That is why Jesus did not say how to do the divine comission, he just said like Nike, Just do it, let him handle the rest.
