Statistics 2007 Poor Growth Potential Europe

by hamilcarr 3 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  hamilcarr

  Here is an interesting comparison between high-ranking countries by peak witnesses and bible studies (as an indication of growth potential):

  Peak witnesses: Bible studies

  1. U.S. of America 1,084,005 1. Mexico 742,364

  2. Brazil 679,211 2. Brazil 736,714

  3. Mexico 639,320 3. U.S. of America 546,631

  4. Nigeria 302,405 4. Nigeria 484,405

  5. Italy 238,442 5. Congo, Dem. Rep. of 307,468

  6. Japan 218,691 6. Zambia 205,748

  7. Germany 165,348 7. Ghana 200,393

  8. Philippines 155,286 8. Angola 191,971

  9. Russia 150,056 9. Colombia 169,023

  10 Zambia 145,801 10. Japan 164,674

  No European countries in the top 10 in Bible studies! but instead five African and three Latin American countries. US and Japan are the only highly industrialized countries represented.

  So, the future of the Watchtower is gonna be Latin and Black America with a tiny Japanese hue and probably a few white English-speaking anointed men taking the lead.
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  MissingLink

  Those stats are a bit misleading (most stats are). More accurate would be total bible studes divided by total population to see where the growth is.
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  5go

  Give it time Japan will crash soon.
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  WTWizard

  I can remember when Japan was a showcase. Now they are treading water--once, they were baptizing people left and right, and one had to have an extenuating circumstance to not pioneer. And, now their growth is flat. They seem to have dropped down to the bottom of that list.

  Even better, of those that start studies, so many of them end up landing on apostate sites to research the religion. Since the religion is on such a poor foundation, that is all it takes to mess up those studies. They will not continue studying if they start seeing questions about spiritistic origins of the Watchtower doctrine, Booze Rutherford's antics, the reversals of doctrine, and all the botched predictions for Armageddon. And, if they see what direction the religion is headed, that will turn most of them off even worse.

  But, the worst turn-off is that they are being ordered not to use independent sources to research the accuracy of their Bible or doctrine. Any sincere study that runs into that rule is not going to want to continue the study. Anyone that breaks that rule is probably going to and not want to go back. Of course, when they arrive at the Kingdumb Hell and run into the rules, they are likely to do the independent research anyways and drop out.

  Hopefully, that keeps most of those alarming statistics on Bible (?) studies from becoming baptized publishers.