DID ANY OF YOU actually bring anybody into "the truth" from scratch?

by journey-on 22 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  journey-on

  In all my years of JWing, I never actually brought anyone up to the stage of baptism.

  I had Bible Studies occasionally, but they usually fizzled out after a while. I can't think

  of more than a small handful of witnesses that ever actually got a study from door-to-door

  field service and brought them all the way into the org. When I think about the congregations

  I've been associated with, most are made up of just a few families and their relatives. Our new

  baptisms were mostly the kids of those families...very seldom anyone from scratch. What was

  your experience? Maybe my indoctrination technique was faulty.
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  WTWizard

  No. I only got one "study" started, and that fizzled after the first session. And I never had any interest in starting any, either.

  Thank [the Watchtower] Satan I never brought anyone into the cancer by myself.
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  quietlyleaving

  nope not from scratch

  the one person I did study with (it was passed on to me) got disfellowshipped
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  stillajwexelder

  No -I have had studies but thankfully never brought anyone in
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  SnakesInTheTower

  my mom and dad were "from scratch" witnesses...contacted in door-to-door by special pioneers...mom first...then dad. Dad died "faithful"...mom still is.....

  I pioneered off and on for 10 years...I never had a study "progress" digress...not even the kids I studied with...I think none of those kids are in ....LOL

  Snakes ()
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  Awakened at Gilead

  Yes actually I did help a few along to get baptized. Most had been studying with others and then I helped put the last nail in the coffin...

  Some others I found in the field, and they went on to study with others and got baptized...

  What a crying shame and waste of time...

  AaG
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  Casper

  Not a one... started several studies, they lasted for a few months and then, they either wised up, or moved... LOL.

  I can only remember a couple newly converted ones that actually progressed to baptism. Our hall was made up mostly of about 4 prominent families and their extended relatives... in all my 13 years I never saw any real growth.

  Cas
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  oompa

  For sure I made the first scratch...I placed a Truth book with a couple when I was 11....made the back-calls....of course with parents, and then they studied and big the big dip...raised their two little girls in it too..................I just wanted a quarter..............oompa
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  Nathan Natas

  I am proud to say I DID NOT. I had a few -- very few -- Bible studies, but for some reason those people never decided to pull the trigger and blow their brains out.
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  journey-on

  For sure I made the first scratch...I placed a Truth book with a couple when I was 11....made the back-calls....of course with parents, and then they studied and big the big dip...raised their two little girls in it too..................I just wanted a quarter..............oompa

  Do you know if they are still in? Yellow highlight: I wasn't allowed to keep my quarter!! I had to put it in the contribution box, and I made sure I did because if I didn't, Jehovah was watching and would destroy me at Armageddon.