NEW BLOG - Door-to-Door; is that really what counts?

by passwordprotected 5 Replies latest watchtower beliefs

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  passwordprotected

  "Door-to-Door"; is that really what counts?

  Please feel free to share.

  Jehovah’s Witnesses proudly point to their door-to-door work as fulfilling scriptures like Matthew 24:14;

  And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come.

  Even though it is provable and measurable that many Christian groups have ministries, spreading the Gospel of Christ, distributing Bibles and baptising in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, a faithful Jehovah’s Witness will be quick to point out that they alone go from house-to-house and door-to-door, as per the 1st C model;

  Acts 5: And every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus

  Acts 20: while I did not hold back from telling YOU any of the things that were profitable nor from teachingYOU publicly and from house to house.

  This is the argument used to ‘prove’ that Jehovah’s Witnesses alone are the true Christians and that their ministry alone is the only one approved by Christ.

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  keyser soze

  Acts 5: And every day in the temple and from house to house

  This scripture has been taken out of context by JWs. It isn't referring to going randomly to people's homes, and sharing the message, but rather when they were invited to do so. If anything, it is better exemplified in the book study arrangement.
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  passwordprotected

  @ keyser - yeah, I cover that in brief in the blog post. I'm focusing on what happens after the door-to-door.
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  wobble

  Well done again Password! That is something that I had not thought of,and everytime I speak with a Witless it is mentioned "We arethe only ones" etc.

  Of course Keyser is right,Acts 5 refers at best to a Return Visit type call,perhaps to the home of a JEW who had shown interest in the Market say,because the work had not yet been opened up to the Gentiles ,not until 5 chapters later in Acts,so it is hardly talking about a door to door work.

  And the other scripture is Paul talking about teaching those who became older men in Ephesus,so again going from the house of one interested person to the house of another.

  Right then Dubs,where is your 1st. Centuary pattern now?

  You don't follow any method that they did,you teach a different Gospel,you don't let the new one get baptised forthwih,and when you do it's into an Organization not the Father,Son and Holy Spirit!

  Love

  Wobble

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  passwordprotected

  @ wobble, absolutely. I try to be careful in my blog posts not to give the JWs an easy out by saying "Ah! You see this is where...." etc etc. I prefer to let them have a couple of jabs, then reel them in for the big upper cut... In otherwords, I try to avoid being overly confrontational as it's difficult to reason with a JW if they've got their dukes up.

  Jeez, what's with all the boxing analogies?
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  besty

  I guess the Reasoning Book has a section on 'instant salvation - why not for true christians?'

  any takers?