I wonder what will happen when door to door witnessing resumes?
I've heard on the grapevine that locally many new publishers were created during the Covid pandemic, both reactivated baptised publishers and a large number of unbaptised publishers.
I'm sure for them it was dead easy to sit on their comfortable sofa and write letters copied off a template and send them anonymously to strangers in the mail.
But it's a different ballgame entirely if they are expected to get dressed and go out knocking doors and be seen in public identifying themselves as JWs.
Who wants to bet that lots of those people will start to drift off into obscurity rather than go house to house?
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lost in the fog this is a very good point.
it has been very easy and comfortable being physically in the last few years. You get all the nice aspects of being in, the good association and invites to bbqs etc. Not much in the way of difficulty until we had to go back to the hall. But many stayed on zoom most of the time.
the letter writing thing fizzled out really long ago. Most just come on zoom for a good chat and catch up. Nobody writes many letters anymore.
When we are expected to go back to door to door it will be make or break
if it’s still going to be hybrid groups so that older ones can still write letters then once that can of worms has been opened it’s too late
I can see many folks getting the territory and ending up in coffee shop witnessing
