Before anyone gives me the "bears/wood" similarities, this is a post based on InsidetheKH's reply on the mormon v jw thread. (http://www.jehovahs-witness.net/watchtower/beliefs/287545/1/Who-is-copying-who-Jws-or-Mormons) I like to see WT friendly posts on here as some of the WT bashing displays the same logical fallacies as levelled against the WTS and it's followers so it's good to consider reasoned debate.
On the one hand I think ITKH makes a fair point if you compare the worldwide success of Mormons v JWs but there is an overall context to the preaching work that is completely ignored by those fully "in" and has been a major factor in my move from being an active Witness to one on the cusp of getting out. From a statistical point of view there are great headline numbers presented by the WTS but if you put them in the context of the number of Witnesses, conversation ratios, ratio of new Witnesses to birth rates, numbers that must be leaving, growth differentials across the globe, penetration in Muslim nations and so on then these numbers become meaningless. The world wide preaching work is anything but.
You then have to square this with the regular counsel on preaching being a warning work, those not making a choice being in line for destruction, bloodguilt, narrow road to life/broad road to destruction against the double standard of most witnesses believing that Jehovah will spare billions that don't get a proper witness because he is compassionate.
The "leave it up to Jehovah" thinking simply invalidates the preaching work. It's better if people do not know. It's better if we don't speak to them.
The preaching work is a waste of time. The numbers don't stack up and the "scriptural reasoning" simply produces a ridiculous dichotomy.
I am ready to hear from anyone who considers that it is anything but a waste of time.