These outfits spend a lot of time on the trail, so to speak, spreading their message, handing out information, and visiting with homes in different neighborhoods. For the most part these people are very polite, very friendly, very articulate, knowledgable, and know their doctrine somewhat well. They have a very organized system of visitation, witnessing, fellowship, study, meditation, and education, even though what they read, study, etc. is against what I believe to be the truth.
Those of you who blast these people because of their beliefs, how many of you have fellowship with your church family away from church? How many of you keep a journal of your visitations and how many of you can show by either a paper journal, or from recall how many people you have visited in their homes and brought the gospel to them, or at least asked them about their family, asked if there was anything you could do to assist them?
Seems everyone has a "bad" story about JW's or Mormons. Seems everyone is ready to fight to the death when the conversations come up about them, quick to insult them, quick to lash out against them, and find as much deragatory things to say about them as they can.
I have a friend that I work with, a dear friend. We see things differently where are faith is concerned, and we have at length discussions when time permits and talk about our differning views. He is a member of JW, and he has a very strict "regime" (for lack of a better word) of study and learning that would make many people who profess to be christian embarrassed if they were to put up their study, prayer, etc. to his.
Yes I think he's been misled, and yes I pray for him, and yes we have at times, some almost heated discussions about our doctrine, but we do so out of respect for each other as persons, as friends.
I might add that he was raised in a Baptist home, and what led him away from and towards the JW study was the pious nature that he saw in the church he went to growing up, the unloving attitudes from people who he only saw a couple times each week, and only at the church they went to.
Just wanted to throw in a small suggestion, that not everyone who is involved in JW or mormonism is evil...just misled, and misinformed. Perhaps we as christians could reach out to those who are lost and show them the love that God has for them, the truths that God has for them, and spend a little less time berating them.
Just a thought.
Those of you who blast these people because of their beliefs, how many of you have fellowship with your church family away from church? How many of you keep a journal of your visitations and how many of you can show by either a paper journal, or from recall how many people you have visited in their homes and brought the gospel to them, or at least asked them about their family, asked if there was anything you could do to assist them?
Seems everyone has a "bad" story about JW's or Mormons. Seems everyone is ready to fight to the death when the conversations come up about them, quick to insult them, quick to lash out against them, and find as much deragatory things to say about them as they can.
I have a friend that I work with, a dear friend. We see things differently where are faith is concerned, and we have at length discussions when time permits and talk about our differning views. He is a member of JW, and he has a very strict "regime" (for lack of a better word) of study and learning that would make many people who profess to be christian embarrassed if they were to put up their study, prayer, etc. to his.
Yes I think he's been misled, and yes I pray for him, and yes we have at times, some almost heated discussions about our doctrine, but we do so out of respect for each other as persons, as friends.
I might add that he was raised in a Baptist home, and what led him away from and towards the JW study was the pious nature that he saw in the church he went to growing up, the unloving attitudes from people who he only saw a couple times each week, and only at the church they went to.
Just wanted to throw in a small suggestion, that not everyone who is involved in JW or mormonism is evil...just misled, and misinformed. Perhaps we as christians could reach out to those who are lost and show them the love that God has for them, the truths that God has for them, and spend a little less time berating them.
Just a thought.
