How do you handle unwanted evangelists who knock at your door?

[NYRIR]

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Witnesses are not prejudice against anyone. Jesus was Jewish...they'll be back at some point...sometimes the territories are big and it takes a while to get back to people...

 

[NYRIR]

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But at least you are respectful....that says a lot

I like open-minded people!

The ONE commandment that most Christians forget or ignore is "Love thy neighbor as you would love yourself". I am not perfect. I have moments where it is fun to make fun of another, however it is never done hatefully. I think that if Christians could focus on that ONE commandment, follow it, this green marble would be anicer place to be.

It'd be a HUGE step!! People can be so viscous... I laugh when people ask me if I am scared of my roosters....Umm...nope! They're easy!

 

[bgelber]

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Witnesses are not prejudice against anyone. Jesus was Jewish...they'll be back at some point...sometimes the territories are big and it takes a while to get back to people...

No I see them in the neighborhood, they just don't come to my house.

 

[debilorrah]

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The ONE commandment that most Christians forget or ignore is "Love thy neighbor as you would love yourself". I am not perfect. I have moments where it is fun to make fun of another, however it is never done hatefully. I think that if Christians could focus on that ONE commandment, follow it, this green marble would be anicer place to be.

It'd be a HUGE step!! People can be so viscous... I laugh when people ask me if I am scared of my roosters....Umm...nope! They're easy!

Roosters? Hello come meet my boss. LOL!

 

[Beekissed]

I think what offends most people about JW or COLDS(Church of the Latter Day Saints) is the fact they are not knocking on your door and simply giving you a message...they are knocking on your door time and again and being annoyingly persistent in their messaging. One cannot beat someone over the head with a Bible and convince them to accept Christ. I've had area churches that knock on the door and politely invite you to their church and give you a paper with the times of their services and their mission statement but they do not try to convince you to follow their doctrine on your front porch. This bothers me not the slightest. For that matter, JWs do not annoy me either but I know they annoy the heck out of most folks.

It would be much the same level of annoyance with any religion that repeatedly assaulted your privacy and insisted you listen to their ideas about faith....imagine a Muslim or Atheist or Messianic Jew showing up on your doorstep each week trying to get you to listen time and again. It is not the message they deliver that annoys people, it is the method which they use that does this. One cannot force someone to convert to Christ. Even Christ did not go door to door, he went town to town in open arena or in the synagogue or temple.

 

[saddina]

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Witnesses are not prejudice against anyone. Jesus was Jewish...they'll be back at some point...sometimes the territories are big and it takes a while to get back to people...

No I see them in the neighborhood, they just don't come to my house.

hmm i'm a bad liar, can i borrow your hubby next sat?

 

[saddina]

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Bee, I adore you a wee bit for this.

 

[whiteflare]

I know many JWs... they are absolutely great people, but I have to agree, they should stop knocking when someone rejects them.

It just seems a little offensive if they keep going back five, six times.

 

[debilorrah]

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He more went person to person. Which is what these door knockers are trying to do. Naturally, we cannot mimick Jesus, or can we?

 

[NYRIR]

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I know a lot of people share that thinking...they are only trying to teach you about what lies ahead and how things are going to change.They are worried about people surviving Armageddon and that is why they persist.It is not to annoy....I know it does a lot of people,but think if you had the cure for cancer...would you not keep shouting it out until everyone listened? That is how they feel...they know what the bible foretells and want to share it with everyone.The bible even foretells of this time when the preaching will be done. What I'd be scared of is when they stop knocking.....