Brothers and Sisters have you recently had someone knock on YOUR door? To witness to you??

when my children were young they were hospitalized a few times and preachers would come in the room. A young priest was very new and I commented on his tiny bible..and how could he read the print...I asked him to read me some scriptures and explain them...Then I explained them to him....I was raised Catholic and they neglect to teach the bible....so I taught this young priest over the course of the week we had to stay there...at the end of the week we were getting ready to go home when he came in...knelt beside the bed and cried. I am leaving the priesthood because you have shown me the truth of God and that was a very special moment...especially since I was only a bible study myself and not yet baptized. I had no literature with me...only a all consuming zeal and love for Our Creator and a willingness to share what I knew.

A similar week was spent in another town with a baptist preacher visiting all week...the week of xmas...and he told me after many discussions that Jehovah's Witnesses truly had the right faith. What a great thing to say about our way of life.

We all have had that experience at some point. In my sarcastic mind there is a lot humorous with the situation.

Your mild replies to his growing rage is precious. That his lies did not cause you to say how pious he was hurt.

The biggest laugh is while he used his Bible as a stage prop, you knew what was inside it thoroughly.

Now I am just being sarcastic and I know not to be realistically.

I have had some preachers come to my door. None have any idea what Jesus' command of a witness work is. None even brought a Bible with them. Mostly they just invited me to their churches. A couple gave a tract. None had any biblical insight.

When we go to a door, we have a purpose of sharing with each person some insight from the Bible. We carry a Bible and know how to use it. (Sarcastic again, sorry.) We are prepared to answer peoples' questions about the Bible as true Christians should always be ready.

Hi John, I had surgery last summer and missed my assemby and couldn't go to the meeting so I know how you feel, its horrible not being able to serve Jehovah as we want but look after yourself and soon you'll be up and back in the saddle. Well, I don't have anything really spectacular but yesterday on the ministry we were doing a building and everyone seemed to know who we were and say "NO!" not ever leaving us time to finish an introduction. Anyway, in my head I thought, "we're not going to find anyone heree" (the building was quite chic and the people quite well to do.. anyway, nearly the last door I knocked and a man came to the door, he listened to my introduction and when I asked the question he thought about it and answered that it sounded good (Paradise) but he couldn't believe it to be true. We went on to have a really good discussion, I went all the way through my presentation placed my magazines and he agree for us to come back and told us he thinks his girlfriend would also be interested. It was so pleasant to talk to him and I said to the brother I was with you just never know, those sheep are in there, hidden and difficult to locate but there, just waiting for us. I don't know how things will turn out - the brother is going back with his wife since they're a couple - but it helped me to finish the morning with a smile on my face. Anyway, get well soon! Sunshine (Rosie)

That has never happened to me, but that could be I live in a small town in rural PA. My husband did take my kids to a community kids day yesterday, and a stand was giving out balloon animals along with an invitation to a free skating party to all the young children in the area, the man actually said to my husband "parents are welcome but if you just want to drop your kids off there will be people there to watch them". Guess my hubby looked like he needed a night off :) (NOTE my kids are 1 and almost 3, they don't go anywhere without me or my husband or maybe my parents. Especially not a "free skating party" with adults I've never met.) My kids thought the balloon animals were cute (however they of course popped the poor things before to long) and I thought that was a nice thing for someone in the community to offer. Later we realized as I was throwing it away (for above reason stated) that stamped on the back was the name and address of a local church that was sponsoring it, as well as a message that the children would have a "faith building fun night".

What disturbed me besides the whole basic offer of a free babysitting night with people you don't know, was the fact it was geared towards children not mature adults, I guess it was the whole get em while they are young attitude- but kind of hide it from the parents part. That was the most my family has ever been witnessed to. I have friends of other faiths and we share nice discussions but I wouldn't count that as the same thing.

We have had 2 visitors in the past 6 years here. One was from the local Baptist church and one from the LDS. The young Mormons were polite and nice to talk to and not a bit put off that I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses. The Baptists acted much like your's did. As soon as I told him my faith the smile dropped off his face and his two lady companions took a step back. lol They always immediately go straight to the trinity...then hellfire. They didn't stay long and have never come back.

When we came home from service just this saturday, the Bible Baptist church had left a phamplet in the BACK door. We simply threw it away in the outside can. Hubby didn't even want it in the home. Funny you asked.

The two churches will do this in our neighborhood every so often. They don't carry Bibles, so they can't answer any Bible questions, they simply hand out phamplets inviting you to their churches. That's all. We hardly get anyone else. Maybe once a year a mormon will pop up.

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Well, no, not recently. I live really far fom town, but there are 3 houses and a church on my lane. People from the church have come twice in the past 8 years and invited us to their services. When a group of women came, I told them we were Jehovah's Witnesses and wouldn't be interested in attending, but we still had a nice visit and discussed the different flowers in the yard. :) The other time their minister came and also offered one of those standard tracts on how to be saved by asking Jesus into your heart, which my husband took, and invited him to church. I don't know what else was said.

Where I used to live, we had two Mormom ladies come by and offer to show us a video on happy family life. Then, oddly, two more women came from a baptist church- a church in a town about 30 miles away! They invited us to their services, but I did not understand why they came to our town, so far away when there were plenty of churches nearby.

So that was all fine. The only time I got irritated was the time a man saying he was a preacher came by. He handed me a business card, and invited me to his church, saying there were lots of folks my age and outlining their schedule of social activities. When I told him I was a Witness and wouldn't be interested, he made this dreadful face and said, "I wish you'd get out of that", several times. He offered no reasoning or scriptural encouragement, didn't even have his Bible with him. That did not seem to me to be a good way to attract people to his church.....

But everyone else was pretty nice.

I had a similar experience several years ago. A "deacon" (sp) from one of the local Baptist churches came to our door and we calmly disputed many of his beliefs straight from his bible. We explained that though there is a hell, mankinds common grave, we don't agree with him that the dead remain conscious and metioned Ecc 9:5 & 10 and that they are in some bizzarre torture chamber that God created.

We basically had an answer for all of this "burn in hell" fear tactics. The sad part was, when he first started talking to us and we said we were JW he said he didn't know anything about our beliefs, then right before he left, all flustered, he pulled a tract out of his front shirt pocket. His church had provided them with it, it was suppose to help him "witness" to a Witness.

I ask him if he also had any little crib notes for any other religions like the Catholics, after all they have very different beliefs about praying to Mary using rosary beads and purgatory. He looked like a deer in the headlights with that question.

We used to have an employee that worked for us and he really liked us although he was a non denominational christian (what is that?). We were at one of our stops for business (we own a vending company) and we saw a man asking someone else if their "soul was saved".

Steve kinda laughed and said "that guys lucky he didn't ask you that question, you would have set him straight." It made me feel wonderful.

I offered Steve a bible study many times but his whole family went to his church and even though he didn't agree with everything being taught (trinity) he couldn't go aginst his family. He was more concerned with pleasing his family than pleasing Jehovah God. It makes me a little sad to think back on it.

Well, I have had members from The Church of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints knock on my door. They were an American couple (I mean two chaps and not a married couple) We had a pleasant enough conversation and they were polite enough. But when they mentioned that Joseph Smith received new scriptures from God, I did reply 'Oh! you mean like Muhammad?' It kind of went down hill from then. I was not trying to catch them out or be disrespectful. But I think they thought I was going to become argumentative, which I was not. Shame, really. Never mind....'Cest-la-vie'

Very interesting experience indeed. A few times a year we had people from a few local churches come by and leave a flyer inviting us to their church (never with a Bible). I tell them I'm one of Jehovah's Witnesses and that they are more than welcome to come to the hall anytime. Some snatch the flyer and leave (and I give them a hearty, "Thanks for stopping by and have a nice day!"). Others ask questions about our faith and have followed along in my Bible with me as I explained why we preach mainly, but they asked a lot about death too.

I live in a private community and once they came through and left flyers in the door and they blew all over the grounds. Management was very upset and put up no solicitation/handbills signs. Several of my neighbors enjoy the discussions they have with witnesses and a few of my neighbors study so they complained. lol Management said, "Oh, the sign doesn't apply to the witnesses, we've never had any problems or complaints about their visits".

So make sure if you leave tracks in peoples doors they are snug and not visible to passerbys! lol