Posted on 02/27/2021 6:50:34 AM PST by Cronos
Before COVID-19 reached the United States, Roderick and Danesha Allen spent an estimated 60-70 hours every month going door to door.
As Jehovah's Witnesses, spreading their message is a central part of their religion, and witnesses have been doing so "door to door" for years.
"That was our go to," said Roderick Allen, who lives with his wife near West Memphis, Arkansas. "We spent a lot of time knocking on doors, talking to strangers about the Bible, something we both really, really enjoyed, being able to connect with people, show an interest in people and their situations.”
But for the first time in the history of Jehovah's Witnesses, public ministry, including that trademark, was shut down in the second week of February 2020. The denomination also closed 13,000 congregations across the United States, seeking to slow the spread of the virus.
Carts were taken off street corners, and Jehovah's Witnesses stopped knocking on doors.
But the changes, like knocking on doors in the first place, are all in line with Jehovah's Witness beliefs, said Robert Hendriks, national spokesperson for the Christian denomination.
..."He (Jesus) told us things are going to get worse, but he also told us what to do," she said.
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I wondered where those creeps went.
They have the brainwashed “wide-eyed” look of all cults.
My dog is getting lonely—no strangers to bark at...
Back in the mid 1980s the JWs knocked on my door to tell me that if I joined them I would not get AIDS...why arent they doing the same for the Wu Hu Flu...
I’m started getting phone calls from them now.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Uh, I believe the Lord was talking about the Bidet presidency.
I was thinking the same thing. We had a couple of JW kids in my seventh grade class in 67 and they wouldn’t participate in the Pledge of allegiance or Christmas parties. I thought they were weird then and even more now.
The last time they came to the door...I said...Aren’t you the guys who have lotsa wives”. No answer...and I shut the door.
They’re a cult.
The other day I was cold called by a JW.
Very strange.
Correction...Not JW...The young men were Mormons.
Ummm, some confusion here, Mormon’s practice Polygamy
Yes...I corrected it just before your post
Aren’t there more than 140,000 of them now?
I live on one of their training routes. When I first moved into my house I answered the door. The next month I didn’t. That was back in 1987. They assume everyone they meet have no faith at all. That is kind of insulting because I give out lots of vibes that I am a practicing Christian.
I got a hand-written letter from one last month.
It’s weird opening a letter from an absolute stranger, isn’t it? I got one myself about a month ago.
According to the official JW website (JW.org), they are now calling themselves Christians, though they are quick to point out that they differentiate themselves from “others who call themselves Christians”.
As I recall from growing up in SoCal (where there is a high concentration of JW’s), however, that was not always so. The literature I saw of theirs then explicitly denied it.
I enjoy talking to them when they come to our door. My wife and I love to engage them. We wear them out with our bibles. Love to point out passages of scripture that they have no answer for. Often, they leave but send their more experienced elders to work on us.
No, they’re not Christians.
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