It's the folks out there for whom no one plants seeds and no one prays I think about most often. Therefore I find myself praying without ceasing - for almost every lost soul I come across. It's tiring, but I ask myself when I meet (or even see across a crowded parking lot a person getting out of his/her car which has God-hating messages in bumper stickers) - what if there is NO ONE ELSE in this world to pray for the salvation of that person? It must be me, or I shall surely be accountable for all those missed opportunities. And if that's all I did in what may be 80 years in this life - with no recognition or awareness on the part of others that I did it - I would thank God for that calling.
All this is true, of course, not just of our Jewish friends and acquaintances. It is true as well for everyone who ignores or explains away Christ's offer of grace and tries to earn acceptance with God some other way. The gospel of Christ is wonderfully inclusive-but it is inclusive only for those who embrace it. Everyone else is excluded.
Some will undoubtably think this statement harsh, but it ultimately comes back to the issue of free will.......you choose, you decide.....because there isn't a person on this planet who is going to make you believe in anything.
Practicing what I preach, I don't object to JW's turning up at my doorstep (in fact, I wish more Christians matched their zeal and dogged devotion). What I object to is their claiming to believe the Word, while denying its fundamental teachings.
Dan