_________________________________________________________________ If the Catholics were to list every land that they preached in it would be every country in the world. If the Catholics were to list every language that they have translated Scripture into it be more than anybody in any other religion. If the Catholics were to list all of their congregations it's liable to be over 1 million.
You say that you have 7 1/2 million ministers who teach the Bible but you only have 111,000 congregations.
It is pretty amazing that out of 7 1/2 million members of the church you are able to get 12 million to attend your convention and 19 million to attend your memorial services. It is also very impressive that you can get so many members of your church to go door-to-door to leave tracks for people to read.
But again to further explain the problem in hand the Jehovah's Witnesses have their own translation of the holy Bible which does not conform to anyone else’s.
The Jehovah's Witnesses do not have a person on earth who can make yes or no decisions instead they have a council of elders that meets and decides questions of doctrine.
For you to say that you have 7 1/2 million ministers who teach the Bible would compare to Catholics having 800 million ministers who preach or teach the Bible. In my humble opinion which is only that and belongs only to me; passing out watchtowers door-to-door a few hours each month is not the same thing as sending missionaries into a foreign country. Missionaries who do nothing except preach the gospel of Jesus Christ.
I am not speaking ill of Jehovah's Witnesses but, comparing your 7 1/2 million ministers who teach the Bible when you only have 7 1/2 million members of your entire church to me is disingenuous. When you're 7 1/2 million ministers of the Bible start working full-time at being ministers of the Bible, of taking care of fledgling congregations, of teaching the gospel to people who have never heard it before, then perhaps we will have something to talk about. While you have 7 1/2 million missionaries preaching your gospel, the Mormons have only 80,000. Those 80,000 are however full-time they leave their homes and families for two years and do nothing except work for The Lord. they are not even allowed to work outside to earn income to eat with, they have to earn their income before going on their missions. While Catholic priests do have a stipend or salary it is nothing to write home about, and it is for their entire life, not just a few hours a month. Their salaries allow them to have a few personal effects and not much more. I do not recall ever having said ill of any church certainly not the Jehovah's Witnesses. But bragging about 7 1/2 million ministers in this particular context is at least disingenuous.
And most obviously not “disingenuous” either!