No need to be disrespectful or downright cruel just because you disagree with their message. . .

Quite possibly true but in my personal exp. I've met more downright mean nasty Christians than I care to remember.

If'n ya don't walk their walk and talk their talk you are scum.

I resent anyone barging onto my property and prostelitizing their beliefs on me. Be they Mormons ,JWs, or anyone with a religious, political,or moral agenda. I asked the last group what gave them the right to trespass on my property with an agenda that I don't believe in and don't want to hear their ridiculous rationales. One told me he did not see a no trespassing sign. I responded ,"this is Texas, if you are not invited,it is trespassing." How I dealt with the JWs is kind of rotten, but it bought me 20 years of peace. We live in what was a very rural subdivision. Strangers were very noticeable and not a common occurance. I saw the JWs when I returned from running an errand and thought they will not bother me. About 20 or 30 minutes later I saw them walking down my long driveway. I whistled for Greta my champion Rottweiler and told he r to stay at the door. Naturally when the doorbell rang Greta did her Rottweiler thing. I got a firm grip on her collar and opened the door. Needless to say Greta has been gone for 15 years and the JWs have yet to darken my doors. Everyone is entitled to their own beliefs, but that does not give them the right to force their beliefs on others. If what they believe has validity and truth and merit, most people will discover it on their own. Rant over!

It's been just the opposite for me. The atheists have usually been very rude,excluding a few on here. I think it's just the person rather than their beliefs, rude abounds everywhere.

I've met more downright mean nasty Christians than I care to remember.

If'n ya don't walk their walk and talk their talk you are scum.

Reply to Bubbajay. Typing is not my forte. I never learned the proper skills. Mea culpa mea culpa. Porsche 73

2 little old ladies came walking up our drive few years back and knocked on the door.

"Hi, we're with the j dubyas and we're here to invite you folks to the Easter morning celebration of Jesus the Christ's death."


"Well, ladies, this household is Christian.
You go celebrate His death while we stay home and celebrate His resurrection."

They turned white as ghosts.
With eyes as big as saucers they whirled on their heels and scurried down the porch step, through the gate, and down the drive faster than either had moved in decades.

I aint seen them since

I will disagree with some here about their intentions. If you even listen to their message for a minute, they will be back again, and again, and again. I just don't appreciate what amounts to religious harassment. I tried to hear them out one time when I still lived with my folks and they pestered us all most weekly for months. Dad being the redneck that he was, answered the door with a Colt on his belt and a bull whip in his hand. They quickly got the message. That crazy German bastard was not to be messed with.

Quite possibly true but in my personal exp. I've met more downright mean nasty Christians than I care to remember.

If'n ya don't walk their walk and talk their talk you are scum.

Had some stop by yesterday....was nice to them, but told them I, and my family, are saved, and attend our own church weekly. Thanked them for their time and they responded likewise and went on their way.

Reckon the best way to deal with Jehovah's Witnesses is to be a witness of your own. Do you have the knowledge of The Word enough to show them the error of their teaching? Ultimately, we should do unto them as we would have them do unto us.

I agree. I look at it as an opportunity for dialog with people who actually care about the subject. Fine people, seeking like a lot of us.

I loved the Baptist Minister that came to my door with his 6 year old daughter.

Baptist: 'Do you know where you are going when you die?'

Me: 'Nope'

Baptist: 'If you accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, you would know where you are going when you die'

Baptist turns to his 6 year old daughter and asks: 'Honey, where will you go when you die'

Daughter: 'Heaven'

Baptist: 'Why'

Daughter: 'Because I believe in Jesus Christ'

Baptist Minister then looked at me with a rather smug look on his face. I then asked him if I could ask his daughter a question, he said yes.

Me: 'Do you believe in Santa Claus'

Daughter: 'YES!'

I then saw his smug look disappear and I said 'Have a nice day' as I closed the door.

I loved the Baptist Minister that came to my door with his 6 year old daughter.

Baptist: 'Do you know where you are going when you die?'

Me: 'Nope'

Baptist: 'If you accepted Jesus Christ as your lord and savior, you would know where you are going when you die'

Baptist turns to his 6 year old daughter and asks: 'Honey, where will you go when you die'

Daughter: 'Heaven'

Baptist: 'Why'

Daughter: 'Because I believe in Jesus Christ'

Baptist Minister then looked at me with a rather smug look on his face. I then asked him if I could ask his daughter a question, he said yes.

Me: 'Do you believe in Santa Claus'

Daughter: 'YES!'

I then saw his smug look disappear and I said 'Have a nice day' as I closed the door.

Jesus said, "As you are going, make disciples, teaching them to observe all I have commanded you."

Jesus said, "As you are going, make disciples, teaching them to observe all I have commanded you."

I answer the door naked w/ a coyote pelt draped over my head.


mike r

I'm not sure what scared them off, the Skeptics Annotated Bible in the Parlor, or the Ruger Vaquero on top of it.

Whatever happened to the hari krishnas at the airports?


I was thinking bout joining them but they seem as a rare as hens teeth these days?

members not only chant a 16-word mantra to Hare Krishna, sometimes lasting hours a day, they agree to abstain from meat, gambling, alcohol and illicit sex.

Apology accepted. You are a true gentleman and I am proud to make your acquaintance. Porsche73

Jesus said, "As you are going, make disciples, teaching them to observe all I have commanded you."

I tell anyone who comes to my home .... if they are UN-invited and UN-expected they are also UN-welcome.

It was the Ruger. Last time they showed up here 2 years ago I answered the door with the 1911 Mexican style and exposed, by the look on their faces you'd a thought my dick was hanging out.

They haven't been back since.

Larry, THREE different logins now? FOAD you decrepit old psycho!

I'm thinking declining membership due to:

^^^^^^^^^

This.



I have a " No Soliciting" sign on my doorbell, and another on the door saying specifically I don't want their products, politics, or religion and for years I even had a doormat that plainly said " GO AWAY"


Woe be to anyone knocking on the door that I didn't invite.



The last few religious zealots that ignored the signage never got a single word in our extremely brief conversations....

.460 Wby.



Now with a Leupold 1x-4x.

As a Christian I have to respect that the JWs do as Jesus commanded. I often wonder why it is other Christian religions do NOT follow the commandment of Jesus to go and make deciples
Shod

My wife and daughter are JW's. Nicest people you'll ever meet. If you're not interested in what they have to say, just let them know and they'll be on their way. They are human beings just like you. They are husbands and wives, and fathers and mothers, and sons and daughters of someone. No need to be disrespectful or downright cruel just because you disagree with their message. . .

Late one Saturday afternoon, I was snoozing on the sofa when the doorbell awakened me. Craning my neck, I noticed two well-dressed young women at the screen door.

“What can I do for you?” I called out, thinking they were Avon ladies and not wanting to be disturbed.

“We’re Witnesses of Jehovah, and we’d like to share some Scripture truths with you.”

I was up in a flash. My wife was about to put an early supper on the table. “Go ahead without me,” I told her. “I have work to do.” I stepped onto the porch and closed the door behind me.

Wanting to get the upper hand immediately, I said to the proselytizers, “I’m glad you’re here. I take considerable interest in your faith. I have a copy of the New World Translation of the Bible, the one your Brooklyn headquarters distributes. I subscribe to Awake! and Watchtower magazines. I have several of the books designed to instruct you in door-to-door work, including Reasoning from the Scriptures. I want you to know that I appreciate your zeal and am grateful that you have come to my door.

“Now, before we go any further, tell me a little about yourselves. I presume neither one of you was brought up as a Jehovah’s Witness.” My guess was right. One woman was a former Methodist, the other a former Catholic. Naturally enough, I intended to zero in on the latter.

“You say you want to share Scripture truths. That’s laudable. Why don’t we start with the Gospel of John?” I had them open to the sixth chapter, and we went through it slowly.

In the first part Jesus feeds the five thousand. He provides them, miraculously, with earthly food, a foretaste of what is to come. In the last half of the chapter, he promises to provide them, miraculously, with heavenly food—his own body and blood. “I am the living bread which came down from heaven; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever; and the bread which I shall give for the life of the world is my flesh” (John 6:51).

“Consider the reaction of his listeners,” I said to the Witnesses. “The Jews who were listening to our Lord asked themselves, ‘How can this man give us his flesh to eat?’ They took him literally, didn’t they?” The former Methodist made no sign, but the former Catholic nodded slightly.

“Look at what Jesus did not do. He did not correct them. He did not say, ‘You misunderstand. What I said was just a metaphor.’ There was no need for him to say that because they had understood him properly.” Jesus repeated himself: “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you have no life in you . . . for my flesh is food indeed, and my blood is drink indeed” (John 6:53–55).

Then, I noted, came objections not from the Jews who all along had opposed Jesus but from his own disciples, people who had accepted everything up to this point. “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” (John 6:60). Again, no attempt was made to “correct” Jesus’ listeners and to assure them that he spoke merely in symbols. He upbraided them: “There are some of you that do not believe” (John 6:64). “After this many of his disciples drew back and no longer went about with him” (John 6:66)—the only place in Scripture in which any of Jesus’ followers left him for a doctrinal reason.

I stepped close to the former Catholic and looked her square in the eyes. “And do you know who was among the unbelievers?” She shook her head slowly, her mouth slightly agape. In my snakiest voice I whispered, “It was Judas-s-s-s!”

Her eyes grew wide. Verse 64 refers to the betrayer and brackets him with those “that did not believe.” The disbelieving disciples at least had the courage of their convictions, I said. They ceased to profess with their presence what they no longer believed in their hearts. Judas, rejecting the teaching on the Real Presence, nevertheless stayed with Jesus. Later on he would steal from the common purse, becoming a thief, and later still he would hand the Master over to the executioners, but his first betrayal was in the form of disbelief.

“You need to get right with God,” I exhorted my visitors. “You need to study Scripture more diligently. You need to pray to Jehovah God and ask him to enlighten you about the real meaning of this chapter. And you in particular,” I said, turning on the former Catholic, “need to come back to the Church that Jesus established—the only Church that gives the authentic interpretation of these verses and of all verses in the Bible. Quite innocently, I’m sure, you have allowed yourself to abandon Jesus’ own Church. Don’t be like the disciples who rejected his hard sayings and turned away from him.”

They told me they would think about it.

Do you think, that's enough gun, for a rabbit?