tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post1909525887918007604..comments2024-03-28T17:31:43.711+00:00Comments on A K Haart: Bible visitA K Haarthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-48426241750089647722013-12-13T20:27:13.406+00:002013-12-13T20:27:13.406+00:00Sam - but surely they could pad it out?
Sackers -...Sam - but surely they could pad it out?<br /><br />Sackers - but what a clue it would have been now.<br /><br />Mac and Demetrius - we all have JW stories don't we? Maybe it says something about us as much as them.A K Haarthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05897490979828603179noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-18755063363160686222013-12-13T17:04:16.982+00:002013-12-13T17:04:16.982+00:00In a similar vein to Demetrius' comment, my mo...In a similar vein to Demetrius' comment, my mother frequently came home from school to her parents' remote cottage to find a couple of JWs perched uncomfortably on the sofa muttering 'We really ought to go...' while my fervent Christian Scientist grandfather happily elaborated on the finer points of the New Testament - a subject on which he had been known to talk for several hours at a stretch.<br /><br />Oddly enough, though it was always clear they were getting nowhere, new ones kept on turning up; either the organisers were determined to convert him or they were using him as the ultimate training exercise for new recruits.<br />Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-67633127441462177112013-12-13T15:35:51.704+00:002013-12-13T15:35:51.704+00:00The last time some JW's turned up I got on the...The last time some JW's turned up I got on the Archbishop Ussher and the genealogy of his family and my reading of his original texts at the British Library. We haven't seen any JW's since. Demetriushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17198549581667363991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-62371079507499180382013-12-13T07:56:59.450+00:002013-12-13T07:56:59.450+00:00I suppose the CofE hasn't needed to do it on h...I suppose the CofE hasn't needed to do it on home turf historically because of its privileged position as the established religion (though I dare say there was a fair bit of knocking on doors going on in the Dark Ages); its visitation efforts have been far more welfare-oriented instead - or directed overseas.<br /><br />The question of visiting must have come up in the face of declining attendance, but the strategy chosen was 'alpha', inviting people to come along of their own accord to have their questions answered and thus preaching to, if not the converted, at least a willing audience.<br />Macheathhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451439759398780345noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-40165576813106246802013-12-13T07:00:40.280+00:002013-12-13T07:00:40.280+00:00I don't think Jesus would have been much conce...I don't think Jesus would have been much concerned to argue either for or against the antiquity of dinosaur bones, had anyone known about them then.Sackersonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17284329249862764601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2481298417819219839.post-5408654484307207022013-12-12T23:00:38.597+00:002013-12-12T23:00:38.597+00:00" I wondered briefly why the CoE doesn't ..." I wondered briefly why the CoE doesn't do this kind of thing"<br /><br />Probably because they don't actually believe in much.Sam Vegahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05978971199859845931noreply@blogger.com