Jehovah's Witnesses - why do they think they can just knock on your door and you will convert?

Question

People fear to open their doors if two people wearing black happened to be standing there. Do people actually listen to them and say "your right, what have i been thinking all this time?!, im converted!!"
Just p*sses me off that people basically tell you to believe what they believe! They only believe what they do because someone told them to.
People should believe what they do for personal reasons. We all seem to go round in life just following others opinions.
I make my own, I dont judge, as long as people are truely happy I wont blink an eye.

LIVE AND LET LIVE!

Answer 1

The Witnesses do not so much care whether you accept their admonition and join them -- and, as they see it, get saved -- as that they perform their duty to witness to you and assure their own salvation.

If they knock on your door and you turn them away, they have done their job and the fact that you are damned in the next life is not their fault.

The links below may be of interest.

Answer 2

What people like the asker fail to recognize is that the message that Jehovah's Witnesses bring to people when they do their door-to-door work is the very message that Jesus Christ COMMANDED his followers to preach. It's a non-optional commandment and obligation that true followers of Jesus are bound to obey. Read Matthew 24:14 and Matthew 28:19, 20 in ANY Bible and you'll see this.

NOBODY is telling you what you HAVE to believe. They're simply sharing with you the wonderful hope from the Bible, the truth, that most likely you're not hearing accurately from your preacher or priest. And, as a matter of fact, with over 250,000 individuals each year making their own dedication to Jehovah God to be one of his people, the answer is a resounding "YES" to your question that people do listen and come to wonder what they'd been thinking or how they could have thought it all their lives.

What you want to believe is your choice, yet is utterly irrelevant. God tells us what we are to believe in His word the Bible. And Jehovah's Witnesses are showing you from the Bible that such things you may have been taught all your life such as lies like: the trinity, hellfire, immortality of the soul, and so forth......are unscriptural.

The fact of the matter is, in every instance in the Bible that God brought destruction on people, He did so after having had a warning message delivered. Part of what Jehovah's Witnesses teach is the warning message that very soon God will bring destruction upon this system of things controlled by Satan, including all world-wide false religion. So you can say "live and let live"......but if you're not living up to God's requirements when the time comes, you won't be living much longer.

Answer 3

A common misconception is that Jehovah's Witnesses go from door-to-door because they feel it is their duty to get a householder to "convert". They do not tell their neighbors what to believe, but they do share encouraging thoughts from the Scriptures. Interestingly, Jehovah's Witnesses would go from door-to-door even if there were no hope that anyone would change their religion, or even if no one would listen to them!

That is because Jesus Christ specifically assigned the house-to-house ministry to the Christian congregation, with no regard for specific results.

(Luke 10:1,2) After these things the Lord designated seventy others and sent them forth by twos in advance of him into every city and place to which he himself was going to come. 2 Then he began to say to them: “The harvest, indeed, is great, but the workers are few. Therefore beg the Master of the harvest to send out workers into his harvest.

Jehovah's Witnesses are trained to direct attention to the bible, and move on when their message is unwanted. Since each congregation in the United States tries to call at every home in its territory at least twice each year, there is strong motivation for them to move on where little interest is shown. Also, the Scriptures help the Witnesses to expect little interest from most:

(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching ...and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.

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http://watchtower.org/library/jt/index.htm

Answer 4

I can't believe I would want to respond to this question because it is nothing more than a religious cult that has no respect to those they come in contact with that do not share their views,It is quite apparent that religious insanity is spreading way to fast, and that is why we are living in a world gone mad. I believe the greatest threat to any country is "Religion" a very dangerous phenomenon that eventually will have to be dealt with, I also believe the future will have no place for it and individual spirituality will push it aside, and that's when God will say to them now you can have lasting "Peace" amen.

Answer 5

You said you don't judge but you just said, they only believe what they do because someone told them to.

Obedience shouldn't be mocked. Let them choose what they want. From my experience I have found they only feel like they are doing something to help you. It is an unselfish desire.

Just say no if you are not interested and move on. Don't be so easily offended.

I would say unless you have spoken with them personally to find out what they believe and how they came to the conclusion, we don't necessarily understand why they believe what they do and cannot presume we do.

Answer 6

Well they are trying to do what they think the Bible tells you to do when you are going out to witness to the world about Chirst.
But they miss the boat the dock the whole shooting match they are just like the Mormen they tell you about their Church or book that will help you understant the Bible.
Personally I don't let them in either.
All you need is Love and the Lord Jesus and they will get you through any day Oh yeah Faith don't hurt either.

Answer 7

Sounds to me like your rant doesn't just apply to JWs, but Christians in general.

Why do they think they can disagree about their own beliefs, condemn non-Christians to an eternity of suffering, continue to tell everyone who doesn't believe/think/act like they do that they are wrong, scoff of anyone or anything that is not in the Bible, and yet expect people to convert?

See - these are the very things that caused me to leave the Christian faith in the first place, and they are the very things that keep me from being a Christian now.

Answer 8

All of us tend to think that if we could just sit others down and explain our views to them and why we believe as we do we have a good chance to convince them to see things as we do.

Now i'm agnostic and it doesn't bother me that people don't believe what I believe. I also recognize that my views might be wrong.

But if you get these people who believe they know the absolute truth and that those who don't believe it are in peril then you can sort of understand why they do what they do. After all, if they bother 100 people and only 1 percent get converted that can be a lot of souls saved. And, to them, interrupting your life is ok because they are trying to save you. That, they figure, is more important than your dinner or your TV show.

I don't agree with them, of course, but it sort of makes sense if you imagine it from their perspective. Of course these visits so offend a lot of people that the JW's become the butt of jokes. But they would see that as proof that they are right and that they are threatening evil so evil mocks them. Once again, I disagree with them. They make a mockery of themselves.

Answer 9

The technique must have some success, otherwise the Jehovah's Witnesses would have discontinued it.

Sort of like how teenage boys on Yahoo Answers keep asking virgin sounding stupid questions about penis size et al. People actually respond, so the questions keep getting asked.

Answer 10

Actually I don't think they believe you will convert right there and then. They want to plant that seed and then they leave you with pamphlets so you will read them and think things over. They think you will then realize the error of your ways and become a JW. However, you file those pamphlets in file 13 and never think of them again.

Answer 11

They think the intimidation factor works, which it probably does to an extent. People are a lot less confrontational face to face. If they tried converting people over the phone it would never work. They are just looking for weak minded people to sink their claws in.