What do you do when a "Jehovah Witness" Comes knocking on your door?

Question

I am a X-Jehovah Witness..Wondering what the world thought of me knocking on your door?

Answer 1

People think it's really annoying. I'd like to think I'd be polite and respectful. I might even have a nice chat about the differences in my religion and theirs. However, I'm really not sure. I've never had them come.

Answer 2

I am associated with Jehovah's Witnesses, and I have changed my way of thinking about ANYONE knocking at my door with a religious message. I listen.
I recently had two young Mormon men come by the house while on their mission. We ended up talking for nearly two hours, and they began to come around two or three times a week just to visit and talk about the Bible. They never made Mormons out of me, and I never turned them into Witnesses, but we sure had some fine, involved, heart-felt talks about the Bible. Those boys knew their Bible, and we all enjoyed every minute of our time together.
My point is this: I learned a big lesson in that situation. How on earth could I possibly expect anyone to listen to me at their door if I was not willing to do the same when someone came to mine? I am certain that anyone who really wants to share intelligent, thoughtful ideas about the world and life and God never minds anyone who also wants to share (NOT shove) ideas
about the same knocking on their door!

Answer 3

I talk to them. Just because I don't believe the same way that they do doesn't mean that they have nothing to teach me. I enjoy talking to people who believe differently than I do. It gives me a different point of view. Also, I could be wrong about what I believe. If you were a Jehovahs Witness, then you already know that not all of what they believe is wrong. All religions have good points and bad points, including mine.

Answer 4

I greet them with a pleasant "hello" and then I tell them I knew they were coming.

Matthew 7:15-23 fits the Jehovah's Witness organization to a "T."
Individually they are very nice, very sincere people. I am always left wondering why they do not research the background and origins of their faith.

Answer 5

Some people try to avoid them and are mean to them. I've seen people run in their houses, lock their doors, and not answer when the people knocked. But I usually invite them in and talk with them. I never trun down a chance to talk about Jesus!

Answer 6

As long as you don't knock on my door too early or too late and respect it when I say "Thank you, but I'm really not interested," I have no problem with what you do. I truly believe in freedom of religion and expression.

Answer 7

I invite them in and think they cared enough about me to come to my door to save my life, the respectful thing to do is to listen.
I've read the magazines there pretty good to. Short articles on just about everything from polar bears to butterflys. I like the new one on the solar system. It is real good. Was reading it today.
Was interesting.

Answer 8

So-called "questions" like this imply that Jehovah's Witnesses are interested in becoming popular, but that is simply not true. The ONLY opinions of ongoing interest to a true Witness are those of Jehovah and Christ Jesus. Those who work to ingratiate themselves with some human or human group are not doing God's will.

(1 Thessalonians 2:4) We speak, as pleasing, not men, but God, who makes proof of our hearts.

(Matthew 6:20,21) Store up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.


Jehovah's Witnesses have the true religion. They are Christian (of course), but they are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with more than 6.5 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (about 16 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.


Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 9

A huge annoyance. I usually say no thanks and close the door, but once or twice I'f lost my temper because of particularly annoying or pushy individuals.

It is very irritating to have someone come to your door on your day off and try to tell you why their set of superstitions is better than everyone else's. It comes off as arrogant and preachy, and I personally find preaching to be a major irritant.

Answer 10

You remember how loving the society was. Why even post this blasphemous question? Please consider returning. It has to be in your Heart & remember Jehovah is a God of Love & is ready to forgive.