Why do certain religions need to go door to door to peddle their religion?

Question

I think it's a very invasive practice. I keep having a small group of women show up at my door night after night. I've been very polite in telling them that I am not interested. I even had to call their church today and ask that someone tell them to stop coming. Why doesn't no mean no to them. If they are confident in their beliefs then why do they have to push so hard. These ladies came from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

Answer 1

They believe they're following something called "The Great Commission", in which Christ tells his followers to spread the Gospel into every nation. However, I also feel that the door-to-door method is not only invasive, but lowers the Gospel to something on the level of selling encyclopedias or vacuum cleaners, and more often than not, turns people against ever accepting the message. My church has never asked me to go door-to-door, and never will. But anyway, that's why these other groups do it.

Answer 2

I am a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and we do not believe you have to "convert" people to go to heaven. Missionaries volunteer to go using their own time and their own money. Like any religion or group of people there are people who have poor ettiquette. I agree that contacting the church was the correct thing to do. I was a missionary and when someone told us no, I knew they meant it and I went on my way. If the same two missionaries keep coming by after you have asked them not to, they are breaking rules the church has given missionaries. As a member I apologize for them.

Answer 3

Jehovah's Witnesses go door to door to find sheep like ones who are interested in relief from this wicked system of things. They do so in immitation of Jesus Christ and because of the command he gave us to preach and teach about God's Kingdom government. HOWEVER, if you tell us that you are not interested, we will not push it in any way although it may actually break our hearts to leave.

Answer 4

Christians are called to go out unto the world and preach the good news of Jesus Christ dying for your sins. However, you see Jahovah's witnesses or mormons do more door to door than anyone else. They try to catch people off guard and get you to believe in their false religion. While true Christians will more than likely sit back and create friendships with co-workers or people that they normally come in contact with everyday and if they feel driven to witness then they will witness.

Answer 5

Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses believe that in order to be rewarded with the gift of Eternal Life, you need to do a certain amount of door to door ministry work. Unfortunately for them, they are wrong.

The Bible says that you will inheret the Kingdom of Heaven by your FAITH, not works.

Just keep doing what you are doing. Say "no, thank you" and let them leave. You did the right thing by contacting the LDS church since they did not respect your wishes.

Answer 6

I do not think their intentions are wrong, I just don't believe in what they teaches but Jesus Christ has commissioned us to go into all the world and preach the gospel, that is to take His redemption message to all who will listen. there should be more of us going out into our communities and try to win souls for Gods kingdom.

Answer 7

easily, i have by no ability lengthy gone door to door. the in common words church homes in my section that attempt this are LDS and JW. We did once take blood stress screenings outdoors a marketplace and hand out medical literature which incorporates the caution indications of heart attack and stroke and the thanks to inform when you're diabetic. Does that count number? **I might want to make it clean that no individual's blood stress became checked adverse to his/her will.

Answer 8

Jehovah's Witnesses follow what the Scriptures teach: "for we are not peddlers of the word of God as many men are, but as out of sincerity, yes, as sent from God, under God’s view, in company with Christ, we are speaking." (2 Cor. 2:17) Nor are they who commercialize (make gain.)

The message that the Witnesses proclaim involves the lives of people; they want to be careful to miss no one. (Zephaniah 2:2, 3.) Their calls are motivated by love—first for God, also for their neighbor.

They do not force their message on others. But they know that people move to new residences and that the circumstances of people change. Today a person may be too busy to listen; another time he may gladly take the time. One member of a household may not be interested, but others may be. People themselves change; serious problems in life may stimulate an awareness of spiritual need.—See also Isaiah 6:8, 11, 12.

A conference of religious leaders in Spain noted this: “Perhaps (the churches) are excessively neglectful about that which precisely constitutes the greatest preoccupation of the Witnesses—the home visit, which comes within the apostolic methodology of the primitive church. While the churches, on not a few occasions, limit themselves to constructing their temples, ringing their bells to attract the people and to preaching inside their places of worship, [the Witnesses] follow the apostolic tactic of going from house to house and of taking advantage of every occasion to witness.”—El Catolicismo, Bogotá, Colombia, September 14, 1975, p. 14.

If "Proud Believer" cannot provide or quote a Scripture to prove that faith alone is acceptable for salvation, then he/she is mistaken. Rather, God's Word states: "Thus, too, faith, if it does not have works, is dead in itself. 18 Nevertheless, a certain one will say: “You have faith, and I have works. Show me your faith apart from the works, and I shall show you my faith BY my works.” "Of what benefit is it, my brothers, if a certain one says he has faith but he does not have works? That faith cannot save him, can it?" (James 1:22, 23. 2:17, 18.) Also, “Not everyone saying to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter into the kingdom of the heavens, but the one doing the will of my Father who is in the heavens will. 22 Many will say to me in that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and expel demons in your name, and perform many powerful works in your name?’ 23 And yet then I will confess to them: I never knew you! Get away from me, you workers of lawlessness." (Matthew 7:21-23.)

The apostle Paul said that “faith follows the thing heard.” (Romans 10:17) This natural progression from hearing the Word of God to exercising faith in his Son, Jesus Christ, puts us in line for everlasting life.

Jesus told his faithful disciples: “Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.”—Matthew 28:19, 20. Jehovah's Witnesses follow this command and preach in more than 230 nations world-wide.

If you would like further information, please contact Jehovah's Witnesses at the local Kingdom Hall. Or visit their official web site - http://www.watchtower.org

Answer 9

Missionaries volunteer to go using their own time and their own money.

Volunteer?? thats a laugh - they are REQUIRED to take 2 years out of their lives to do missionary work. Thats not volunteering.

Answer 10

Because religion is a pyramid scam to make money for the church.

Without that down line there are no profits.