Because a lot of people seem to be saying that just to boost their own sense of self-importance, or they're just really paranoid.
Why don't you just aviod people who try to "force" you?
2007-03-12 05:13:22 · 9 answers · asked by Tanya Pants 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
vinslave .. Jesus preached wherever he went, he wasn't going door to door like the Witnesses will have you believe
2007-03-12 05:39:06 · update #1
I've (fortunately) never had to fend off someone who tried to "force" me into conversion.
2007-03-12 05:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by Maverick 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Avoidance is my preferred method of dealing with them. The result is that I rarely have anyone trying to force me to convert. Usually it comes in the form of some random stranger banging on my door, often at an inopportune moment, and me chasing them off.
2007-03-12 12:23:44 · answer #2 · answered by Murazor 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
he wasn't going door to door like the Witnesses will have you believe?
Mark 6:7-13 "And He summoned the twelve and began to send them out in pairs.....And they went out and preached that men should repent."
Jesus gave directions on the preaching work.
2007-03-12 12:49:41 · answer #3 · answered by keiichi 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It happened to my husband just the other day while he was working. He was approached out of the blue by two DHL (??) employees.
Since he didn't know they were about to, as he put it, "jack him up," he couldn't avoid it.
Now that he knows, he may avoid DHL employees everywhere on the offchance that there's a jesus epidemic running rampant.
But seriously....how do you propose we avoid these people? Stay in our homes? Stay off the streets? We already avoid churches; what more do you expect us to do?
2007-03-12 12:46:46 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I actively inquire about other peoples' religion. I speak with missionaries from other churches going door to door. I have never encountered ANYONE who tried to force me to convert. (Though some of the atheists here at Y!A come pretty close with their sneer-tactics.)
2007-03-12 12:18:36 · answer #5 · answered by Open Heart Searchery 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You can't avoid the lobbyists I'm afraid... they tend to sway thinking with cash in order to use the law to foist their views on everybody. No matter that the USA isn't a theocracy...
_()_
2007-03-12 12:20:41 · answer #6 · answered by vinslave 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No one has ever come to me and tried force convert me. I've had family try to force paganistic views on things. But no real attemp to convert.
I have gone to someone elses door to preach the good news, and in turn, they tried to give me information. I told them that if they came to my house with the information - like Jesus did with the good news (Matt. 28:19,20; )- I would check it out.
But guess what....they never did!
2007-03-12 12:19:14 · answer #7 · answered by ♥LadyC♥ 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
I only go as far as to tell people who ask that I am a Christian. I have never thrown the bible at anyone and never would.
2007-03-12 12:18:03 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's a bit difficult when they bring it to your door.
2007-03-12 12:25:26 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋