Evangelism during Covid-19

[Tortuga]

https://gazette.com/news/what-evangelism-looks-like-during-covid-for-jehovahs-witnesses-mormons-evangelical-christians/article_0cdf6dbc-457b-11eb-a563-bbc69cc7f47c.html

 

Brother Hendriks makes some interesting comments about how quickly someone can get baptized.

Edited December 28, 2020 by Tortuga

[Mykyl]

That was really interesting. Speeding up baptisms. 

[New World Explorer]

Good point here:

To be considered an active member, Jehovah’s Witnesses must participate in the door-to-door ministry, now the phone calling and letter writing campaign, Hendriks said.

[Qapla]

This is what I git when I tried the link

 

Obviously, I could not read the article   

 

[rocket]

44 minutes ago, Qapla said:

This is what I git when I tried the link

 

Obviously, I could not read the article   

 

 

Disable your AdBlocker for that site and the words are no longer blurred !

[EccentricM]

1 hour ago, Qapla said:

This is what I git when I tried the link

 

 

 

I've never seen that command in the Bible before 😄

[Tortuga]

Hopefully everyone can work out their technical issues privately and we can discuss this article. 

 

Brother Hendriks comment about baptisms is pretty interesting.

 

Becoming a Jehovah’s Witness typically takes years, but now, aspiring congregants have been able to move through the instruction process online and with remote contact and join the denomination in eight or nine months, Hendriks said.

Edited December 29, 2020 by Tortuga

[Qapla]

It does bring to mind the "6 moth Bible Course" we used to have when the blue "Truth Book" was released. Ones were being baptized after 6 moths or, in many cases, the study was dropped.

 

[Jack1979]

“The recruitment methodology”... interesting way to put our preaching efforts ☺️

[Jack1979]

Quote from article:

 

***Becoming a Jehovah’s Witness typically takes years, but now, aspiring congregants have been able to move through the instruction process online and with remote contact and join the denomination in eight or nine months, Hendriks said.***

 

This was the writers paraphrase. It would be interesting to read the direct quote. 
 

I definitely agree that the “baptism” process has been expedited with our current situation. Mostly because people “have more time to dive into” their studies. But, that has always been true has it not? You get out of it what you give... a lot of people have more time to give now.

 

Not only was this not encapsulate in quotes in the article, but brother Hendriks would’ve never used the term “denomination” in referring to us. 
 

Nice find on the article by the way😉

Edited December 29, 2020 by Jack1979

[Lee49]

Yep, it was the ad blocker!

[Hope]

I saved the article to my Evernote, for whomever is keen 😊

 

https://www.evernote.com/shard/s200/nl/23580790/a38c7082-f1f8-402b-b8d1-afd20ac7e893/