Fun With Jehovah's Witnesses

[Balthazor]

So I LOVE Jehovah's Witnesses. They make my job evangelizing much easier... if only the Athiests were as proselytic.

What do you say to them when they come to your house?

Here are my favorites:

1. Jehovah's Witness: Hello I would like to talk with you about the Lord.
Me: What would you like to know?

2. Soooo.... have you reached that 144,000 goal yet? You should be getting close.

3. Come in, I would like to have you for dinner. By the way do you know that us Catholics drink blood every Sunday?

[Archaeology cat]

Those are awesome responses!

My grandmother always invited them & the Mormon missionaries in for cookies because she wanted someone to talk to, but always made it clear she wouldn't convert.

[Selah]

[quote]Come in, I would like to have you for dinner. By the way do you know that us Catholics drink blood every Sunday?[/quote]

[Justin86]

Careful with number three. You never know who might take it seriously. The first one was my favorite.

[Balthazor]

I also find that when they give me a copy of "the watchtower" it is fun to say "AWESOME I LOVE JIMMI HENDRIX!" and then start singing "All around the Watchtower...."


Usually they get really confused. Apparently Acid rock is not popular in the Jehovah's witness crowd.

[Archaeology cat]

[quote name='Balthazor' post='1611441' date='Jul 29 2008, 04:07 PM']I also find that when they give me a copy of "the watchtower" it is fun to say "AWESOME I LOVE JIMMI HENDRIX!" and then start singing "All around the Watchtower...."
Usually they get really confused. Apparently Acid rock is not popular in the Jehovah's witness crowd.[/quote]
Now I'm going to be singing that the rest of the day.

[Guest Mariamne]

I used to invite the Jehovah's Witnesses and the Mormons to come over for tea and cookies...both groups at the same time! Those were fun days...

[pan!c139]

HAHAHA I love the first one!!!!! It's kinda funny, our friends, whenever they see the JW's or Mormon's they run to the kitchen and hide.
"MORMONS!!!! QUICK EVERYONE!!!!

[Roamin Catholic]

This is MissScripture.

My dad once argued with a baptist minister who was going door-to-door, and he got so mad he walked out. I would love to hear that argument now, when my dad has had far more training in the faith. Probably would've taken half the time.

I once had some Jehovah's Witness come to the door when I was babysitting. I must've given them some interesting looks, and I really wanted to just slam the door and get the kids back to the table (it took forever to get them to eat, and they had JUST settled down), but I didn't want to be really rude, because the lady had 2 boys with her, one of whom looked miserable enough. I felt bad for the poor kid.

[CatherineM]

I did that 144,000 thing on some once. I told them that they were probably over the limit already, and if they recruited me, I might take one of their places.

[TeresaBenedicta]

Last summer my best friend, a seminarian friend, and myself went to the Jehovah's Witnesses booth at the Fair. We had a nice discussion, actually. By the end, however, they did ask us to leave, when they could not counter our Scripture verses that Jesus was God.

Ahh, those were the good 'ole days. We were quite the three-person team. We'd hit up all the religious booths, from the evangelicals to the fundamentalists to the Jehovah's Witnesses.

Hmm. I think the fair's coming up again next week. We might have to make another trip out there.

[Treehugger]

When the Jehovah witnesses come to our door we hand them a copy of the Diocesan newspaper...or a church bulletin. We figure it's only fair to trade.

My best friend throughout grades 7 and 8 is a Jehovah's witness. Towards the end of grade 8, he wrote me a letter basically saying that we couldn't be friends any longer because I had not yet converted as he had hoped and thought I might. That was sad. Especially being just fourteen.

We had many discussions about faith and it actually was good training in apologetics.

Once he asked me to attend his service at Kingdom Hall. I said I would consider if he would also consider attending a Catholic mass one Sunday. He got completely offended and said that there was NO WAY he would step into a different place of worship and hear "wrong teaching."

I have done door-to-door Catholic missionary work...interesting experience. (Through the Regnum Christi movement during Holy Week) People are often surprised, "There are Catholic missionaries going around now too!"
There were times the Mormons were going down a street we had just finished...(probably vice versa too)...haha

[Selah]

Once when I was younger, my dad recalled a time when two Jehovah's Witnesses came to the door. They offered him some pamphlets, to which he responded, "Sure! Hey guys, do you think I could give you some pamphlets also?"

They immediatly said no, it was false teaching, and they wouldn't dare. My father looked confused and said, "Why? What are you afraid of? I know what I believe, so your pamphlets can't sway me...so why are you afraid to take something of mine?"

Needless to say, they didn't stay too long

Now my grandma is a different story. She'd invite them inside for tea, have my mom play the organ and talk with them a while. haha. I think I prefer that method

[StColette]

My dad just invites them in the house and starts talking to them about Our Lady. They get scared and run for the door. He tells them to be sure and bring their friends next time.

[Galloglasses]

In Ireland, we have Jehova's Witnesses but we a re sorely lacking in Mormons.

Neither have come around my area though =[