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When did Jehovah Witnesses begin going from door to door to preach?
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Modern day Jehovah's Witnesses started to form into congregations in the 1870's. By 1881 they recognized the need to preach from house-to-house and visit every household personally. They preached in business territory also. There are documented reports from that time forward.
At first we had no real training program; but that developed in time, as we encouraged everyone we contacted to join us in the door-stop ministry. Some did not wish to do it, so they left.
But now we have 2 weekly meetings, devoted directly to training for this kind of ministry. The training is free. Now we have approx 8 million door-step ministers; and 19 million attending our annual Memorial meeting.
REBUTTAL: Jehovah's Witnesses did not even exist in the 1870's, the name not being adopted until the early 1930's under the Watchtower's 2nd President, "Judge" Rutherford. Up until then, the group that represented the "Watchtower" Org were known as the International Bible Students and this corporation was started by "Pastor" Russell, the WT's 1st President in the 1870's.
NOTE: neither men possessed the legal and rightful claim to the titles they self-bestowed upon themselves.
It was under Rutherford that the now newly-named "Jehovah's Witnesses" organization began going door to door, not preaching per se, but only using a phonograph playing Rutherford's speeches that condemned what they referred to as "Christendom", or all other religions claiming to be Christian. The Catholic Church was especially vilified in these bombastic and condemnatory recordings. The inflammatory and judgmental recordings resulted in many JW's being "tar & feathered" in many localities throughout the USA to which JW's howled of being "persecuted". Really?
Today's door-to-door work requires approx 7500 hours, on average, to create one single convert in the USA. Can you picture Jesus or any of His disciples requiring all this time for one single convert? I think not as the WT's message is flawed, focused on their Org and not on Jesus Christ, the only true Gospel (good news).
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