garrrr! after trying at least 25 times to log into my google account so i could view a private blog, i was ready to blow up my computer. then i had a brain wave - maybe my google account is not the same as my blogger account - and i was right. garrr! how could i not see that the 1500 million times i looked at it? garrr! so now, when reading blogs, i have yet another stinkin' username and password to remember. why couldn't they combine the two accounts? i mean, they are both google thingys, geez.
God is in control. God is in control. God is in control.
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oh, and another garrrr! help, i'm surrounded by a cloud of witnesses! jehovah's witnesses, that is. i'm such a sucker. two ladies where on my doorstep this morning - i thought they were my uncle (how could confuse the two? lol)... and i said yeah sure, i'll take a magazine. i like to read the watchtower because i either laugh at how stupid it is, or cry at how deceptive the whole thing is. well, as she handed me the magazine, she said she may come back to talk with me and see if i had a chance to read it and talk about it with me.... aack! i'm on their hitlist! thinking back, i might already have been on their hitlist after the last magazine, which might be why this is the first time i've had women on my doorstep instead of men! aack!
saddest thing is, she said it was all about 'why bother doing what's right?' or some such, and she read a passage from their bible about how only the righteous will dwell in the land, and the unrighteous will be cut off.... wow, to think about how to live up to that in our own righteousness is overwhelming, we could never live up to God's standards of righteousness. and they live under that burden! wwwaaaaaahhhh... makes me almost cry to think about living under that kind of heavy. if only they could see that it's not our own righteousness that makes us righteous, but Jesus' righteousness. based on His subsituting-for-me death on the cross, Him taking our place in condemnation, so that we can dwell as tho we're righteous, because we're clothed in Jesus' righteousness. thank You, Jesus!
soo... i still might have another visitation on my doorstep. maybe it's a God thing that i didn't right off the bat say, "but it's not our own righteousness that enables us to dwell in the land, but Christ's righteousness imputed to us".... maybe God wants me to have a discussion with a lady-witness or two about this. ack! or maybe nothing will ever come of it.
if she/they should call again, what is the best approach to take? *sigh* ...i have a pretty good grasp on theology, and can see when what they say is wrong theology, but i don't have a good grasp on how to discuss it with someone of a wrong theology, y'know?
God is in control. God is in control. God is in control.
Next time this woman shows up (and she will--with in a week or two....like clockwork) tell her you want to be placed on her congregation's "do not call" list--and make certain you use those exact words, or else she'll keep coming.
ReplyDeleteAnd, just to make her nuts, tell her "God bless you! I'll say a prayer for you!" as you close your door, politely, in her face.
This is the advise I give to all people who don't have the time, experience or inclination to deal with them....
In His Grace,
Miki Tracy
cult exit counselor
Years ago we had a couple of Jehovah Witnesses come to our door when we lived in the East Kootenays. My husband answered the door and managed to dumbfound them with his responses. He had a counter attact to every statement they made. The next day Mr. Head Honcha Jehovah witness knocked on our door and ended up leaving in discouragement 35 minutes later after my husband stood his own.
ReplyDeleteGenerally when they come to the door I am usually greeted with the standard, "Life is in doom" approach and I say, "actually I love my life...Not interested."
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