tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post419184592698772636..comments2024-01-18T02:47:12.669-08:00Comments on Tregear Vean: Evangelical visitingRevjeanrolthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12744131101249601856noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-19472483293684144102011-04-03T06:25:33.230-07:002011-04-03T06:25:33.230-07:00It's strange that I am uncomfortable with this...It's strange that I am uncomfortable with this type of Evangelical visit to my home, particularly if they are insistent after I explain that I do not need to find God as he has already found me. Just perhaps not with their particular brand.<br /><br />We have a Jehavah's Witness Temple or Citadel quite near us and they are quite Evangelical, but seem to use their trainee's in our streets, who think that a polite no is not sufficient to allow them to go to the next house. But on the whole, they seem to be pleasant enough when they realise that their efforts will be wasted at this address.<br /><br />A couple of weeks ago, someone from a New 'Free Church' rang our bell and took the aggressive approach of thrusting a leaflet into my hand and asking me if I would like to know God. She was most insistent and although I was my usual polite, thanks-but-no thanks self, she felt that I really needed to come and see for myself. In the end it was simpler to take the leaflet and invitation and wish them well in their ministry and close the door.<br /><br />I later read in our local press, that they had been refused retrospective planning permission for their church, which had taken over a disused small business in a residential cul-de-sac due to the noise, disruption and parking obstructions they had caused since they opened. They have now moved elsewhere, hopefully to a better site for their church.<br /><br />That is perhaps Evangelism done badly.UKViewerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18114944341930758335noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-20013200867295732642011-04-03T04:51:17.055-07:002011-04-03T04:51:17.055-07:00Like you Jean I prefer to see my religion lived ra...Like you Jean I prefer to see my religion lived rather than 'loud-hailered' and buy nothing at all at the doorstep. <br />My late father a communist had an infallible method of sending Jehovah's Witnesses running as if from the devil himself.<br />He would agree to accept their newspaper as long as they would accept his copy of "The Morning Star", in those days still The Daily Worker.<br />It worked every time.Ray Barneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09209429097744326143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8137857716187567509.post-77177732998827022552011-04-03T02:47:42.756-07:002011-04-03T02:47:42.756-07:00Let me know (@Gurdur) if you like the offending ch...Let me know (@Gurdur) if you like the offending church involved in the two men/"Time of the month dearie?" incident, and I will be quite happy as an atheist to blog on them, and I am sure the public feedback will eventually get back to whoever is running that setup.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com