There are so many people wanting to study the bible here you literally can not fit them all in your week. So this is what you do. You have to grade a persons interest. If they show interest but not "enough" then you dont go back! Can you believe that??? How strange, it feels so wrong! It is quite true though that there is a very big difference between those with real interest and those with extreme interest. If they mark their book and are always there for the study and look like they will start coming to the meetings, then you keep going, if not, you stop and start with someone that will! Man that is hard to get used to.
In the congregation at the moment there are 219 studies being conducted by 42 active publishers, that’s an average of about 5 studies per person!
Regardless of the amount of studies, we still had a part on the meeting the other night about the need to support the day we simply offer bible studies. Can you imagine what happens when the congo goes out and just offers studies? Well NZ you would get very little response, but here 90% of the people you ask want to study.
Its best to demonstrate a study right then and there as we still have problems getting people home again, but again, if they are really interested they will make sure they are there when you make an appointment.
So one of the main challenges we have here is being able to study with all the people who want to. Imagine having that problem! That though can be quite worrying, as we are concerned about the lives of these people and it just isn’t possible to teach the truth to them all. That’s where you trust in Jehovah’s ability to read peoples hearts. If they are so inclined he will draw them to the truth regardless. That I think is the biggest stress here!
My how different things are!
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