Baptists go door-to-door 'planting seeds'

[The Straight Story]

The reason I am putting this in politics is this thought I had on it all:

This quote from the article: "Do you mind if I share with you what the Bible tells us about that?" Larry Atkins asked.

Maybe we need to get the constitution and other such documents into a simple booklet format, go door to door, and plant seeds with people.

"What do you think about the war in Iraq, do you mind if I show you what our constitution (et al, might want a nice title for all the docs together in one booklet) says about that?"

I dunno, just a thought.


Baptists go door-to-door 'planting seeds'

By NATALIA MIELCZAREK
Staff Writer

PLEASANT VIEW — With Bibles and church fliers in their hands, David Simmerman, Larry Atkins, Micah Atkins and Jodie Upchurch hit a 100-home subdivision here yesterday to tell people about Jesus.

Before they ventured out into the neighborhood in this Cheatham County town, though, they said it didn't matter how many people listened to their message.


"It's not so much a business quota of getting 30 people saved," said Simmerman, associate pastor at First Baptist Church Joelton, which commissioned about 60 volunteers to Crossover, the door-to-door outreach effort on the weekend before the Southern Baptist Convention that is designed to evangelize people in the host city area.

"The fact that we go out is a success because we're doing what the Scriptures tell us. What we're going to be doing today is planting seeds."

[Mythsaje]

1. Knock on my door

and they find themselves confronted by a 20 lb Pomeranian Devil.

We don't get many church people.

Thankfully.

[mzteris]

5. i have

a ~150 lb "horsedog". (heheh- that's what the neighbor kids call him.)

The vet said "part Ridgeback, part BIG...." :ROFL: (maybe mastiff or rottie or lab?) He's really sweet, but he HATES strange people on our porch. (So do I!)

I hated the door-to-door cr@p even when I was a SBC'er myself. I thought it a terribly invasive thing to do.

I called the police once on a bunch that HABITUALLY came at dinner time into my posted NO SOLICITING condo village. That put a stop to that!

[Mythsaje]

11. We've got 3 dogs

ranging from 20 to 55 lbs. The middle sized dog (my Shiba Inu) loves everyone. He's no deterrant at all. The big one IS, but she's not the most vocal of our canines. She prefers to sneak up on someone and scare the hell out of them with a sudden flurry of barks. The Pomeranian is just loud and obnoxious.

[mzteris]

14. My other dog

is just a regular sized border collie mix. His job is to wake up the big dog who wanders over to see if it's really something worth barking about. Then he rattles the windows - usually just about the time the "intruder" hits the porch and reaches for the doorbell. The kids get a kick out of watching grown men RUN away. :rofl:

Our UPS guy usually stands at the bottom of the stairs and throws the package onto the porch.

[AndyTiedye]

12. Any Southern Baptists Who Find their Way to My Door Will Be Confronted...

...by me explaining to them in great detail how their church has strayed from the path.

[Mythsaje]

13. That works too

I'm just reluctant to get involved in that sort of discussion with these people.

[liberaliraqvet26]

2. havent they planted enough seeds?

they wont stop until they have us all living in 1850.

[Pharlo]

4. What a headline ---

I was expecting an activist pro-adultry movement sponsored by the Southern Baptist Conference.

[The Straight Story]

7. If so it would be mary carey going door to door eh :)

I understand why they do, much like any group wanting to get out their message (Vote for X, vote down issue Y, buy our pizza, get home siding, etc).

I just think at times we need to be like this in getting our message out, we would do a lot better then MSM....

[Kmarx]

3. Don't worry about holy rollers.

They proselytize to allay their own inner doubts about the existence of a god. They figure that the more people there are who say they believe, then by weight of numbers, they (the holly rollers) can assuage their own doubts that one does not exist.

[Wright Patman]

6. Baptists overemphasize

the Great Commission. I think everyone in this country knows the 'spiel' by now. This going door-to-door uninvited is just rude, IMHO.

They tend to deemphasize "even as ye have done it unto the least of these, my brethren, ye have done it unto Me."

Also, "blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the children of God." Since 9-11, Baptists have tried to forget that's even in the Bible, much less that Jesus Christ said it.

Let me add that I am speaking of SBC and BMAA types, not all Baptists. I call my local SBC congregation the "First Bushtist Church." * is their Son of God v2.0.

[The Straight Story]

8. Understand the criticism

I grew up baptist myself and am still christian, but I think it is also my job to point out where I think they err (I posted one in religion forum about a free christian drive in with movies like 'burning hell' which seem to focus only on the bad things and not the love).

[BlueStateModerate]

9. This kind of thing isn't *that* uncommon.

Mormons have been doing it for some time. I always have a blast telling them off. I have always wanted to end every sentence with 'bitch', but I don't have the balls to do that. :P

[msongs]

10. taliban, baptists, same thing......you're going to hell when you die so

that gives us permission to make your life hell while you are alive.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

PS - born and raised in the white racist, sexist, homophobic, child beating southern baptist religion....bailed out of that as soon as I got out of the house.

[mitchum]

15. I am nice only to the Jehovah's Witnesses (since they don't vote)

I tell the rest of the door-to-door religious fanatics to get lost

[ldf]

16. maybe another little booklet that says "what the bible says

about that" listing all the contradictory statements found in the "book of books" about the very issues being discussed.

and maybe the visitee can convince the visitor that slavery is acceptable, that adultery is punishable by stoning to death, along with a myriad of other "sins", like talking back to your parents.

if you think about it, jesus maintained his cool about most things, but he flipped out when he found the moneychangers in the temple. just how much money is made on the back of jesus by falwell, graham, dobson, kennedy et al, and who's "donations" are being siphoned off by the gop? afterall, their monkey boy in the whitehouse has god's cellphone number. and they are apparently in constant touch.

everything jesus taught is the opposite of modern day christianity. if jesus can be classified anything, it is liberal.

broad brush? why, yes, it is. when the so-called moderate christians take back their religion, AND the so-called moderate muslims take back theirs, then i'll drop the broad brush.

silence is approval. if the so-called christians aren't out there fighting tooth and nail against those who have bastardized their religion, then they approve. sitting back and saying "tsk, tsk", shaking their heads disapprovingly, doesn't cut it.

same thing goes for the muslims.

in these times, that hateful brand of christianity or islamism is NOT acceptable among civilized peoples. and we civilized peoples have the right to respond as if our very lives depended on it.

because they do.

but don't mind me, i'm just one of those godless atheists that was raised in christianity to the point that it sickened me.

:shrug:

[TlalocW]

17. The sign on my door

I kept getting woken up by Mormons knocking on my door, and after a while, I finally decided I really hate people coming over to my house that I haven't invited so I made up this sign.

--------------------------------------------

NO SOLICITORS!

This includes but is not limited to:

• Girl Scout Cookie Sellers
• Home Security Salespeople
• Paper Deliverers
• AND ESPECIALLY ANYONE WANTING TO TELL ME WHY THEIR RELIGION IS BETTER THAN MINE *

--- Big graphic of a couple holding a bible with a circle around them and a slash going over them not included ---


(Down at the bottom in smaller type)
* Jehovah Witnesses are exceptions only if willing to talk about Deuteronomy 18:20-22 (false prophets) in relation to certain predictions that your church elders have made that did not come true.
** Mormons are exceptions only if willing to tell me about your "sacred underwear/undergarments"
*** Mormons pretending to be Jehovah Witnesses or Jehovah Witnesses pretending to be Mormons will be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.