CRAIG'S LIST #10 of 10. Stop Imposing Your Stupid Beliefs!

We advertise on CL to share our Testimonies. An example: "X JW 4 Jesus. Request our story." Someone from Everett, WA emailed back: "****, "you know how stupid you sound??!! Stop trying to covertly impose your stupid religious beliefs on others. Just shut the **** up about your story and more people might respect you. I flag this stupid ad every time I see it because I know what you're trying to do."

Here is MY ANSWER!

Our Ad on CL  is there along with ads for “senior chat,” I wonder what they are really up to, “free cardboard,” what’s up with that, “self-help group,” what do they want to help themselves to. Did you click on any of those OR did you pass them by because you were not interested.

According to PEW Research Center at least 100,000 people leave the JW’s each year. Some of those live in Washington state and some are looking to see why others left the WT organization and those people just may click on our ad. No gun to their head, no cost, not looking for any kind of information. Just sharing our story from "In the WT, to Out of the WT and finally Finding Jesus as Lord and Savior." 99% of those who request our Testimonies we never hear from again. What they do and what they think of our Testimonies we never find out. We are not looking to change minds—the Bible tells us that that is the job of the Holy Spirit—ours is to share the Gospel and the Gospel is in our Testimonies.

Our ad is set to run for 30 days but rarely runs for more than 3 before being flagged. In addition, CL prevents us from running ads, often for a 30 day period. I wonder if the self-help group runs into that problem? It is not that people hate us (they don’t know us)—they hate Jesus whom they think they know. And why—because Jesus requires them to repent (turn away) from their sins (and people love their sins) and turn to Jesus to be their Lord (Leader) and Savior. He will lead and we are to follow His example on how to interact with the world.

We know that God will cause all who want to hear the Gospel to hear the Gospel. He may use our Testimonies or not. We are not to worry about what instrument God uses--we are to do our part and make the Gospel known and we do that in our Testimonies.

So, flag if you must. We will not be deterred. God will use us when He sees fit. For 2,000+ years, people have done their best to stop Jesus from growing his church. But toady it continues to grow (check out the growth in China--yes in Communist, God hating China.)

Craig's List #1 is here.