Spreading The Good News

While I was working on my laptop, Scottie started barking. He only does that when someone's at the door.

I looked up and there was a lady in a suit and scarf, standing at my front door reading the Ten Commandments poster that we had Blue Tac-ed to our glass panel. Beth had done the poster at Sunday School and we thought it made a great public statement of faith for our family.

Behind the lady stood a young man in a black suit and shades.

Around here, we're quite accustomed to door knocks from Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses.

The lady and I had a meaningful conversation about the Bible, her mission as JW, how both rich and poor both need to hear the Good News. She handed me a booklet about global warming and said JW publishes on a different topic each month and she could come by and give me another one next time if I wanted.

She thanked me for my time, I wished her a good morning and God's blessings, and we went our ways - she, onwards to the next house, me back into the warmth and comfort of mine.

I have to tell you, it made my morning richer just to be able to talk with someone who shares my faith.

While I have issues with the Mormons and JWs on their doctrines and interpretation of the Bible, there is no questioning their zeal and the way they put faith to action by (literally) walking out two by two to bring the Good News to the neighbours.

In my two years here, I have not encountered any Catholics or Protestants door-knocking to share their faith.

Indeed, my JW visitors put me to shame. I can't imagine myself going house-to-house giving out tracts or talking to strangers about their need for God. With someone I know, perhaps, but not a complete stranger. And certainly not in winter!

What does this say about my faith and how seriously I take the Great Commission?
Matthew 28:18-20

18Then Jesus came to them and said, "All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. 19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in[a] the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age."