Not only that, it's good to say that you're Baptist right away because you don't want
people to mistake you for being a Jehovah's Witness or a Mormon or something else.
Even if I just go to the door and people just take one look at me before I've even opened
my mouth and they're just like, no, and they just go to slam the door, I usually, if I
can just kind of get in there and just yell, I'm Baptist, you know, just to at least let
them know.
Because I don't mind people rejecting me, but I just want to know what they're rejecting
because I've had some people go to slam the door and I said, from Baptist church.
Those are the words I usually yell out or just from a Baptist church.
And then they'll stop and go, oh, yeah, come on in, you know, I thought you were the Mormon.
In fact, one time I was out soul winning and this car drove by and these guys are
yelling at us out the window.
I couldn't even understand what they were saying, but they were angrily yelling at us
out the window.
Ten minutes later, the car pulls around and says, oh man, I'm so sorry, I thought
you guys were Jehovah's Witnesses.
I'm a Baptist too.
And he turned out he was a saved Christian and he was just so angry that he thought
that we were out spreading lies or false teaching.
So anyway, I like to, you know, start out, knock, friendly knock, big smile, be nice,
and let them know right away who you are.
The first thing out of my mouth is, you know, hi, I'm just here to invite you to
Faithful Word Baptist Church, something along those lines, just to let them know right
away who you are and where you're from.
And that leads right into the next thing I want to say, which is don't waste people's time.
Cut to the chase.
I know one thing that irritates me when the Jehovah's false witnesses come to my door
is that they beat around the bush.
They don't even tell you that they're Jehovah's Witnesses.
You have to ask them, you know, are you a Jehovah's Witness?
Oh, well, yeah, you know, get out of here.
But the point is you don't want to beat around the bush and waste people's time.
So, you know, just let people know.
It's polite to just let people know right away who you are, why you're there.
Be friendly.
Let them know you're from a Baptist church.