I "was" a Jehovah's witness who recently decided to leave AMA

This resonated with me.

My step dad is a jehovas witness and I remember one time the jehovas witness people came to our door and my stepdad hadn't practiced since he had moved to the US. I was raised baptist my whole life (not really practicing but we went to church during Easter and Christmas and then 2-3 times but that's about all) anyways that day when those people came to our house something in him snapped and now we were all forced to meet with them and they would come every week and idk just some of their beliefs just didn't make sense to me and I thought they were outrageous but reading about their mission to preach the word of God to as many people as they could and then devoting themselves to spending an hour a week with them for a week. That helped me to see the positive side of it when all I use to see were the jokes and strange annotation those things have jehovas witnesses. Idk like that's really what God ask us to do. Also, I never was a big devout Christian but I did my small forced part but just recently my boyfriend and I got in to doing bible studies just the two of us and discussing our take on it and we have really found a good solid Christian structure and have a real, true, personal decision faith. Not because we are told to have faith and belief but because we truly feel that way. And I totally understand if you could care less about this because you don't believe. I just mentioned this because it truly did help me understand something a little better and that before I considered strange. I appreciate when I am able to see a positive note to something.

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