door knockers

on saturday night, my sister had a housewarming party. (residence reheating, really, since she's been there a few months already.) since she had to work on saturday, and is also quite low on cash at the moment, and i was baking anyway, i made a couple batches of cookies, and some cheese-straws for the party. hubby and i tried the cheese-straws, and he decided they would be really good with some sort of salsa or marinara sauce to go with them, so i found a recipe for him, and then went back to the sewing machine to finish off the present i was making for my sister. the critter was put down for a late nap, since we knew we would be out till probably at least nine, and while he slept, we worked.

then there was a ring on the doorbell. not wanting it to ring again and risk waking up the sleeper, i rushed to the door, wondering who on earth it could be, at 5pm on a saturday.

there were two men and a woman standing at the door, and from the suits my initial thought was 'ah, mormons. um.. on a saturday night?'

"hello-i-am-from-a-church-may-i-ask-do-you-go-to-church?" confusion for a second as i tried to get my head around the accent - my guess is either korean or japanese from their faces - then.. "yes, i do."
"aha. what-church-do-you-go-to?"
"one in concord."

he then told me he was from the Church of Christ (or maybe it was the Church of God, i was trying to keep an ear out to see if the child had woken up or not), and asked me if i had ever heard of the Heavenly Mother. (he really sounded like he was talking with capitals)

"uh... mary?" maybe theyre catholics.. catholics revere mary due to her exalted status as Jesus' mother.... wait.. catholics door-knocking on a saturday night? i was a bit confused by now.

he looked... either confused or surprised. im not sure. then he said something about mary being Jesus' mother, but the Heavenly Mother is Jesus' wife!!!

and thats the point at which i realised my husband was standing behind me, because suddenly a voice said "look, thankyou, but we really arent interested." and he started to close the door.

"its-in-the-bible!" from the other guy. he repeated that a few times as my husband continued to close the door. "please-let-us-read-you-just-one-.." from the first guy, trying to keep the door open.

"look, really, we arent interested. thankyou."

"ITS-YOUR-SALVATION!!" from the woman. she seemed almost frantic.

but my husband closed the door on them, with a final "thankyou".

the last thing i heard from them was "its-your-salvation!" repeated as the door was shut.

well yes, it is. and thats why i'm thankful to my husband for closing the door.

its in the bible? where? i dont recall ever reading "Jesus got married." "Jesus had a wife and 4 sons." "Jesus' family was devastated at His crucifiction, and comforted his mother mary in her grief." if Jesus was married, that would be a pretty big thing, and would surely have been significant enough to put in the bible.

other than what is written in the bible, we have no way of knowing the specifics of Jesus' life. i cant just go down to the registry of births deaths and marriages, look up Jesus, 1AD and go "ah yes, he was born in the year 4bc, married in 20ad, died in 34ad, father at least 6 children, etc etc etc." we rely on what is in the bible, and can only trust that it is fact. if someone wants to come to my door claiming the bible says Jesus was married, well, dont be surprised if i thankyou and shut the door.



but even ignoring all that, if you go to someones door, trying to spread what you believe to be the truth, then yes, you want them to listen, but if they say "thankyou, not interested", its just downright RUDE to try and keep the door open, and pressure them into listening to you. and shouting does not work.