text: "Avoid", you ask?\n\nRather than "avoid" discussing bible truth, the Witnesses are among the most prominent seeking to ENCOURAGE such discussions. Globally, more than 6.5 millions Jehovah's Witnesses share in the public ministry each month. One cannot be considered an "active" Witness unless one preaches.\nhttp://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm\n\nAs true Christians, Jehovah's Witnesses work to please God and Christ rather than man or selves. It does not even matter if anyone listens to their message, since the bible foretold that many (such as the questioner) would not "put up with the healthful teaching". The Witnesses continue to preach because they value the bible's direction more highly than empty accusations and lying slander.\n\nTrue Christians do not work to persecute godly ministers; true Christians do not avoid teaching the Kingdom good news from house to house. Jehovah's Witnesses are proven to be true Christians in that they follow this command of Christ and example of the early Christians.\n\n(Matthew 28:19-20) [Jesus commanded] Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, 20 teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded\n\n(Acts 5:42) Every day in the temple and from house to house they continued without letup teaching and declaring the good news about the Christ, Jesus.\n\n(Acts 20:20) I did not hold back ...from teaching you publicly and from house to house\n\n(2 Timothy 4:3-5) For there will be a period of time when they will not put up with the healthful teaching ...and they will turn their ears away from the truth, whereas they will be turned aside to false stories. You, though, keep your senses in all things, suffer evil, do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.\n\nLearn more:\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/jt/article_04.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/g/1998/7/8/article_01.htm\nhttp://watchtower.org/library/w/2003/3/1/article_01.htm