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If
you profess to be a Christian but never had much contact with Witnesses.
Please consider this plea: share your faith like the
Scripture says! Do your friends, family, and neighbors know about your faith? Think about
it because you know the Witnesses have talked to them! Perhaps, if a Christian had
talked to my Dad before the Watchtower did, my family would all be serving Christ today.
What about your congregation? Are your spiritual brothers and sisters strong enough in
their faith to resist and refute false doctrines? And don't forget your children. Young
Witnesses in school are trained to lure your children into the Watchtower! Don't think it
can't happen to you. Jude wrote to "urge you to contend for the faith that was once
and for all entrusted to the saints." (Verse 3, NIV) Need help, encouragement,
materials? Let me know.
If you are a professing Christian and have friends
or relatives in the Watchtower.
My heart goes out to you. Unfortunately, there is no
sure-fire method to get folks out of the Watchtower. But there is prayer, our biggest
weapon. The consistent and persistent prayer of a congregation or more is very effective.
Make certain your life squares with Scripture. You need to be prepared to dialog with your
JW friend or relative in a way to keep the door open. Never ever argue religion! Learn
some background information about the Watchtower. Steven Hassan's book Combating Mind
Control provides much insight into how "cult" members are conditioned to
think and respond. This may help you devise better discussion strategies. There are
various support groups around the country and on the Internet. Let me know if you need
help locating a group. Also, as mentioned in the first category, get your spiritual
brothers and sisters motivated to get out there and make the true Christ known in your
area. Truth fears nothing.
If you are a former Jehovah's Witness but not into
religion.
Believe me, I can understand. Leaving the Watchtower is an
extremely traumatic experience. A large number of former JWs head off into another
control-type religion or withdraw into miserable insignificance. Let me tell you a secret
that I didn't know: you are not alone!
I thought I was about the only former JW in the world. Wrong! Thousands leave annually and
come to know and serve the true God with a real peace and joy only talked about in the
Watchtower! Read some of the comments I get. Visit some other sites listed in the link
section.
If you are currently one of Jehovah's Witnesses
We both know you would be in trouble with the Watchtower for
reading this...but I'm glad you did! Whatever you do after this, remember love is the key to true
religion (compare 1 Corinthians 13:13). We both know Watchtower love is conditional;
as long as you obey, no problem. We are to obey the Word of Jehovah only, not the rules of
men. Agape love, the love Jesus spoke of, isn't turned on and off like an electric light
switch. Expulsion or disfellowshipping has Biblical basis, but if you read 1 Corinthians 5
carefully, Paul applies it only to the most serious sins and only when one is demonstrably
unrepentant. In fact, Paul urges the Corinthians to forgive and comfort the expelled one
so the Christians would "not be overreached (outwitted) by Satan." (2
Corinthians 2:11)
I felt a lot of emotions when I was disfellowshipped except
the one the Watchtower said I would...love. I felt like a failure, helpless, unworthy of
life, condemned because of an addiction I couldn't overcome alone. What about you? Have
you noticed a lack of real "undeserved kindness" in your congregation even
though the literature continuously paints a rosy picture. Please explore the issue
further. May I suggest you read Ray Franz's Crisis of Conscience? Ray writes kindly and objectively about issues he experienced and
decisions he had to make. Many Witnesses have been helped by this material. Jehovah loves
you and nothing you have done or could do will change that. Jesus offered his life as the
full payment for your sins, but you have to accept this free gift. An organization can't
save you. You, as an individual, must be reconciled to God through Christ as the Bible
prescribes. All need Christ as their mediator. Please contact me and we'll talk.
For those just passing through.
I hope this site touched you somehow. There is a God and he
has a Son who paid a very high price to make your reconciliation with your Creator
possible. There is an eternal life beyond all that is currently visible and your place in
eternity depends on what you do here and now. A man named Jesus walked the earth thousands
of years ago; some believed his message and followed him but most rejected him and his
message. Jesus left the earth but we all at some time come to meet him and we make a
decision...to follow him or to reject him. Forget what you've heard before, forget
televangelist, forget the cults, read your Bible. The choice is yours.
Please feel free to write and tell me your
story, ask me your questions, or chew me out. There is more information on the
"links" page. God bless! |
