Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses

Here is a quick overview of this book.First of all, I share an important encounter I had with two Jehovah’s Witnesses that came to our church door. In many ways, what happened that day provides the true purpose for this book – exactly how do you effectively witness to a Jehovah’s Witness?In the second chapter, I show what Jehovah’s Witnesses believe about themselves. Most people are shocked to know how they really think about themselves. And no one can effectively minister to a Jehovah’s Witness until he understands how he is thinking about his life.The third chapter is just as shocking, and helps answer why Jehovah’s Witnesses target weak Christian believers. In this chapter, we learn what they believe about Christians and churches. It is a tragic historical truth, but many Jehovah’s Witnesses today were former professing Christians and members of Christian churches.

This may be a startling truth to many, but nearly all of the main leaders of the Watchtower Society since its founding in 1879 have been people who were raised in strong, Bible-believing, churches.In the next chapter, we give a brief but detailed overview of the first four presidents of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. We present historical backgrounds on Charles Taze Russell, Judge Joseph Rutherford, Nathan Knorr, and the unofficial “theologian” of the Watchtower, Frederick Franz. As of January 1st of 1976, the executive leadership is under the domain of the Governing Body.

This is the group leading the Watchtower Society today.In the fifth chapter, we have the all-important study of the beliefs of the Jehovah’s Witnesses. This is a fascinating overview on many of the bizarre doctrinal positions and prophecies that have been formulated over the years.

We will look at everything from blood transfusions to saluting the flag, from 1925 to 1975, from memorial services to the Beth Sarim mansion, from the Revised New World Translation to Rutherford’s book, Millions Now Living Will Never Die!Finally, based on what we’ve learned about their history and beliefs, we’ll look at some very practical and definite ways that a Christian believer can use to engage a Jehovah’s Witness about his theology. Special emphasis will be given to prophetic date-setting and doctrinal flip-flops that have tormented Jehovah’s Witnesses for years.