If your like all of us from time to time you get someone knocking on your door. It may be the Jehovah Witness trying to bring you into their church. They are just trying to save you. Unfortunately they are very confused and don't have all the facts about their own faith, because they are told what parts of scripture to read.
A few years ago I worked on nights for a company and there was a young man who had become Jehovah Witness. He had been catholic and had a problem with a priest. He decided to leave the catholic church and ended up in the Jehovah Witness church. He was a very nice young man and his heart was in the right place.
He was forever trying to get me to come to his church. I had told him I was in the Lutheran Church at the time and was not interested in his church. He would keep telling me different scriptures to try and persuade me to change. The problem was I did not know how to respond to his questions. I prayed over and over again for some kind of help.
One day my wife and I were in a christian book store and I was looking for different bibles. My wife came up to me and said look at these books over here. Now I had not told her about this person or what was going on with his questions. The book she showed me was called Jehovah's Witnesses Answered Verse By Verse by David A. Reed. I could not believe this was happening. All I could think of was God was answering my prayers.
The young man at work had tried to give me one of his bibles and I kept refusing it. A thought came into my head and I told him at some time I would ask for his bible. He thought I was going to want to become Jehovah Witness. I told him again I had no intention of joining his church. After I had read the book my wife showed me I started finding some other books on the same subject. I then decided I would like his bible, so I could see if what was in the books I was reading were true. He thought I was going to use his bible to bad mouth his church and I told him I would never do that.
One day he came to me and said that Jesus was not God, but was the Arc Angel Michael. I suddenly remembered something I read in the book about that very subject. I asked him do you have your bible here and he said yes. I told him to go to the place where Thomas put his finger in the holes in Jesus hands. I asked him what did he say to Jesus. He read it and it said he called Jesus My Lord and My God, My Savior and my King. I asked him did Jesus rebuke Thomas and tell him that was not so ? Of course he had to say no, because Jesus did not rebuke him. He had to accept that Jesus is God. He then had a very puzzled look on his face and went away. We had a few more encounters like that and eventually I had another job and left that company.
The funny thing is that where ever I went whether a job or some place there was always some one asking about Jehovah Witnesses. The main thing I learned through this journey was that you can not try and fill the person with all kinds of answers right away or they will run to their elders and be further brainwashed, which is what some people refer to it as. I would definitely advise anyone to learn about this church before trying to talk to them, because they are very schooled at what they do.
The main thing in life to treat everyone with love and kindness no matter what they believe. I have also found that when ever I have a problem of any kind I PRAY PRAY and PRAY some more. We don't always get the answer in the way we want, but it will happen according to his will.
Thank You for reading and God Bless. All comments are welcomed.
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