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Taking the Initiative

34 InitiativeBy far, the most usual situation in which Christians encounter Jehovah’s Witnesses is the familiar one where they come to our homes as part of their door-to-door witnessing.

In other words, they are the ones taking the initiative.

Unfortunately, most Christians hide behind the curtains—pretending they aren’t home—or turn them away immediately by saying, “No, thank you. I have my own religion.”

If you have invited them in and made efforts to get through to them with the real gospel, I applaud you.

Keep it up!

That said, in the next several posts I want to expand your horizons to suggest ways in which you can take the initiative in connecting with Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Here are some of the opportunities I’ll be discussing: Continue reading

Letting Go

33 Letting GoIn dealing with Jehovah’s Witnesses, there are three areas in which you will eventually have to let go:

  1. Discussing a specific passage of scripture
  2. Focusing on a specific topic
  3. Meeting with the Witnesses altogether

Let’s talk about each of these. Continue reading

Be Creative

32 CreativeSometimes when you are trying to explain biblical Christianity to Jehovah’s Witnesses, it helps to be creative.

Here are a couple examples from my own experience. Continue reading

The Effective Use of Silence

31 SilenceSeveral times, I have had to learn lessons about witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses the hard way.

The effective use of silence is one of them. Continue reading

Using the Kingdom Interlinear Translation

30 KITThe Kingdom Interlinear Translation of the Greek Scriptures is a Watchtower book that’s available free on its website.

Essentially, it’s the Wescott-Hort interlinear New Testament with the Greek words on the bottom line and the English equivalents above it.

Even if you don’t know Greek, you can sometimes use this resource to give Jehovah’s Witnesses reason to question the Watchtower’s rendering of important texts in its New World Translation.

Here are some examples of how this can be done. Continue reading

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