Jehovah’s Witnesses come to your door with the objective of starting a process that will eventually lead you into becoming a Jehovah’s Witness yourself.
They are experienced enough to know that this won’t be accomplished in five minutes on your doorstep. They will have to build rapport with you and meet with you many times in order to persuade you that this is what God wants you to do.
They won’t be ad libbing. Just as salespeople are trained by their companies in how to persuade you to buy their product, so the Watchtower trains Jehovah’s Witnesses with methods for bringing you into their religion.
Understanding this Watchtower conversion process will help you witness to Jehovah’s Witnesses more effectively. I’ll talk more about that in future posts. For now, I just want to acquaint you with the Watchtower conversion method.
I am going to describe the process to you in terms of 10 steps. Continue reading
In a recent article entitled, “Breaking Through an Ancient Barrier” (Awake! No. 3, June 2016), the Watchtower organization states the following: “Some 2,500 years ago…under the rule of King Ahasuerus (likely Xerxes I), the Persians transmitted official decrees across the realm, ‘from India to Ethiopia, 127 provinces, to each province in its own script and to each people in its own language.’
In an article entitled “Is the Bible Just a Good Book?” in the 2016 No. 2 issue of Awake!, the Watchtower organization extols the history of the Bible.
