How will my book, Getting Through to Jehovah’s Witnesses: Approaching Bible Discussions in Unexpected Ways, help readers who want to reach Jehovah’s Witnesses with the gospel of Jesus Christ?
Let’s face it. Standard gospel presentations don’t work with Jehovah’s Witnesses. They have been trained to ignore them. They focus instead on teaching us “the truth”—that is, Watchtower theology.
Here’s how it goes. The Witnesses present one of the Watchtower’s heretical teachings. The Christian expresses disagreement. The Witnesses respond with replies the Watchtower has trained them to give. Both sides start exchanging Bible proof texts. Back and forth. Back and forth. Back and forth they go.
The Christian tries to explain sound Bible doctrine to the Witnesses, but the attempt doesn’t penetrate because the Witnesses are locked into their prepared presentations. Everything is utterly predictable. Nothing gets accomplished.
There’s got to be a better way—and there is. Continue reading
As we saw in the previous blog article, using soundbites in witnessing has a downside.
As we saw in the first two blog articles in this series, using soundbites in witnessing can be a very effective communication tool.
In the context of religious dialogue, soundbite witnessing means sharing or defending one’s faith through the use of short, memorable statements, questions, or quotations.
What type of rhetoric do you find more persuasive—long, carefully crafted arguments or concise, easy-to-remember soundbites?
