Category: Witnessing Tips (page 29 of 29)

Stage 1 of a Witnessing Relationship: Breaking the Ice

Stage 1 - Breaking the iceWhen you first meet someone in a social or business setting, you start out slowly. You engage in small talk. You avoid controversial subjects. You size up the other person, and they size you up as well. As the relationship progresses, you each disclose a little bit more.

Once you develop a certain comfort level, you feel more willing to talk about serious matters. Once you have built a fairly high level of trust, then you get into more controversial topics and open up even more.

If you are going to get through to Jehovah’s Witnesses with the light of the gospel, you will need to follow a similar process.

I believe there are 6 stages to a successful witnessing relationship with Jehovah’s Witnesses. Continue reading

3 Ways Christians Doom Their Witnessing Efforts

"Don't slam the door" sign - my own photoFrom the fact that you are reading this blog, I assume that you want to be able to get through to Jehovah’s Witnesses with the light of the gospel.

The good news is that they want talk with you about God and salvation. That’s why they go door-to-door.

More good news. Witnesses know that it is hard to get people to change their religious views. Like salespeople, they have been trained to keep going even when they meet resistance that takes the form of reluctance, misunderstanding, questions, and objections.

However, once they become convinced that you will never agree to become a Jehovah’s Witness, they will stop meeting with you.

That can happen in one of three ways. Continue reading

You Can’t Get Through to Them All

personal-789411_1920Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses can be very frustrating. Sometimes you feel like you’re hitting your head against a brick wall. Sometimes the Witnesses just walk away.

I want to make clear that I don’t claim to have an infallible method for getting through to them. No one does. There is no set of Bible passages or collection of cleverly worded arguments that are guaranteed to show a Jehovah’s Witness that the Watchtower is wrong.

That said, there are some approaches that work better than others—and I will be sharing many of them with you based on my more than 40 years of efforts to reach them. I’ll also be asking you to interact with this blog and give us the benefit of your own experiences.

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Why Don’t Christians Talk with Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Why don't we talk2.jpgLet’s face it. Many Christians go out of their way to avoid talking with Jehovah’s Witnesses.

When we see them coming, we pull the curtains and pretend we’re not home.

If that doesn’t work, we say, “No thank you. I have my own religion,” and send them on their way.

Why do we do this? Why do we call ourselves evangelical Christians and then refuse to talk about Jesus when we are presented with a golden opportunity? Jehovah’s Witnesses sometimes virtually beg us to discuss God and salvation with them, and still we won’t do it.

Why? I think there are several reasons.

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Why a Blog About Jehovah’s Witnesses?

Kingdom HallThis blog is NOT about bashing Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Quite the opposite.

It’s about Christians loving Jehovah’s Witnesses enough to share the gospel with them effectively and show them from the Bible where the Watchtower organization is wrong.

How did I get started on this?

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