This series has used the contents of the Watchtower’s study book, What Does the Bible Really Teach?, as a springboard for employing the approaches contained in my book, Getting Through to Jehovah’s Witnesses: Approaching Bible Discussions in Unexpected Ways.

I’m sure you can see the difference between the passive student role the Witnesses are expecting you to fulfill and the active approach I have set out in this series.

By knowing ahead of time what topics are likely to be covered, making your own notes, and being ready to address the topics using the various approaches I have given you, you will be able to present the gospel effectively to the Witnesses in the midst of their own Watchtower book study.

Going through “Bible Teach” step by step has made this a long series—more than 60 posts.

Because of that, this summarizing post contains two indexing outlines:

• Outline #1 correlates “Bible Teach” chapters with chapters from my book. I’ve also included key points that I made in the blog posts along with links so you can access the posts easily.

• Outline #2 correlates “Bible Teach” chapters with related “Bible Teach” appendices. I’ve also included the posts from this series where I discuss those appendices. Again, I’ve provided links for your convenience.

For those who prefer online tables to outlines, I have indexed this blog series by way of three tables.

You can access each of these tables in PDF format by clicking on the link for the table you want to view.

• Table 1: “Bible Teach” Chapters — Getting Through to Jehovah’s Witnesses will help you if you are working your way through “Bible Teach” and you want to know which of my approaches will be useful for a particular chapter. Key points and links to related blog posts from this series are provided. Table 1

• Table 2: “Bible Teach” Chapters — “Bible Teach” Appendices correlates “Bible Teach” chapters with its appendices. Related posts from this series are linked. Table 2

• Table 3: Getting Through to Jehovah’s Witnesses Chapters — “Bible Teach” is the reverse index of Table #1. It will be helpful if you are thinking in terms of specific approaches and topics (the new birth, faith and works, the deity of Christ, etc.) and want to know where best to get into them in the course of a “Bible Teach” study. Key points and links to related blog posts from this series are provided here as well. Table 3

To remind yourself of specifics in any of these resources, simply click the links to my posts and reread my comments.

If the Witnesses insist on using a different study book, then by following the same procedure as I have, you can correlate the contents of that book with the approaches contained in my book.

If you need help, feel free to email me.

Here are the two outlines I referred to above:

Outline #1: Correlating “Bible Teach” chapters with chapters from Getting Through to Jehovah’s Witnesses

Chapter 1: What Is the Truth About God?

• The Jesus Is the God-Man Approach (Chapter 13)
  • Key Point: Defer John 17:3 discussion (“The Father is the only true God”) until Chapter 4
• The Divine Name Approach (Chapter 16)
  • Key Point: Refuting “to know someone, you must know their name and use it”
  • Key point: Refuting “Jesus used Jehovah’s name in public”

Chapter 2: The Bible—A Book from God

• The False Prophecies Approach (Chapter 20)
  • Key Point: Stuffing aces: Bible writers honestly admit their faults and fulfilled prophecies builds confidence in reliability (you can use this “ace” when discussing Watchtower prophecies in Chapter 8)

Chapter 3: What Is God’s Purpose for the Earth?

• The Righteousness Approach (Chapter 6)
  • Key Point: Ask the Witnesses exactly how we can progress to perfection during the millennial kingdom
• The Bodily Resurrection Approach (Chapter 9)
  • Key Point: Heaven and earth are not mutually exclusive
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: Follow up The Righteousness Approach by showing Witnesses our need for inner transformation

Chapter 4: Who Is Jesus Christ?

• Irreconcilable Differences (Chapter 5)
  • Key Point: Jesus’ positional subordination to the Father
• The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7)
  • Key Point: Knowing about someone v. knowing them personally
  • Key Point: John 5:39-40: We must come to Jesus personally for life, not to the right organization
• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: Deciding whether to get into faith and works here or wait until Chapter 5
• The Bodily Resurrection Approach (Chapter 9)
  • Key Point: Chapter 4 says God resurrected Jesus to spirit life, but I recommend waiting until Chapter 7 to discuss his resurrection body
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: What to do if Witnesses say Jesus was born again at his baptism
• The Jesus Isn’t Michael Approach (Chapter 12)
  • Key Point: Recommendation to discuss Michael here rather than waiting until Chapter 9; main arguments presented here
• The Jesus Is the God-Man Approach (Chapter 13)
  • Key Point: Dealing with Watchtower arguments against deity of Christ—firstborn, only begotten, beginning, creator, subordination, seizure, Almighty
  • Key Point: Avoid getting sidetracked
• The Holy Spirit Is God Approach (Chapter 14)
  • Key Point: Was the Holy Spirit “poured out” on Jesus?
  • Key Point: Discussion of Anti-Trinity appendix: The Holy Spirit searches and knows the deep things of God

Chapter 5: The Ransom—God’s Greatest Gift

• The Righteousness Approach (Chapter 6)
  • Key Point: We can’t make ourselves worthy by our works
• The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7)
  • Key Point: Jesus paid for OUR sins, not just Adam’s
• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: Refuting Watchtower faith plus works proof texts
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: We all need to be in the new covenant, not just 144,000
• The Jesus Is the God-Man Approach (Chapter 13)
  • Key Point: Who came to save us? God or someone lesser?
• The Christian Freedom Approach (Chapter 17)
  • Key Point: Discussion of the cross issue

Chapter 6: Where Are the Dead?

• Witnessing Principles I Learned (Chapter 4)
  • Key Point: Word substitution technique: “spirit”
• The Bodily Resurrection Approach (Chapter 9)
  • Key Point: If there’s no separate soul or spirit, and if Jesus’ body wasn’t raised, then what part of Jesus was resurrected from the dead?
• The Justice for the Wicked Approach (Chapter 18)
  • Key Point: Conscious existence after death in light of Ecclesiastes 9:5
  • Key Point: Rich man and Lazarus regarding consciousness after death

Chapter 7: Real Hope for Your Loved Ones Who Have Died

• Irreconcilable Differences (Chapter 5)
  • Key Point: Progressing to perfection during the millennial kingdom—how?
• The Righteousness Approach (Chapter 6)
  • Key Point: What exactly pays our sin debt? Faith in Christ’s sacrifice? Our death? Our good works?
  • Key Point: Ask Witnesses to explain how we progress from having a sinful nature to moral perfection
• The Bodily Resurrection Approach (Chapter 9)
  • Key Point: Resurrection or re-creation? 1 Corinthians 15
  • Key Point: Romans 6:7: acquitted from sin by death?
  • Key Point: Refuting a “spirit resurrection” of Jesus and the 144,000
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: How can the millennial kingdom be a moral paradise?
  • Key Point: 1000 years won’t get us to perfection without the inner transformation of new birth
• The Jesus Is the God-Man Approach (Chapter 13)
  • Key Point: Jesus’ human subordination to the Father
  • Key Point: Who will judge us?
• The Divine Name Approach (Chapter 16)
  • Key Point: Honoring the Son just as we honor the Father
• The Justice for the Wicked Approach (Chapter 18)
  • Key Point: Refers back to Chapter 6 regarding Ecclesiastes 9:5
  • Key Point: Rich man and Lazarus regarding Hades and “clean slate at death” Watchtower teaching

Chapter 8: What Is God’s Kingdom?

• The Bodily Resurrection Approach (Chapter 9)
  • Key Point: Refuting an invisible return of Christ
  • Key Point: Reinforcing the refutation of a 2-class salvation system
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: Challenge the Watchtower’s 2-class salvation teaching
• The Divine Name Approach (Chapter 16)
  • Key Point: What honoring someone’s name means
• The False Prophecies Approach (Chapter 20)
  • Key Point: Documenting false 1914 predictions
  • Key Point: Refuting Watchtower defenses

Chapter 9: Are We Living in “the Last Days”?

• The Jesus Isn’t Michael Approach (Chapter 12)
  • Key Point: Reference back to Chapter 4 if the Michael topic wasn’t adequately covered at that time
• The False Prophecies Approach (Chapter 20)
  • Key Point: Poor Watchtower prophecy / dates track record

Chapter 10: Spirit Creatures—How They Affect Us

• The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7)
  • Key Point: Praying to Jesus
• The Jesus Isn’t Michael Approach (Chapter 12)
  • Key Point: Hebrews 1 and 2: Jesus is greater than any angel
• The Jesus Is the God-Man Approach (Chapter 13)
  • Key Point: The Watchtower’s insertion of “other” in Colossians 1
• The Divine Name Approach (Chapter 16)
  • Key Point: Must we pray to Jehovah by name?

Chapter 11: Why Does God Allow Suffering?

• The Righteousness Approach (Chapter 6)
  • Key Point: How is the threat of annihilation during the millennial kingdom consistent with the Watchtower teaching that God wants people to serve him without being under compulsion?
  • Key Point: Using Romans 7:18 to show Witnesses the depths of our slavery to sin
• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: What is God’s provision for ridding us of our sinful nature?
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: What is God’s provision for ridding us of our sinful nature?

Chapter 12: Living in a Way That Pleases God

• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: Without a transforming new birth, none of us can meet God’s righteous standards
  • Key Point: Ephesians 2:8-10
  • Key Point: Keith Walker’s equations: works are product of salvation, not the prerequisite
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: Trying to be righteous without a new birth will fail
  • Key Point: We can’t produce “the fruitage of the spirit” without a new birth by the Spirit
• The Christian Freedom Approach (Chapter 17)
  • Key Point: Participation in war or politics
• The Life and Death Issues Approach (Chapter 19)
  • Key Point: Recommend deferring blood discussion until Chapter 13

Chapter 13: A Godly View of Life

• The Life and Death Issues Approach (Chapter 19)
  • Key Point: Blood transfusions: Watchtower history, scriptural arguments, refuting “gross disrespect for the ransom sacrifice” argument

Chapter 14: How to Make Your Family Life Happy

• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: Where do we get the ability to live like Jesus?

Chapter 15: Worship That God Approves

• The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7)
  • Key Point: The “narrow gate” of Matthew 7:13-14 is Jesus himself, not works and organizational affiliation
  • Key Point: Refuting “the invitation to come to Jehovah’s organization for salvation”
  • Key Point: Our preaching should focus on the King, not the kingdom
• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: Balancing “know them by their fruits” with Pharisees appearing righteous to men
• The Jesus Isn’t Michael Approach (Chapter 12)
  • Key Point: One of the last opportunities to use my book as a springboard to discuss the Trinity
• The Jesus Is the God-Man Approach (Chapter 13)
  • Key Point: One of the last opportunities to use my book as a springboard to discuss the Trinity
• The Holy Spirit Is God Approach (Chapter 14)
  • Key Point: One of the last opportunities to use my book as a springboard to discuss the Trinity
• The Divine Name Approach (Chapter 16)
  • Key Point: Refuting “true Christians make Jehovah’s name known”
• The Christian Freedom Approach (Chapter 17)
  • Key Point: Discussion of “love v. war”
  • Key Point: Discussion of neutrality issue
• The Justice for the Wicked Approach (Chapter 18)
  • Key Point: Immortality of soul / torment in hellfire
• The Life and Death Issues Approach (Chapter 19)
  • Key Point: Watchtower: Based on Bible or man’s ideas?
• The False Prophecies Approach (Chapter 20)
  • Key Point: Are Watchtower teachings in accord with the Bible?
  • Key Point: “Preaching the good news” doesn’t mean spreading false speculations
  • Key Point: Concerning leaving Babylon the Great and becoming a worshipper of Jehovah

Chapter 16: Take Your Stand for True Worship

• The Christian Freedom Approach (Chapter 17)
  • Key Point: Are birthdays and holidays unclean / pagan?

Chapter 17: Draw Close to God in Prayer

• The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7)
  • Key Point: Bible examples of Christians praying to Jesus
• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: Good works aren’t a prerequisite to a relationship with God
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: Good works aren’t a prerequisite to a relationship with God; in fact, the inner transformation of the new birth is what enables us to do satisfactory works
• The Holy Spirit Is God Approach (Chapter 14)
  • Key Point: The Holy Spirit does things only a person can do
• The Divine Name Approach (Chapter 16)
  • Key Point: Ask Witnesses to show you in the Bible of an example of Jesus praying to Jehovah by name

Chapter 18: Baptism and Your Relationship With God

• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: Discussing Philippians 2:12: “work out your own salvation with fear and trembling…”
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: Baptism is a picture of our death to the old life and rising via a new birth
  • Key Point: The flesh can’t overcome the flesh
• The Holy Spirit Is God Approach (Chapter 14)
  • Key Point: Name shared by the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit

Chapter 19: Remain in God’s Love

• The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7)
  • Key Point: Chapter stresses continuing to learn about Jehovah, to study the Scriptures, to think deeply on them, and to pray sincerely from the heart
  • Key Point: Use Emmaus disciples as example of paramount need to have a personal relationship with Jesus in which he opens the scriptures to us and makes our hearts burn within us
• The Faith and Works Approach (Chapter 8)
  • Key Point: Works are the product of salvation, not the prerequisite to salvation (reinforcing the two equations in my discussion of Chapter 12)
  • Key Point: Depending on Christ alone for salvation is the opposite of depending on our works or organizational affiliation
• The New Birth Approach (Chapter 10)
  • Key Point: Keeping God’s commandments from the heart requires a new birth
• The Holy Spirit Is God Approach (Chapter 14)
  • Key Point: Jude 20-23 as proof text for the Trinity
• The Justice for the Wicked Approach (Chapter 18)
  • Key Point: Jude 20-23 as proof text for hell: God’s love = “snatching out of the fire” (Jude 23)

Outline #2: Correlating “Bible Teach” chapters with related “Bible Teach” appendices and posts from this series

Chapter 1: What Is the Truth About God?

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: The Divine Name—Its Use and Meaning
  • See my post: The Importance of the Name “Jehovah”

Chapter 2: The Bible—A Book from God

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Jesus Christ—The Promised Messiah
  • See my post: Establishing the Superiority of the Bible

Chapter 3: What Is God’s Purpose for the Earth?

• No related appendix

Chapter 4: Who Is Jesus Christ?

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: How Daniel’s Prophecy Foretells the Messiah’s Arrival
  • See my post: Did Jesus Become the Messiah at his Baptism?
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Who Is Michael the Archangel?
  • See my post: Is Jesus God the Son or Michael the Archangel?
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: The Truth About the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
  • See my post: Dealing with the Anti-Trinity Appendix

Chapter 5: The Ransom—God’s Greatest Gift

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Why True Christians Do Not Use the Cross in Worship
  • See my post: Did Jesus Die on a Cross or a “Torture Stake”?
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: The Lord’s Evening Meal—An Observance that Honors God
  • See my post: Overcoming the Power of Sin

Chapter 6: Where Are the Dead?

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: “Soul” and “Spirit”—What Do These Terms Really Mean?
  • See my post: What Are the Soul and Spirit?

Chapter 7: Real Hope for Your Loved Ones Who Have Died

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: What Are Sheol and Hades?
  • See my post: Discussing the Coming Resurrections
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Judgment Day—What Is It?
  • See my post: What Is Judgment Day?
  • See my post: Do We Get a Second Chance After Death?

Chapter 8: What Is God’s Kingdom?

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Judgment Day—What Is It?
  • See my post: Destination—Heaven or Earth?
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: 1914—A Significant Year in Bible Prophecy
  • See my post: Was the Watchtower Right About 1914?

Chapter 9: Are We Living in “the Last Days”?

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Who Is Michael the Archangel?
  • See my post: Christ in the End Times

Chapter 10: Spirit Creatures—How They Affect Us

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: The Truth About the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
  • See my post: Jesus, Angels, and Watchtower Speculation

Chapter 11: Why Does God Allow Suffering?

• No related appendix

Chapter 12: Living in a Way That Pleases God

• No related appendix

Chapter 13: A Godly View of Life

• No related appendix

Chapter 14: How to Make Your Family Life Happy

• No related appendix

Chapter 15: Worship That God Approves

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Identifying “Babylon the Great”
  • See my post: Get Out of “Babylon the Great”!
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: The Truth About the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit
  • See my post:  Dealing with the Anti-Trinity Appendix

Chapter 16: Take Your Stand for True Worship

• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Why True Christians Do Not Use the Cross in Worship
  • See my post: “Unclean Teachings and Practices”
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Was Jesus Born in December?
  • See my post: “Unclean Teachings and Practices”
• Related “Bible Teach” Appendix: Should We Celebrate Holidays?
  • See my post: “Unclean Teachings and Practices”

Chapter 17: Draw Close to God in Prayer

• No related appendix

Chapter 18: Baptism and Your Relationship With God

• No related appendix

Chapter 19: Remain in God’s Love

• No related appendix