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Can We Have a Personal Relationship with Jesus?

February 11, 2025 / / 0 Comments

Jehovah’s Witnesses have no personal relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.

Rather than coming directly to Jesus for salvation, Witnesses rely on their dedication and service to the organization they think he has chosen to represent him on earth—the Watchtower Society.

Many years ago, I heard a talk by Arnold Hoffman in which he recommended a devotional approach which focuses attention on the Witnesses’ need for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ.

I give details of the approach in The Come to Jesus Approach (Chapter 7 of my book, Getting Through to Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Today, I’ll give you the highlights. Continue reading

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The Come to Jesus Approach

November 22, 2022 / / 3 Comments

Key Scripture: “You diligently study the Scriptures because you think that by them you possess eternal life. These are the Scriptures that testify about me, yet you refuse to come to me to have life.” (John 5:39-40)

The objective of The Come to Jesus Approach is to help Jehovah’s Witnesses see their need to come to Jesus Christ personally in order to obtain salvation.

The problem

How would you react if someone told you that you need to pray to Michael the archangel and ask him to forgive your sins? That’s how Jehovah’s Witnesses feel if we tell them they need to come to Jesus for forgiveness. It’s only God we should pray to. Only God can forgive sin. And they think Jesus is Michael, not God. For the same reason, Witnesses would consider it sinful and idolatrous to try to have a personal relationship with Jesus. (pp. 73-74)

If you try to address the issue by showing them Jesus is God, the need to come to him for salvation often gets forgotten aside amidst controversy over the deity of Christ or over the Trinity doctrine. You can avoid this problem by bypassing identity issues in order to focus attention on the Witnesses’ need for a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. (p. 74) Continue reading

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Answering Jehovah’s Witnesses with Questions by Philip DelRe

February 20, 2018 / / 7 Comments

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Answering Jehovah’s Witnesses with Questions is a 35-page booklet rather than a full-length book. The author explains why in the Preface (p. 5): “We chose to present this material in booklet form since most people will not read a 300 or 400 page theologically technical book on Jehovah’s Witnesses. So we made this a quick, easy to use resource.”

DelRe’s booklet has the following structure: Continue reading

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Connect Jehovah’s Witnesses with Jesus: Who Forgives Sins?

October 4, 2016 / / 1 Comment

I give eternal lifeIt is important to show Jehovah’s Witnesses their need to come to Jesus to have their sins forgiven. They think their dedication to Jehovah and “his organization” is all they need. Efforts to direct them to Jesus often fail because they think he has a subordinate role. Continue reading

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