You are most likely to encounter Jehovah’s Witnesses in one of four places:

1. At your doorstep during their door-to-door ministry
2. At a literature cart (these are employed mostly in large cities where there is a lot of pedestrian traffic.)
3. At a Kingdom Hall, if you choose to attend one of their meetings.
4. In your daily life – at work, at school, or in your neighborhood.

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Today’s post deals with online terminology which is used when discussing Jehovah’s Witnesses and ex-Jehovah’s Witnesses.

My purpose isn’t to teach you how to pin labels on people.

Rather, it’s to expand your thinking when you encounter a Jehovah’s Witness or someone with a Watchtower background. Continue reading

Just as knowing why a person stopped being a Jehovah’s Witness can be helpful to you in getting through to them with the real gospel, so knowing how they left the Watchtower can help you understand their spiritual journey and current spiritual needs.

There are a number of different methods by which Jehovah’s Witnesses leave the Watchtower religion. Continue reading

There are a number of reasons why Jehovah’s Witnesses leave the Watchtower religion. If the departure is voluntary, it often occurs over a period of time. The initial separation is usually mental, as the person realizes they no longer believe some of the key Watchtower teachings and instead are coming to believe something else.

Knowing the reasons of the person you are dealing with can be very helpful in assessing their current spiritual needs and their willingness (or unwillingness) to discuss spiritual matters with you. Continue reading

Today we begin a new blog series on how to help Jehovah’s Witnesses who are in the process of leaving the Watchtower or who have already left. Continue reading