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Witnessing To Jehovah's Witnesses

Written by Jerry Robinson
Originally Posted on 5/7/2007

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My Story

As a young teenager, I was baptized into Jehovah's Witnesses. While growing up in the faith, I remember a lot of rules:

  • I could not recieve or give birthdays gifts
  • I could not recieve or give Christmas gifts
  • I was not allowed to stand and salute the American flag or sing the national anthem
  • I could not participate in school plays
  • No Martial Arts, Boxing, or wrestling
  • No boy scouts
  • I was discouraged from attending college
  • I could not be a police officer
  • I could not serve my country in the military
  • Our family could not buy cookies from Girl Scouts
  • I was not allowed to read Christian literature
  • I was not allowed to listen to Christian music
  • I was not allowed to enter a church building
  • I could not own or wear a cross
  • I was discouraged from playing chess
  • I could not join school clubs or sports teams
  • I could not give Mother’s or Father’s Day gifts
  • I was even forbidden to say “God Bless You” when someone sneezed

As a young boy, I was fervent in spreading the good news of Jehovah's Kingdom. I went "door-to-door" proclaiming this good news every weekend and aspired to spend my life in door-to-door service. At the age of 18, I was confronted with the man Jesus Christ and was radically transformed by the power of God.

What led to my conversion? I reached the end of my rope. I had done all of the good works that I knew to do and I still had no power for living. When confronted with mounting problems in my life, I remember desperately crying out to "Jehovah God," but no one answered. I was alone... with all of my good works amounting to nothing. Without a personal relationship with Christ, I was desperate. As puberty raged and my home life fell apart, I turned to drugs and alcohol to numb the pain. Nothing could fill the God-shaped hole in my life. Without a personal relationship with God, I continued a downward spiral through wrong living and and wrong thinking. One evening, I did a large amount of drugs and was scared that I had overdosed. I cried out once again to God. I told Him how confused I was. I did not know who God was anymore. Was He Jehovah? Buddha? Allah? Jesus? I was so clueless and deceived and desperate for truth. It was that evening that a change began in me. No less than 3 months after that experience, I was in a church singing hymns to Christ and learning about Jesus for the first time in my life. It took Almighty God to pull me out of the pit that I was in. That pit was full of deception and doctrines of men. It was full of self-reliance and good works without faith.

Have you ever won a Jehovah's Witness to Christ?

After becoming born again, I realized that in all of my door-to-door experiences with Jehovah's Witnesses, I had never been challenged effectively with the truth of God's Word. Oh sure, I had been confronted by a few impatient Christians who called me deceived. But I had never been approached by a born-again Christian with love and told the truth. I want to help you reach people with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And I can show you specific ways to effectively approach the Jehovah's Witness on your doorstep. On this page, I will provide links and resources to help you witness to Jehovah's Witnesses.

Throughout the Bible, sincere seekers will find a truth woven into every story and on every page. That truth is: 'God Reigns!' As we gather together as the body of Christ and watch the world's media and diplomats focus it's full attention on the city of Jerusalem and the Middle East, we rest in the knowledge that even the mightiest human leader is merely a pawn within the true scope of things.

If you are blindly searching for the light in the dark, I urge you to ask Jesus Christ into your heart. The scales will fall from your eyes and what once was darkened will be filled with light. Jesus Christ said: 'I am the way, the truth, and the life. No man comes to the Father except by me.' (John 14:6) There is no other way.

If you already have Jesus Christ in your heart, hold your peace over the days and weeks ahead and rest assured that 'God Reigns!' Your confidence in God in these tumultuous times will help further the Kingdom of God whether you realize it, or not.

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