Your Family Member Has
Been Socializing With Some of
Jehovah's Witnesses
(Or Their Dating One)
Why are Jehovah's Witnesses befriending your family member? What should you do? Are they simply becoming friends and enjoying each other’s company? Most likely your family member is enjoying the company of friendly people, as I did, and has no idea of the real motive behind the friendship, until later on when it just may be too late. In the witness mind there is solely ONE purpose: to convert. Each Jehovah's Witness, including myself, has been repeatedly taught to "make disciples" out of each and every opportunity possible and at the same time not to be "befriending persons of this world" and "being no part of this world." Now put the two together and you can see how they misquote the scriptures, such as Apostle Paul's words of "not becoming unevenly yoked" with a non-Christian. It's a shame they can not understand that Paul was speaking about being a Christian and following love, not being a disciple of the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and following man made rules.
If you have a family member who has befriended one of Jehovah's Witnesses, beware. Remember their sole purpose is to convert, no matter how seeming harmless they appear. Their tactics are extremely deceptive. For instance during the seven years I went knocking on doors to preach the Watchtower kingdom, I would always speak of the "paradise earth", achieving perfect health, one world government, God's name, the wrongness of other religions compared to the Watchtower Society and so forth. Never did I or would I be the first one to mention the Watchtowers Society's rule on No Blood transfusions to even the point of death or the refusal to salute the flag, or defend the country against attack or the refusal to celebrate each and every holiday except wedding anniversaries, that all other religions are from Satan the Devil and are interpreted to be "Babylon the Great" and only their organization is the right religion out of every religion on earth, that all governments are controlled by Satan the Devil, that the witnesses completely shun anyone, including family members, who has left the organization, including the restriction on reading any outside material such as this web page, and much much more that would make a non conditioned person's stomach turn. This is why after a witness befriends a family member a slow weekly bible study with a Watchtower publication is required. It takes a slow influencing with a non bible publication to condition, yes, brainwash, a person to accept a man's organization with man made rules, regulations and scriptural interpretations as supposedly coming from God's sole channel of communication on earth, the "faithful and discreet slave class", the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society, also known as Jehovah's Witnesses.
It took the Christians of the first century an hour speech to convert their followers, who then immediately became baptized. Yet with the witnesses, it takes months of weekly bible studies and approval of the elders before a person can get baptized. Why is this? Apparently in the first century accepting Christ as the ransom sacrifice and oneself as a sinner, willing to repent and live a new life of love and compassion for others was what was required. But with the Watchtower Society, to become one of Jehovah's Witnesses a person has to follow a man made organization with man made scriptural interpretations, rules, regulations and disciplinary actions.
So what do you do about you family member? Like anything else, there are allot a variables. You must reach your family member and show them that:
1. Love overrides intellectualism. And intellectualism acts as a blinding force against common sense
2. That these so-called detailed scriptural explanations are not what true Christianity is about.
3. If they are at the stage where the Watchtower's interpretations have already become somewhat imbedded in the mind of your family member, then have them read web pages such as this and the many books out there. I recommend Ray Franz’s book "In Search of Christian Freedom." This book comes from a former Governing Body member of 9 years, who grew up in the organization and was one of Jehovah's Witnesses for over 60 years.
4. Do they know the details about the shunning issue? If not, inform them.
5. Check out www.freeminds.org - Good page on a friend of mine Wilbur Lingle. His book and videos are very helpful for you and your family member who is associating with one of or many of Jehovah's Witnesses.
