Why were Jehovah’s Witnesses looking forward to 1975?
What Jehovah’s Witness in his right mind says something like, “You know, there are people who accuse Jehovah’s Witness of being false prophets.” My Witness friend has no way of knowing this yet, but I have studied the false prophecies of the Watchtower extensively. There is no way on God’s green earth that I am going to ignore an invitation like that. Read More →
Because of Halloween, there were some things I wanted to ask my Jehovah’s Witness friend. I expected the conversation to go in one direction, but it took a completely different course. Instead of waiting for my friend to start the religious discussion, I took the initiative.
KW: What do you guys do for Halloween?
JW: Nothing.
KW: Nothing? So when you’ve got trick-or-treaters coming to your door, what do you do?
JW: (Smiling) We just say we don’t do Halloween and that’s it.
KW: Hmmm. Ok. I imagine you go door to door though, right? Because of your ministry work?
JW: Yes, but householders don’t play tricks on us.
KW: (Grinning) So I guess you don’t like it when random strangers show up at your door at inopportune times? Read More →
Today started quickly. Both of the Witnesses arrived before I did and were already seated. I walked into the restaurant and before I could even sit down, my Jehovah’s Witness friend pointed to a book sitting on the table in front of my spot. The book is titled, “The Bible- God’s Word or Man’s?”
KW: What’s this?
JW1: A present.
KW: A present, oh and it’s not even my birthday. Thank you. Read More →
I made a HUGE potential blunder today. I am a collector of Christian T-shirts and wear one almost every day. I am also a big San Antonio Spurs fan so when I found a t-shirt that combined two of my favorite things, well, you know I’m going to wear it. The problem is, I didn’t think about whom I was meeting with today when I dressed. I just put on a shirt and headed out the door.
I arrived at the restaurant before my friend and when he walked up to the table, I could see he was trying to read my shirt. Most people don’t look at it twice. They just assume it is a Spurs shirt. A very small percentage actually see it for what it is, but other people, like my Jehovah’s Witness friend, see a mix. He said;
JW: Worship Spurs?
I was completely dumbfounded. What in the world is this crazy Witness looking at? This was my shirt. Read More →
Is it the Revised New World Translation or the New New World Translation?
This weekend was a HUGE weekend for Jehovah’s Witnesses world-wide. There was an announcement made at their annual meeting about the release of a New, New World Translation. I am not sure what they are calling it yet, but the inside cover of the Bible says “Revised 2013.” If they go with the RNWT instead of the NNWT, then that would mean we have the opportunity to come up with all kinds of new acronyms. My wife and I called the NWT the “New Way to Twist it,” or just “The Twisted” for short. I’m guessing maybe this is the “Newest New Way to Twist it.”
I wanted to see if my friend would tell me about the new Bible because it I knew it would be a good topic of discussion and it would be suspicious if I brought it up, so I decided to ask a question to get things moving in the direction I wanted to go.
When I walked into the restaurant, JW1 and JW2 were sitting at a table with slight grins on their faces. They both had their new Bibles sitting on the table in front of them. Since it had been two weeks since we met last, I thought it natural to ask, “So what’s new?” Read More →
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