Some Tactics I Use With A Jehovah’s Witness Elder

October 18, 2013 5:34 pm / 17 Comments /

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 →

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Brigham Young, Love and a Javelin

October 11, 2013 11:24 am / 1 Comment /

Do you love your wife enough to put a javelin through her heart? Brigham Young said he does.

Bart does a great job with his MormonInfo Graphics and he also did a great job with this new video series featuring Brigham Young speaking in General Conference. Check out his YouTube Channel for more.

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The New, New World Translation With A Jehovah’s Witness Elder

October 10, 2013 8:30 am / 11 Comments /

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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Every Former Jehovah’s Witness Needs To See This video

October 8, 2013 11:37 pm / 1 Comment /

WNFJ 2013 at Blue Mountain Christian Retreat

I spent this past weekend at the 35th annual “Witnesses Now For Jesus Convention” in beautiful New Ringgold, PA. I have been attending this convention since the late 90’s and have had the honor and privilege of speaking there six times. The convention is always one of the highlights of my year and this year was no exception. In fact, it was one of the best and most memorable ones ever.

I met a bunch of new friends, some of whom I am connect with on facebook and some of whom I was not. One of the former Witnesses I met is Melissa Bramer. She is a die-hard Green bay Packer fan, a very talented videographer and has a powerful testimony of how she came to Christ. The following video is one of her creations and needs to be seen by everyone who has ever been adversely affected by the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Jehovah’s Witnesses. Read More →

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Birthdays With A Jehovah’s Witness Elder

September 30, 2013 2:15 am / 6 Comments /

(Continued from my previous post)

Jehovah’s Witnesses can find a segue way for anything. One minute we are talking about politics and then the next minute we are talking about birthdays. The connection? The daily text from September 21st discusses the Watchtower’s twisted interpretation of John 15:19– “Because you are no part of the world, . . . on this account the world hates you.”

Earlier in the conversation, I had mentioned that my birthday was the day before our meeting. I wondered if he would bite and if he did, what he would say about it. I’ve talked with Jehovah’s Witnesses before about birthdays, but this would be different because I have a closer relationship with my Witness elder friend that I did with any of the other Witnesses who have spoken with me about this topic. He transitioned from the part of the daily text which mentions abstention from pagan festivals to my birthday. Read More →

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