E very Ex-JW who knows Jesus has a personal testimony. This means that
Jesus reached out to him personally. As the Good Shepherd who went to find
one lost sheep (Lk. 15:4-6), He tells us "there is joy in the presence of the angels
of God over one sinner who repents." (Lk 15:10).
If you ask a former Jehovah's Witness what happened when he received Jesus
as Lord , he will tell you that there was a change of authority when he went from
the Kingdom of darkness and entered the Kingdom of light. he will tell you he
had been brainwashed by Satan (2 Cor.4:4) but now he is washed in the blood
of the Lamb (Rev. 7:14) --his "mind" is now set on the things of the Holy Spirit
(Ro. 8:5,6). It is the Lord alone who saves (Jn. 14:6).
We are His servants, commissioned to preach to the lost, those who need a
change of mind and need to be reconciled to Jesus (Col. 1:21,22). Our message
is the one He gives to us and is the Gospel. Yet, if you've witnessed to one, you
probably experienced a problem -- a big problem.
The book, "A Problem of Communication", is a study of the "problem" of
witnessing to the Jehovah's Witness.
What is the problem?
Simply this: Jehovah's Witnesses do not respect the opinions of Christians on
Biblical subjects and refuse to accept any teaching opposed to that of their
leaders. Therefore, witnessing encounters often end up as Bible battles where
Christians and Jehovah's Witnesses fight each other with Scriptures. In this book
the reader can explore the subject of the war between good and evil found in
God's Word, as illustrated by the war between the JW leadership and Christianity.
The issue is the most basic to each of us--spiritual authority!, ie.,the Lordship
of Jesus Christ or Satan. The consensus of this study is that Christians will only
be effective in sharing Christ with religious opposers if we read and accept the
specific Biblicalmandate given to instruct us on witnessing.
We must be careful not to be fools in our witnessing. "Every
prudent man acts with knowledge, but a fool displays folly." (Prov. 13:16) In other words, preparation. based on God's knowledge of witnessing will bring much fruit to those who care about the lost among Jehovah's Witnesses.
Friends, the Lord died so that many may live--all who receive Him into their
hearts. "Therefore," says Jesus, "beseech the Lord of the harvest to send out
workers into His harvest" (Mt. 9:38).
You can go into His harvest without going to a foreign land or even
leaving home. In fact, there are those who will come to you, to your very door,
with Bibles in their hands--who need the Lord. You can "witness" to Jehovah's
Witnesses. There are millions of JW's in the harvest field.
Will you be one of the Lord's workers bringing the truth to them?
Your brother Missionary,
Duane Magnani.
Executive Director of Witness Inc.



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