I have been studying now for 3 years with regular Sunday and Tuesday meetings and personal home Bible study.
I accept that the organisation is the true face of christianity and true worship of Jehovah God. I accept that the Bible is the source of God inspired knowledge to everlasting life. And I accept that Jehovah's Witnesses are God's visible organisation on earth and understand the importance of the preaching work just as Jesus and the disciples accomplished though I have yet to go on the ministry myself. How did you know when you were ready for baptism and to become a servant of Jehovah? What advice could you give me and how did it feel for you when you were baptised?
2006-09-01 02:56:49 · 10 answers · asked by Spadesboffin 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Please I am not interested in anti JW replies as my question is aimed at Witnesses to answer, it is their advice I am seeking.
2006-09-01 03:09:13 · update #1
Getting baptized as a Jehovah's Witness is certainly *NOT* an emotional decision; you cannot expect a revelation or epiphany. Instead it should be the natural result of learning bible truth; it is the sincere desire to dedicate oneself to do God's Will; it is the request made to God for a clean conscience.
If you're not ready, then you shouldn't get baptized just yet. In any event, before you can qualify for baptism, you must be regularly participating in the formal preaching work with the congregation. Once you have done that for some weeks or months, you may feel a greater interest in dedicating yourself to do God's work.
Learn more:
http://www.watchtower.org/library/rq/article_16.htm
2006-09-01 08:41:56 · answer #1 · answered by achtung_heiss 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Mark 3:2 So they were watching him closely to see if he would.......(to test him)....and accuse him. says Jehovah..
Mark 12:13 Next they sent forth to him some of the Pharisees and of the party followers of Herod, to catch him (her) in his speech.
Malachi 3:2-4 And who will be putting up with the day of his (Jesus) coming,and who will be the one standing when he appears?For he will be like the fire of a refiner and like the lye of laundrymen...And the gift offering of Judah and of Jerusalem will actually be gratifying to Jehovah, as in the says of long ago and as in the years of antiquity.
Jeremiah 50:28 There is the sound of those fleeing and those escaping from the land of Babylon to tell out in Zion the vengeance of Jehovah our God, the vengeance for his temple.
When I got baptized the heater did not work, it was very cold water....12/74...
Cowards will not inherit the Kingdom, and that is one thing I am not. That is why the preaching/teaching ministry is my favorite thing to do. Revelation 21:8.
You know you are ready for baptism when there is nothing else you want more, than to please Jehovah.
Busted...
2006-09-01 03:30:50 · answer #2 · answered by tina 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
whilst we are warned concerning to the hazards of chat rooms, I even have in no way heard something approximately Yahoo solutions or something like that. AND the warning isn't that we would be disfellowshipped if we use chatrooms yet extremely that we could desire to be harmed in some way via people who have not got something greater clever to do than carry around and seek for victims (as with pedifiles). the two your mom has the incorrect effect or I do. I even have purely been a Witness for 14 years.
2016-10-01 04:18:55 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I am an athiest..
My wife was baptized shortly after our marriage and our 3 sons were raised in the truth...
I can honestly say that Jehovah's witnesses are the closest to what Christians should be according to the bible and that children raised as witnesses have far fewer problems and grow to be better adults than non-witnesses...
My wife says she was "elated" after her baptism and her relationship with God was stronger & closer...
2006-09-01 03:06:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 5⤊ 0⤋
You should ask that question to the brother or sister you're studying with. Then the two of you should go the the elders and discuss what is holding you back.
My day of baptism was the most wonderful day of my life.
2006-09-01 04:41:41 · answer #5 · answered by TeeM 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
I could agree with some of your your statements, except that I feel the Jehovah's Witnesses are a damn public nuisance when they come unbidden, knocking on my door and disrupting my life and work. It is presumptuous of them to try to tell me what religion I should follow after I have examined the question myself for a lifetime. It is abhorrent that they won't take no for an answer.
I have put up a sign asking that my privacy be respected. I regret that I don't live in one of our Southern states, where I could open up on them with a shotgun.
Sorry to rain on your parade, but that's how most of you are perceived-a hybrid between a clown and a lunatic.
2006-09-01 03:04:06 · answer #6 · answered by Hermit 4 · 0⤊ 6⤋
Getter Done!
2006-09-01 03:00:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Jesus didnt teach that Jehovah's witnesses was the one and only true religion. Before you do this please search other non denmonations.
2006-09-01 03:02:57 · answer #8 · answered by chicksinthesky 1 · 1⤊ 4⤋
JEHOVA isn't even a legit name of christ! would you want to be a part of a religion practicing on just an invented doctrine!?! all religion teches how good god is,but not all understnd it!
2006-09-01 03:06:47 · answer #9 · answered by xpac 2 · 1⤊ 6⤋
Yes. Please go down to about the middle of this page...
http://planttel.net/~meharris1/mikescorner.html
2006-09-01 03:02:53 · answer #10 · answered by green93lx 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋