Jehovah's Witnesses: You wouldn't try and make...?

Question

...a black person white (or vice versa); so why try and make a non-believer a believer? Why not just let others be? Maybe they're happy as they are?

Thanks for answering people. Can't choose the best answer.

Answer 1

Perhaps the questioner is unaware that one's skin color has no effect on one's potential for salvation. The same cannot be said for one's belief system.

While Jehovah is not partial to any race or ethnicity, he is quite obviously partial to those who actually do his will.
...(Acts 10:34-35) God is not partial, but in every nation the man that fears him and works righteousness is acceptable to him.


Perhaps the questioner must be reminded that Jehovah's Witnesses are unique for their rejection of paganisms, use of God's personal name, and global preaching by every active adherent. No other religious organization can claim such purity of worship.

These facts about Jehovah's Witnesses are perhaps relevant to this question. The more one compares this Christian religion with others, the more remarkable it is shown to be.

1. Jehovah's Witnesses have no paid clergy. Yet they remain tightly organized with 7 million active Jehovah's Witness preachers (nearly 18 million associate themselves with the religion). Even fulltime preachers and workers at their branch offices are unpaid volunteers.

2. There is no elite class among Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the few 'anointed' among them enjoy no special privileges in their congregations on earth. An anointed person (one of those relative few with a heavenly hope) is not elevated above his fellow congregants in any way, and he may not even qualify for appointment as a simple 'deacon' or elder. There are no titles; EVERYONE is addressed as 'brother' or 'sister'.

3. No person benefits economically from the Christian Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses. Even the 8 to 20 men who serve on their Governing Body receive simply room, board, medical care, and reimbursement for certain personal expenses according to the exact same provision as every other branch volunteer.

4. About a hundred men have served on Jehovah's Witnesses' Governing Body committee during the past 125 years or so. The vast majority of them have spent the vast majority of their adult lives volunteering for their organization's purposes, and the vast majority have died faithfully and near-pennilessly while still under their legal 'vow of poverty'.

5. Amazingly, Jehovah's Witnesses did not splinter as a sect from some other religion. Instead, a truly tiny but sincere group of bible students studied only the Scriptures to determine the will of God. Thus their religion remains absolutely independent of and not carrying the sins of Christendom's history, yet carries the authority of Christ's teachings.

6. Despite the distortions of anti-Witnesses, throughout their modern history Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to claim divine inspiration or infallibility for their teachings. They have pointed to the bible (and not any particular translation) as the only inspired infallible means of knowing God's thoughts. For over 125 years, their teachings have been presented as merely the results of sincere bible research by imperfect but godly humans.

Learn more:
http://watchtower.org/e/jt/index.htm?article=article_07.htm
http://watchtower.org/e/20040601/article_02.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/who.htm
http://jw-media.org/people/statistics.htm

Answer 2

Jehovah's Witnesses prefer not to adopt this attitude, but to listen to Jesus' commandment of making disciples.
The Bible says clearly that true Christians will be preaching the good news about the Kingdom in the last days all over the world.

"Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit." -- Matthew 28:19

"And this good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." -- Matthew 24:14


There are many examples in the Bible and not only of non-believers who became believers. Take the example of Paul. So, the preaching work that Jehovah's Witnesses make is not in vain. Annually thousands of people dedicate their lives to Jehovah and millions of Bible studies are being conducted.

"What! Do you not know that unrighteous persons will not inherit God’s kingdom? Do not be misled. Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men kept for unnatural purposes, nor men who lie with men, nor thieves, nor greedy persons, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit God’s kingdom. AND YET THAT IS WHAT SOME OF YOU WERE. BUT YOU HAVE BEEN WASHED CLEAN, BUT YOU HAVE BEEN SANCTIFIED, BUT YOU HAVE BEEN DECLARED RIGHTEOUS in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ and with the spirit of our God." -- 1 Corinthians 6:9-11


http://www.watchtower.org/e/20040301/article_02.htm
http://www.watchtower.org/e/statistics/worldwide_report.htm

Answer 3

Look at it this way.
If you saw a house on fire and you knew the occupants were in the house, possibly asleep. Would you walk on by and say it has nothing to do with me, they are happy. or would you go and bang on the door as loud as you can to wake them up and thus save their lives?
This is what JWs are doing. They know this system is soon to be destroyed, and that Jehovah God does not want anyone to b e destroyed, so we obey the command to warn people of the imminent danger.
2 Peter 3 v 9 "Jehovah is not slow respecting his promise, as some people consider slowness, but he is patient with you because he does not desire any to be destroyed but desires all to attain to repentance.
Ezekiel 3 v 17 "Son of Man, a watchman is what I have made you to the house of Isreal, and you must hear from my mouth speech and you must warn them from me"

Answer 4

We do not force our message on others, Jesus foretold for our day this work:

"This good news of the kingdom will be preached in all the inhabited earth for a witness to all the nations; and then the end will come." Matt 24:14

Matt 28:19,20 "Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations"

The message that the Witnesses proclaim involves the lives of people; they want to be careful to miss no one. (Zeph 2:2,3)
our calls are motivated by love-first for God, also for their neighbor.

Their are many people searching for the truth, and we are out their searching for them. we want as many as possible to hear the "GOOD NEWS"

Answer 5

Actually we do nothing of the sort. To whom can we change whose heart is set in it's ways.

If you are referring to our preaching work, this is a command directly from Jesus to all of his disciples. Found at Matthew 28:19, 20 - "Go therefore and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded YOU. And, look! I am with YOU all the days until the conclusion of the system of things.”"

Further, I will state another scripture for clarity...
John 6:65 - "So he went on to say: “This is why I have said to YOU, No one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”"

Journey Well...

Answer 6

we are following jesus foot steps.“Do the Work of an Evangelizer”

“Keep your senses in all things, . . . do the work of an evangelizer.”—2 TIMOTHY 4:5.

JEHOVAH’S name and purposes are being declared throughout the earth. This is because God’s dedicated people have taken to heart the commission that Jesus Christ gave his followers when he said: “Go . . . and make disciples of people of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy spirit, teaching them to observe all the things I have commanded you.”—Matthew 28:19, 20.

2 Jesus’ first-century disciples took that commission seriously. For instance, the apostle Paul urged his fellow Christian overseer Timothy: “Do the work of an evangelizer, fully accomplish your ministry.” (2 Timothy 4:5) Today, one way an overseer accomplishes his ministry is by being a zealous Kingdom proclaimer, one who shares regularly in the field ministry. For example, the Congregation Book Study overseer has the rewarding privilege of taking the lead in the preaching work and training others. Paul fulfilled his personal responsibility to declare the good news, and he helped to train others for the ministry.—Acts 20:20; 1 Corinthians 9:16, 17.

Answer 7

We do not try to make unbelievers believers. That is Jehovah's job. Jesus said only those drawn by the Father come to him. (John 6:65)

Our job is just to let them hear the good news of God's Kingdom. What they do with that info is up to them.

It's kind of like those guys who give notices to people that they are required to appear in court (what do you call them?). They just come to you, hand you the summons and say "You have been served".

Their responsibility ends there. Whether you show up in court or not is your problem, not theirs.

Answer 8

Imitate Jehovah: By reaching out to people of different backgrounds, we imitate our impartial God, Jehovah, “whose will is that all sorts of men should be saved and come to an accurate knowledge of truth.”—1 Tim. 2:3, 4.

Answer 9

I am a Christian, one of Jehovah's Witnesses. As a Christian, I recognise that ALL have the freewill/right to choose as they wish. I offer to share my beliefs, my right, they can then say, yes or no, their right.

Answer 10

we were told it is a command to go therefore and baptize people teaching them to observe all the things I taught you.....those were Jesus words to his followers...
We have to go and preach and sway people to God's way of thinking and finalize it with their baptism.

The instructions have not changed since Jesus told us when he was alive.

The Kingdom is prepared for the King Jesus to rule. Once the earth is cleaned up and the dead are brought back and taught God's ways our task might be done.

But until God says Enough! then we must continue.