Jehovah's Witnesses, a question about shunning and door-to-door ministry?

Question

Where it's just different belief that's concerned, why would you have absolutely nothing to do with an ex-Jehovah's Witness, but you feel free to knock on the doors of non-Jehovah's Witnesses on a daily basis? At the very least, shouldn't it be a once only contact at that particular house? If you find out they don't believe...shake the dust from your feet and stay away, just like the shunned ex-JW!

Answer 1

There is a big difference from someone making a commitment to live according to the Bible, then turning their back on it, and someone who has made no such commitment.

The wife of my Brother (he is currently living with his mistress) isn't getting along with him well now. He made a commitment to her and broke it, should she treat ALL guys she knows who aren't married to her like the one who broke his promise to her.

Answer 2

To question your faith as a Jehovah's Witness your questioning god. The beliefs and the practices of this faith are based solely off the bible and nothing else. There is a scripture in the bible to back up all the practices in this faith. People just choose to ignore them. We are commanded by god to go door to door to try and help others come to an accurate knowledge of the bible. Jeremiah 10:23 helps us to appreciate it is god who should be the one to direct our steps not man. So those who question or doubt obviously need to become more familiar with the bible which is the inspired word of god

Answer 3

I was baptized as a Jehovah's Witness when I was fifteen and now that i am thirty-one i left the religion 10yrs ago. I left when no one could answer my questions on faith and God. and now i am considered a disfellowshiped person and all the people I grew up with as my friends and family can have nothing to do with me unless i repent for all my sins against them and then serve my time being shunned but attending their meetings. By the way my big sin was dating and marring a man outside of the religion. If you truly wish them to leave you alone tell them you are not interested and you do not want them to ever return to your house then they will mark down on the map they are given and they should leave you alone.

Answer 4

There is a difference.

The ex-JWs learnt everything there is to learn, and they REJECTED it.

Others may not just recognize the truth, and until they are still groping, we have to help them. People change, busy one day, eager to learn the next. That is why we keep trying.

Answer 5

People and circumstances change all the time.

That is why I pray for you to see the truth.

Some of the strongest, faithful Witnesses I know were opposers.

Why do you try to condemn us for obeying Jesus when he tells us to go to the people with the Good News.

and also to have nothing to do with apostates?

I think it's funny that we are ridicule for obeying Jesus, by professed Christians.


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.Albert Heath, a young doctor from Guyana, was lecturing at a university in Djakarta, Indonesia. There, he began to learn of a different kind of healing. An eye specialist, he could appreciate the “eyesalve” that Jesus spoke about to the Laodiceans, as recorded at Revelation 3:18. Albert decided that it was this “eyesalve” that he wanted to prescribe. In 1964 he and his family moved to Curaçao, and he continued to learn of the program of spiritual healing that Jesus had entrusted to his slave class on earth. (Matt. 24:45) In 1969, Albert and his son were baptized at the same assembly. At his clinic he witnessed extensively to patients and employees alike. Albert was responsible for guiding many to the waters of truth, some of whom are elders today

In Italy, placing the Kingdom News with a nun waiting for a bus led to daily 10- to 15-minute Bible studies at the bus stop. After a month and a half, the nun’s appreciation for Bible truth moved her to leave the convent. She was grateful to learn that by means of God’s Kingdom, the earth will become a place where people will truly love one another, without racial or linguistic barriers. She returned to Guatemala, her home country, where she continued her study with her fleshly sister, who was already one of Jehovah’s Witnesses.

Lithuania, was going over the questions with a baptism candidate from the city of Panevėz̆ys. During the discussion, the candidate, an elderly woman, mentioned that it was difficult for her to put on a mild personality because of the nature of the work that she had done for many years. She had been a jailer in a women’s prison in Panevėz̆ys. The elder’s interest was aroused. He asked if she had worked there during the 1960’s. She said, “Yes,” so he inquired: “Did you know any women who were Jehovah’s Witnesses and who were incarcerated for the truth at that time?” She remembered two or three, including Petrute, the sister who had recently helped her to learn the truth. She also remembered a sister who had been put in jail together with her infant daughter. Well, when the elder heard that, he excitedly told her that she was talking about his mother, who had been arrested for witnessing, and that all her children, except the infant, were taken away by court order and placed with relatives. The elder was three years old at that time. Now he was going over baptism questions with his mother’s former jailer. How happy he was that she had embraced the truth!

Rasim’s wife and sons had been Jehovah’s Witnesses for over ten years, though Rasim himself continued in the Islamic faith. He became aware, however, that interpretation of the Koran differed so much from one mosque to the next that some Muslims would not go to any mosque other than their own. On a visit to Turkey, he went to both a mosque and the meetings of Jehovah’s Witnesses. At the mosque, he heard interpretations of Islam that were different from those taught in Germany. Unity was lacking. But upon returning to Germany, he said: “The same love and the same program can be found in the Kingdom Hall here as in the Kingdom Hall in Turkey. This is the truth.”

Marina, a nurse in a military hospital, had been searching for the meaning of life. When she received the book You Can Live Forever in Paradise on Earth, she read it immediately and soon realized that she had found what she was searching for. After she returned to Russia, she visited others who had studied with Jehovah’s Witnesses in Germany, to encourage them. Soon she began pursuing her purpose in life as a pioneer.

Before becoming one of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Fredy Edwin was a member of the Protestant committee that translated the Bible into the Ponapean language. After he moved to Kosrae, his translating skills helped to make Watch Tower publications available in the Kosraean language.

One of those who received the brochure at the funeral was president of the Catholic School Association. He was said to be one of the best fund-raisers they had ever had. He and his wife studied the entire brochure together, looking up the scriptures in their Catholic Bible. They soon realized that what they were reading was the truth, so the man promptly resigned from the Catholic School Association and refused to do any more fund-raising. In spite of efforts to get him to change his mind, he held firm. He also took a dozen brochures to distribute to other members of the Catholic Church.

I hope you enjoyed these experiences.

And remember the list goes on.

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Answer 6

i am not Jehovah's Witnesses, i am Muslim myself. when they knock on my doors, i treat them with all respect and kindness. because i know from their point of view they are trying to help me or save me (by their believes) so why would i treat someone who wants to help me bad? absolutely i will be kind to them and tell them thanks but i am not interested.

Answer 7

They used to come to the Christian Bookstore I work at everyday. I am not sure if I converted any of them, but I am pretty sure I convinced some of them to question thier faith.
Then they sent these two octegenarians with oxagen tanks and all, and they were getting all up in my face and calling me names and such, I had to kick them out of the store. If they didnt go, I would have called the cops.
They never returned.

The best part for me was that since I worked in a Christian Book Store, I could read books all day about how to convert, deal, and the downfalls of JWs. Did you know, the very name Jehovah is a corruption of Yahweh, as the letter J and i were the same thing in the 1500s and then when they updated the Language in the King James Version in the 1600s they replaces all but two of the word Jehovah to LORD (all caps) because they were not sure how to spell it now that J only had the modern J sound.

Answer 8

I have studied with Jehovah's Witnesses, but I am starting to question their teachings after seeing some of the Q/A's here.