Can Christians Give a Witness Alongside Jehovah's Witnesses? A brother will tell me tonight at the memorial.

by garyneal 8 Replies latest jw friends

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  garyneal

  Okay, long title but now that I have your attention I can elaborate on what led up to this question and my attending the REJECT Jesus party tonight to find out the answer.

  My wife signed up to auxilliary pioneer, or whatever title you get for the limited time only special of a mere 30 hours of door to door work this month. Therefore, she has been away from home a lot slaving for the slave. Today, I called her on it and said that we could use her more at home helping me take care of things like the kids and the housework. Of course, she thinks it is all okay so I just say well imagine if I got so wrapped up in church activities that you hardly see me anymore, marinade on that for a bit. Her response, "Well I hope you would invite me to come along." I told her that she was always invited and that we did not care if she is a member of the church or not.

  Anyway to make a long story short, she said I could come along door to door witnessing too. I said that I thought I needed to be a Jehovah's Witness to participate and she said that I did not. "So you mean to tell me that I can bring the simple plan of salvation to the people alongside the witnesses distributing their tracts?" I asked. "Yes," she said, "We preach the same thing."

  HUH!?!?!?!

  "Okay," I thought, "let me put this to the test." I decided to call a brother who was originally going to try to prove to me that Jehovah's name should be included in the New Testament. He did not answer, went to voice mail and I left him a lengthy message asking this very question. He calls me back and says, "Come to the memorial tonight and we will discuss it."

  I was considering NOT going to the REJECT Jesus party tonight but I will not miss this for the world.
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  lovelylil

  If that is true, I have never heard of anyone doing that before. So it must be something new, but I doubt it. I think it is just a plan to get you to attend the memorial tonight hoping the spirit of the Jehovah will speak to you. You know how JWs are, they will say anything just to have a chance to "witness" to you. Its a scam, go to your regularly scheduled meeting. Peace, Lilly
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  pirata

  very interesting. Let us know how it goes!
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  garyneal

  *sigh*

  I missed church today because I was feeling a bit under the weather. A little sickness from the littlest one. Am feeling better now.

  We don't have Sunday night church services so I won't be missing anything there.
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  sherah

  This should be funny. She's going to have to eat crow because according to WT policy, you can't go out with her preaching unless you are an approved publisher. You may be able to go out as an observer but you def can't preach, LOL

  Keep us posted with the details.
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  cantleave

  I await what answer the elder gives with anticipation. We all know that the real answer is you can not mix false and true religion. I wonder if we'll hear a bit of "theocratic warfare".
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  garyneal

  I'll be taking notes.
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  garyneal

  Sorry for the slow update guys but truth is, it was indeed a scam. He just wanted me to attend the memorial.

  I passed by him once in the hallway before the meh-morial and all he said was hi. After the meh-morial, everyone was in a rush to get out of there that I did not get to talk to him about it.

  My wife has since then changed her story and is now saying that she did not really say I could've witnessed with them unless I study and become a witness. I don't think she really said that before but I will give her the benefit of the doubt. No doubt she changed her story like this due to the embarrassment this would've caused her. She went and made sure this brother knew that she did NOT say anything of the kind to me. I sense backpedalling.

  I called him once since then and he was too busy to talk. He called me another time late at night and I was not in the mood to talk to him then. I may talk to him, I may not. Seems like a big waste of time now.
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  tec

  Don't be frustrated, Gary. They're the ones avoiding you because they KNOW they don't have the answers to what you're asking... or at least they know their answers are lacking something. So they would rather avoid thinking about it too, I think.

  Tammy