Have you ever been at home, heard the knock on the door, and found a pair of nice looking people wanting to give you a free magazine? Where the magazine is titled Awake! or Watchtower? I have. These people are Jehovah’s Witnesses, and the message they have to share is a dangerous perversion of Christianity.
Have you passed a Kingdom Hall building and wondered what occurred inside? I have.
Perhaps you will feel the burden to pray for these decent but disillusioned people. Perhaps next time they come knocking at your door, you will have a message for them.
The Jehovah’s Witnesses got their start in 1884, when Charles Russell formed Zion’s Watch Tower Tract Society, though their true roots sprang up fourteen years earlier from a Bible Study Russell organized in Allegheny, Pennsylvania.
The JW’s publish two semi-monthly magazines as their primary publications. Awake! targets mostly non-JW’s and focuses on non-Biblical topics such as current events and news stories. The Watchtower magazine is toted as the “chief means of instructing members in doctrine and practice”