The name "Jehovah" doesn't appear to be promoted very much (if at all!) as JW's are led to believe.
Isaiah
62:2 - "... be called by a new name, [Christians] which the very mouth of
Jehovah will designate."
Acts 11:26 - "the disciples were
by divine providence called Christians."
Matthew 10:18 - ".....for
my
sake, for a
witness
to them and the nations.
Mark
13:9 - "......before governors and kings for my
sake, for a witness
to them."
Luke
24: 47,48 - "....and on the basis of his [Jesus'] name....You
are to be witnesses....."
John
1:15 - "John bore witness about him..." [JESUS]
John
5:37 - "the
Father
who sent me has himself borne witness about
me."
John
8:18 - "the
Father
who sent me bears witness about me."
John
15:26,27 - "the spirit
will bear witness about me;
and YOU
in turn,
are to bear witness."
Acts 1:8 - "You will be witnesses of
me...."
Acts
4:17,18 - ...upon the basis of this (Jesus') name .... upon the basis
of the name of Jesus.
Acts 10:39 - "And we are witnesses
of all the things he [Jesus] did..."
Acts
10:43 - "To him [Jesus] all
the prophets
bear witness....."
Acts 13:31 -
"who are now his
(Jesus') witnesses to the people.
Acts
22:15 - "because you are to be a
witness
for
him
[Jesus] to all men......"
Acts
22:20 - "......the blood of Stephen your
[Jesus'] witness
was being spilled..."
Acts
23:11 - "..... a thorough witness
on the things about me
in Jerusalem..."
Acts
26:16 -"I [Jesus]..choose you as an attendant and a
witness..respecting
me"
Romans 8:16 - "The spirit
itself bears witness with our spirit..."
1
Corinthians 1:6 - "even as the witness
about the
Christ..........."
1
Timothy. 2:6 - "......what
is to be witnessed
to at its own particular times."
2
Timothy 1:8 - "............of the witness
about our Lord.. [Christ]"
1
John 5:9 - "the witness God
gives...the fact that he has borne witness concerning
his Son."
Revelation
1:9 - "....for speaking about God and bearing
witness to Jesus."
Revelation
12:17 - ".......and have the work of bearing
witness to Jesus."
Revelation
17:6 - "........and with the blood of the
witnesses of Jesus."
Revelation
19:10 -".....the work of witnessing
to Jesus....
bearing
witness to Jesus."
Revelation
20:4 - "............ for
the witness they bore to Jesus."
1
Corinthians 1:2 - "....with all who....are calling upon the name
of our Lord, Jesus Christ...."
1 Peter 4:14,16 - "If
YOU are being reproached for the name of Christ, YOU are happy....
But if anyone suffers as a
Christian, let him not feel shame......but let him keep on glorifying
God in this [Jesus'] name."
John 3:18 - "....he has not exercised faith in
the name of the only-begotten Son of God"
Acts
2:38 - "......be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ...."
Acts 3:6 -
"In the name of Jesus Christ the Naz·a·rene´, walk!"
Acts 4:10 -
".......in the name of Jesus Christ the Naz·a·rene......"
Acts 8:16 -
".......been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus."
Acts 9:27 - ".....and
how in Damascus he had spoken boldly in the name of Jesus."
Acts 10:48 - "With that he commanded them to be
baptized in the name of Jesus Christ."
Acts 16:18 -
"“I order you in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her.”
Acts
19:5 - "On hearing this, they got baptized in the name of the
Lord Jesus."
For
whose name were Christians to witness? (see 29 scriptures above)
For
whose name would Christians be hated? (Matt. 10:22)
By
whose name were people healed? (Acts 3:6; Acts 4:10)
By
whose name were demons expelled? (Luke 10:17; Acts 16:18)
By
whose name would people receive Holy Spirit? (John 14:26)
In
whose name would people pray to God? (John 15:16)
By
whose name would people be named? (Isa. 62:2; Acts 11:26)
By
whose name would people be reconciled to God? (Rom. 5:10; 2 Cor.
5:18)
By
whose name would people be forgiven their sins? (Matt. 26:28; Acts
2:38; Eph. 1:7)
In
whose name would people be judged? (John 5:27)
By
whose name would people be resurrected (John 5:28)
In
whose name would people be baptized? (Acts 2:38, 8:16, 10:48, 19:5,
22:16)
In
whose name were people to put faith? (John 2:23)
In
whose name was Saul/Paul commissioned to preach? (Acts 9:14-16)
For whose
name would Christians be reproached? (1 Peter 4:14)
In whose name
were Christians to gather together? (Matt. 18:20)
For whose name
would Christians make sacrifices? (Matt. 19:29)
For whose name would
Christians be persecuted and killed? (Luke 21:12,16,17)
In whose name will every knee in
heaven and on earth bend? (Philippians 2:10)
In whose name would people be declared righteous?
(1 Cor. 6:11)
By
means of whose name would Christians offer a sacrifice of praise?
(Hebrews 13:15)
According
to the Bible,
Christ's
name was to be the focus for Christians, not “Jehovah.”
It is
curious as well as noteworthy, that the the name 'Jehovah's
Witnesses' was changed by the WTBTS when setting up a subsidiary
organization in Europe in 2001.
The new designation was "The European Association of
Jehovah's Christian
Witnesses".
The EAJCW is registered as an NGO with
the OSCE - a European political/military organization which is
subject to the U.N. - in order to attend and participate/lobby in its
seminars. http://www.osce.org/home/71616
