Hi,
I'm a witness, not for a long time though. Since I've been one, you can't convince nor can you persuade. Those don't work. I once found something in one of our books & showed it to a sister...she says...I was questioning God...I said, NO, I'm questioning man...the paragraph said one thing & the scripture said something else completely...it was like her brain short circuited...but I planted a seed, because she told me that now she is going to research because I have her curious...Now, of course she hasn't gotten back to me as of yet...but even a blind man could see what I pointed out.
Sometimes they like to talk about Christiandom....I tell them, I came from there & no they don't talk about JW's because that is bad business. That's like Walmart saying don't shop at K-Mart...So we shouldn't at the hall talk about other religions, because they don't talk about us, well not from the pulpit, at least.....plus there may be a person in the audience that is from another religion & if we want to bring them in, it's not good to talk about another religion....They could go back & say, you know them witnesses talk about blah blah blah....We don't want nobody to talk about us so we shouldn't either, & if we do, then we stooped to their level...
Even my comments I place little seeds that may not be in the literature, but you can't deny, I made a good point...I like the story of David where after he slept with Bathseba and had her hubby killed, & his friend told him the story & David got angry about the man in the story, but his friend told it, it was him...that's kind of how I get them to think a very little bit...I haven't made any leaps and bounds with their thinking, but sometimes you have to appeal to folks fair play...But I do make a dent...
Again, sometimes a little story, that is talking about them but they don't know it...but it does make them take a second look....
I have one for them...but not sure how to swing this...In revelations, it talks about Jesus being on the white horse with an arrow but no bow, well, that's not Jesus...if one reads it, Jesus cannot ride out, then come back & read the scroll....then ride out again, then open another scroll...that's not Jesus...Jesus uses a sword, not an arrow & the arrow hasn't a bow...so he can't conquer anything....I'm working on it...
It's not about convincing them or persuading them...it's about just talking and mentioning things as a matter of factly....So far I've not been called into the back room as of yet...
I've also learned to leave them to their thoughts...because if this whole bible thing is true...& Jehovah/Jesus is going to Judge, we all will have to answer for ourselves...God will ask us who did we listen to...GB's of him...I don't think he'll be angry if some stayed witnesses but he would also like to know...well if you stayed, did you swallow all the kool-aide...& that's the deal breaker...you can say, yes I stayed but I believed the bible more than them. & that just might be the ticket to paradise, heaven or wherever, no one knows, because no one has come back to tell us...
Plant little seeds, don't argue with them...always be humble...use a lot of grease when you talk to them...they won't know what hit them...
But at the end of the day....JW's have to be JW's that's their only claim to fame...other than that, they feel worthless, being a JW gives them their worth....& most JW's have to be validated...think about it...You can comment one word & the brothers say, Good, or very nice...& that blows up most witnesses skirts...maybe the majority of them were never validated in their families....it seems most of them have that MO...Birds of a feather flock together...maybe some witnesses have a certain personality that can't be cured....in this world if we can't cure it we'll colonize it...( isn't that what they did to the lepers)....
You can't change folks that don't think they need to be changed or want to be changed.
That's my 2 cents, not much I know...but there it is...
Tor