Witnessing Jehovah

I want to witness Jehovah. God decided to accomplish that by sending me some Jehovah's Witnesses the other day. Now a few years ago before I realized that God loved people I sent a Jehovah's witness away with both of us yelling "BLASPHEMER!!!!" at each other. I vowed to do better next time. So God gave me a year or so to think about it and bling there they were.
Anyway my new approach was this, stop just seeing "a heretical Jehovah's Witness" standing in front of me and start seeing a fellow human being, who Jesus loves a lot, that is actually seeking God. I could love that person and so I didn't immediately start pointing out the errors in their thinking. It went much better. I think they felt heard and like someone cared for them. In truth none of us buys into all of any belief system so it isn't fair to label a person and then act as though we know them inside out because we understand their belief system to some extent.

Now the JWs gave me some booklets which I devoured over the next two days. I was struck by several things.
1. How JW's have departed from historic orthodox christian belief
Reject Trinity
A gospel of rules
Reject personality of the Holy Spirit
Reject eternality and co-equal divinity of Jesus
2. How similar the development & beliefs of the Watchtower Bible & Tract Society are to the development & beliefs of the fundamentalist movement
-Both started with end times bible conferences in the late 1800s
-Both focused on personal piety
-Both were very legalistic
-Both interpreted the Bible very literally
-Both wanted to distinguish themselves from "watered down" denominations
-Both picked some pretty peculiar issues to camp out on
-JWs:
Jesus died on a pole not a cross
Jesus received authority from God to rule in 1914
Only 144,000 people will go to heaven
Trinity is wrong, Jesus was created, Holy Spirit is not a person
No celebrating X-mas, Easter, or birthdays

Another thing that struck me is how the JW's are stuck on old methods, door to door evangelism namely, that no longer fit with the culture. That was developed in a culture where things were sold door to door, a front porch society, neither is now true.

Favorite quote:
"...some 6,000,000 persons today...feel that they properly refer to themselves as Jehovah's Witnesses"
HUH!?! What an odd way to word that.

Oh BTW we are closing on this house first of May and this weekend marks the end of my training at the Police Department.
Simon is almost walking too!