witnesses

Well, as you may have read on Trevor’s blog…he was visited by a Jehovah’s witness lady one day while i was at the doctor. Anyway…we never really expected to hear from her again but low and behold she came with another lady today to visit me. (how nice). SO i invited them in but they didn’t go past the front doorway and talked a little. She basically just wanted to know if i had read the book she dropped off and what i thought about it. SO i proceeded to tell her that yes i did read some of it…i agreed with some but not all. SHe wanted to know what i didn’t agree with and wouldnt you know that i couldnt remember for the life of me. ANyway…so we talked some…i asked her what she believed and she didnt really seem to want to talk about it. SHe basically said that she was just trying to get people to realize that they could draw closer to God and how to do it. SO i told her I agree. We believe that the only way to get into Heaven and have eternal life is by having a personnal realationship with Jesus Christ and having His Spirit live in you. ANd the only way to draw closer to HIm is by reading His Word. Well she just kinda nodded and didnt’ really say much…I pointed out to her why we believe the way we do and explained about the whole “holiness” thing and very mildly told her about Bro Branham being a prophet. By this time I could tell that she either thought I was weird or that she was just getting scared. I think she realized that we believe Jesus is God (which they dont) becuase of what i said as well as the big picture of Jesus we have on the wall. So there wasnt much else she could say. SHe just kinda ended the conversation, told me to keep her book and keep compairing the scripture referances in there to our Bible and then she left.

I really do wish that I was better about talking to people about that kinda thing. But i had no time to prepare and my brain doesn’t really work well right now as it is so it was tough. But i think i did get my point across.


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2 responses to “witnesses”

  1. Bro Trevor Avatar
    Bro Trevor

    I think you handled it pretty well sweetie…

  2. Anthony P. Bryant Avatar
    Anthony P. Bryant

    I agree with Trevor. You did well, AnnaMay. I have a good friend who is a JW and we enjoy each other’s company, and humor, and interests, and rest in the fact that we are both MORAL people and nothing will be said or done that would be too offensive for the other. We even talk about religion and have actually had very long talks on what we each believe. We are both very set in our Faith and have concluded that we must agree to simply disagree and not let it hurt our friendship. Your willingness to express your beliefs and Faith in Jesus speaks well of you (even in her eyes). She realizes that you are not somebody who doesn’t read the Bible, but that you are grounded in a Faith in God, even though it is not the same as hers. She also realized that you were not going to be swayed to believe as she does, so the conversation was not going to go her way and was therefore over as far as she was concerned. You may not have been able to win her over, but ONLY GOD can really do that. You shared your Faith in Jesus as best you could, and now she knows where you stand, and maybe knows a little more about God than she did… if she was listening.
    God bless you my sister!
    Anthony

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