REACHING JWS REACHING JWS Your Experience THINGS TO

REACHING J/W’S

REACHING J/W’S Your Experience

THINGS TO REMEMBER ➤ Win them, not Beat them! ➤ Spiritual Battle ➤ You don’t need all the answers ➤ We can follow the evidence, they cannot ➤ Know what you believe ➤ How to read and interpret the Bible ➤ Methodology ➤ Doing theology, sowing doubt.

HOW TO READ AND INTERPRET THE BIBLE “ For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no further reward, and even their name is forgotten. Ecclesiastes 9: 5

HOW TO READ AND INTERPRET THE BIBLE “ Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, … 6 before the silver cord is snapped, or the golden bowl is broken, or the pitcher is shattered at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern, 7 and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it. Ecclesiastes 12: 1, 6 -7

METHODOLOGY ➤ Prepare Spiritually ➤ Learn ➤ Be Aware ➤ Build and Broaden ➤ Sowing Doubt ➤ Testimony ➤ Give them a Solid Foundation

ARGUMENTS

TEN TRINITY TEXTS

TEN TRINITY TEXTS ➤ John 1: 1 ➤ John 20: 28 ➤ Titus 2: 13 ➤ Colossians 2: 9 ➤ Matthew 28: 19 ➤ Hebrews 1: 5 -9 ➤ Isaiah 9: 6 ➤ John 8: 58 ➤ Philippians 2: 6 ➤ Colossians 1: 15

JESUS IS JEHOVAH Zechariah 2: 8 -12

JESUS IS JEHOVAH ➤ Matthew 21: 16 / Psalm 8: 1&2 ➤ Isaiah 43: 10 / Acts 1: 8 ➤ Isaiah 44: 24, 45: 12 / John 1: 3, Colossians 1: 16

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON ➤ Filled with the Holy Spirit ➤ Baptised with the Spirit ➤ Anointed, fell upon, gift poured out “Is it reasonable that a person would be “filled” with another person? ” “John could hardly have been referring to the holy spirit as a person when he spoke of baptizing people with it. ” “Here again, the terms used are inconsistent with the idea of the holy spirit being a person. ” https: //www. jw. org/en/publications/magazines/g 200607/Is-the-Holy-Spirit-a-Person/#? insight[search_id]=6506 e 335 -f 081 -47 c 8 -93 a 7 -dd 268 c 233 f 9 d&insight[search_result_index]=0

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A PERSON - NOT A FORCE ➤ Ephesians 4: 30 ➤ 1 Corinthians 12: 4, 11 ➤ Acts 5: 3, 4 ➤ Acts 13: 2, 4 ➤ 1 Corinthians 2: 10, 13; John 16: 12 -15 ➤ Romans 8: 2 ➤ Romans 8: 16