Many of the prime victims of cults have a religious background.
Cult Proofing Your Church Family
read more
Christian discernment and apologetics ministry with a mission to educate, equip, and evangelize
Watchman Fellowship
WHAT WE DO
Watchman Fellowship is an independent Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age.
WHO WE SERVE
We serve the Christian and secular community as a resource for education, counseling, and non-coercive intervention and evangelism training.
As Christians, we believe that “we are our brother’s keeper.” Like the watchman on the wall (Ezekiel 3:17), we have the responsibility to sound a warning against the deception and destructive spiritual abuse practiced by counterfeit groups. In sounding such warning Watchman Fellowship also has a principled commitment to accuracy.
SINCE 1979
Our mission is to fill a crucial need in the Church as a Christian counter-cult* and watchdog ministry. We have three primary goals: to educate the community, to equip the church, and to evangelize the cults.
WHO WE ARE
The ministry was founded by David Henke in Columbus, Georgia in 1979. He remains Chairman of the Board and manages the Georgia office. Watchman Fellowship’s home office is in Texas and we also have an office in Pennsylvania.
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Often confused with the Watchtower Society title used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses, we are in no way affiliated with them. Our name is taken from the Old Testament book of the Bible, Ezekiel.
“Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a message from My mouth, and give them warning from Me.” (Ezekiel 33:7)
Jehovah's Witnesses
- Is the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ translation of the Bible accurate and unbiased?
- Are its predictions for the future unfailing?
- Is it true that the Society is closed to occult influences?
- Is the scholarship of its literature trustworthy?
- Is the Society’s teaching on salvation biblical?
Latter-day Saints / Mormonism
- How did Mormonism originate? Who was Joseph Smith?
- Is it a Christian religion? What does it teach about God?
- What is the Mormon doctrine regarding salvation? Life after death?
- Who do they believe Jesus Christ was…is?
- What is the Book of Mormon? The Pearl of Great Price? Doctrine and Covenants?
Spiritual Abuse
- Shaming
- Focus on performance
- Manipulation
- Idolatry
- Preoccupation with fault and blame
- Obscured reality
- Unbalanced Interralatedness
Prophecy
Concerning prophecy and religious deception, the Bible warns: “Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world” (1 John 4:1).
- Open-dated
- Self-fulfilling
- Conditional
- Close-dated & Unconditional
Recent Posts & Articles
Five Reasons Why I Cannot Be A Mormon
One might choose to join the Mormon church because some Mormons live good, clean, moral lives. However, so do many Methodists, Baptists, Presbyterians and others…
Why The Cults Are Growing
Could it be that the cults are providing something vital to human beings that Christianity cannot provide?
Jehovah’s Witnesses: Working Out Their Salvation
For Jehovah’s Witnesses, salvation requires a complicated combination of right belief and right action.
Salvation, Mormon Style! Or, The Law of Eternal Progression
We must understand what they mean when Mormons talk of being saved. At the same time we must understand what Christians mean by salvation. When we compare the two, we will see vast differences.
The Trinity in Nature
The heavens certainly declare the glory of God as both Paul and the Psalmist say (19:1), but what else can we learn about God through His creation?
RESOURCE CATALOG OF BOOKS, DVD’S, & TRAINING MANUALS
