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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)

Questions about Jehovah's Witnesses

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?
Questions about Latter-day Saints / Mormonism

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?
Questions about spiritual abuse

Spiritual Abuse

  • Shaming
  • Focus on performance
  • Manipulation
  • Idolatry
  • Preoccupation with fault and blame
  • Obscured reality
  • Unbalanced Interralatedness
Questions about Prophecy

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

A Mormon Absurdity?

A Mormon Absurdity?

Mormons believe we all existed before this life as ‘spirit children’ of a heavenly father and one of his goddess wives. In Mormon doctrine they expect to progress on to one of the three levels of heaven, for Mormons that is the highest level, the Celestial Kingdom,...

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Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood

Jehovah’s Witnesses and Blood

Jehovah’s Witnesses are known for their refusal of blood transfusions. But they also will refuse to eat meat that has not been properly bled, or even to use any product, food or otherwise, that contains blood. What they fail to understand is that blood as used in the...

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An Attitude Adjustment

An Attitude Adjustment

When I was in Bible college I heard students talk about coming up with “spiritual gems” to discuss in their class. The professor made that a regular part of her class. It was a practical way of getting students to focus on wisdom and understanding that they would have...

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Michael Jackson and Jehovah’s Witnesses

Michael Jackson and Jehovah’s Witnesses

Paul Blizard has been a longtime friend of Watchman Fellowship. He is a former third generation ex-Jehovah’s Witness who today preaches the gospel as the pastor of one of West Virginia’s largest churches. His comments on the recent death of Michael Jackson are not...

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Scientology Getting Bad Press

Scientology Getting Bad Press

In the early to mid 90’s Watchman Fellowship ventured into the subject of Scientology and caught the attention of that “church.” Reprinted below is an article outlining the resulting legal skirmishes with them. Scientology Threatens Watchman with "OT" Lawsuit In a...

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Deliverance? Ministries, Not The Movie.

Deliverance? Ministries, Not The Movie.

I was asked, “do you believe in deliverance/healing ministry?” My reply was… “I think 90% of deliverance ministries are fear based, and devil-centered. Let me explain. Once we become Christians our focus thereafter is always on Christ. We are not given a spirit of...

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