Christian discernment and apologetics ministry with a mission to educate, equip, and evangelize
Watchman Fellowship
Watchman Fellowship is an independent Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age.
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.
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.
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)
Recent Posts & Articles
Almost every parent has said it. Their child sees a particular toy or candy that they must have. They then begin to ask, to beg, to pitch a tantrum, to do whatever it takes to get the desire of their heart. The shrill cries of “I want it! I want it!” seem incessant.
Jason, a Seventh-day Adventist, emailed these comments regarding our Watchman Profile on Seventh-day Adventism…
Consequently the other disciples would say to him: ‘We have seen the Lord!’ But he said to them: ‘Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails and stick my finger into the print of the nails and stick my hand into his side, I will certainly not believe.’
Where do we begin in testing the “story of Joseph Smith,” or how do we “try the spirits” (I John 4:1) behind “Mormonism, as it is called?”
The Mormon Church’s First Article of Faith says, “We believe in God the Eternal Father, and in His Son Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.” On the basis of this one Article we find an “apparently” orthodox view of the Godhead. But, the Mormons use the vocabulary of orthodox Christianity while assigning meanings of their own.
Solomon said, “there is no new thing under the Sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9). If we apply that truth to modern-day Cults and ‘isms’ then we should be able to find historical precedents for the theologies they espouse.
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