The Watchtower Society leaders like to have it both ways. When they want Jehovah’s Witnesses to believe them without question and obey instantly, they claim to be the only trustworthy spokesman for God.
Presumptuous Prophets
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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
Define Your Terms
When a Christian talks about his faith with a Mormon or Jehovah’s Witness it is very important to define one’s terms. Otherwise it will be quite possible for the Christian to conclude that a Mormon or a Witness believes a lot of the same things we believe.
Jehovah’s Witnesses and the Dating Game
The Watchtower Society has for its entire history been preoccupied with prophecy and Armageddon. That is the result of the attraction to end time scenarios by the founder, Charles Taze Russell.
The Holy Spirit is Jehovah
The scriptures and Trinitarian doctrine recognizes the divine equality of the Holy Spirit with the Father and Son.
The Gospel in Genesis 5
Among the “boring” parts of the Bible are the genealogies. Adam begat, etc., etc… We tend to read through them quickly to get to the stories, the action scenes.
Commenting on the Text – 1 John 5:7
The New Testament from 26 Translations says in a footnote about this verse, “The words between ‘bear record’ (verse 7) and ‘the spirit’ (verse 8) are now recognized as not adequately supported by original manuscripts.”
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