The next time the Jehovah’s Witnesses come to your door you may ask them, “Does your organization teach more than one true God?”
How Many True Gods Are There?
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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
Questions To Ask A Mormon
There was a scene from a Star Trek episode in which Captain Kirk addresses a computer that is determined to exterminate the carbon-based life forms under discussion. Kirk poses a question that the computer cannot resolve. Finally, the computer begins repeating the phrase, “More data please. It does not compute. It does not compute….”
How Jehovah’s Witnesses Are “Saved” – In Their Own Words
The Watchtower has thoroughly corrupted the gospel of salvation by grace through faith in Christ. Because the Bible says a lot about it, they must give lip service to it, but only lip service is given.
Robert J. Lifton’s Eight Criteria of Mind Control
These eight criteria were developed by Dr. Lifton after studying the methods used by the Communists to brainwash our POWs during the Korean War.
My Story
I was born into a Catholic family, the son of a mother from the Caribbean island of Trinidad who was raised Catholic, and a father who was brought up Methodist and converted to Catholicism when he married my mother.
Acts 15:28 – 29 and Blood Transfusions
To a Jehovah’s Witness, this text is an injunction against blood transfusions
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