Approaching Jehovah's Witnesses in Love: How to Witness Effectively Without Arguing [Paperback]

Wilbur Lingle (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2004

This book is the result of missionary Wilbur Lingle's long experimentation with ways to witness to Jehovah's Witnesses. He counsels that efforts must be undertaken in love and that argument is to be avoided if positive results are desired.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 271 pages
• Publisher: Christian Literature Crusade (July 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0875087787
• ISBN-13: 978-0875087788
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 4.7 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #854,675 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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38 of 41 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An expert who writes from experience, February 23, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Approaching Jehovah's Witnesses in Love: How to Witness Effectively Without Arguing (Paperback)

Rev. Lingle has walked his talk, with years of experience in witnessing to JW's. What's more, if you call him, he is eager to help you personally with any questions you have in witnessing to your loved ones involved with the Watchtower Society. His approach to witnessing using a series of questions based on John 5:24 is the most useful, concise one I've ever seen. (Buy the book and see p. 221).

This book is practical, biblical, and goal-oriented. Lingle is honest about what witnessing methods to JW's work and which ones don't work. His basic philosophy is to place doubts in the JW's mind about the infallibility of the Watchtower Society. He relays documentation from their own literature of the changes the WTS has made over the years in its beliefs and practices.

His list of sample questions to breach a JW's confidence in the Watchtower Society is excellent. However, the questions would probably have to be memorized or written out in longhand, since a JW tends to flee at the sight of any "anti-JW" literature.

This book would be an excellent place to start your with your response to the Jehovah's Witnesses at your door or in your life.

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Best Approach, January 14, 2002

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Rich Wharton (Tampa, FL) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Approaching Jehovah's Witnesses in Love: How to Witness Effectively Without Arguing (Paperback)

This book has been a wonderful tool for witnessing to the Witnesses. It is thorough, concise, and straight to the point, without being offensive. Rev. Lingle has found that explaining your view does not work, and it doesn't. This book lets the Witness teach YOU, making that person feel important. It also shows that you can question a religious organization w/o questioning or attacking the faith of the individual. Excellent! would recommend it .

34 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Approaching Jehovah's Witnesses in Love, May 17, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Approaching Jehovah's Witnesses in Love: How to Witness Effectively Without Arguing (Paperback)

This book asks some very thought provoking questions. The purpose of this is to get Jehovah's Witnesses to think for themselves. The biggest problem with the members of this organization is that although they ask others to be open minded in their witnessing effort, they are very closed minded themselves and will not even consider looking at something written by outsiders relating to the Bible. In taking this approach, they are not taking their own advise, even though it is scriptural. "Test all things, hold fast to what is good" (1 Thess. 5:21)This publication does not attempt to demean members of this group, but to help them think on their own. The thought provoking questions given here should help the ones who are honest hearted to see that the points being made are logical and scriptural.