| .:WITNESSES FOR JESUS FAQ (FREQUENTLY
ASKED QUESTIONS)
1. Can I print and distribute copies of your material without
infringing on copyright laws?
2. How can I get a copy of the free information packet
you offer?
3. Can I have the free information packet sent to a Christian
friend?
4. How can I have information sent anonymously to my Jehovah’s
Witness and Mormon friends?
5. How can I sign-up for your free newsletter?
6. How can I contact this ministry?
7. Who are You? Are you a religion? Are you affiliated with a specific church?
8. Are you a bunch of Jehovah's Witness "apostates" who don't believe Bible Teachings? (www.4jehovah.org)
9. Are you "anti-Mormons" who hate the LDS Church? (www.4mormon.org)
10. I am a former Jehovah's Witness or Mormon who is wanting to talk with someone who has left. Can you help?
11. Do you have literature available in languages other
than English?
12. How can I have someone from Witnesses for Jesus speak
at my church congregation or Bible study group?
13. How can I start a ministry to Jehovah's Witnesses and
Mormons in my area?
14. How can I help Witnesses for Jesus?
15. Why do you say that Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses
are not Christians? Don't they believe in Jesus?
16. Is It Loving To Tear Down Someone Else’s Beliefs? - An Open Letter To Those Who Oppose Our Ministry
17. Why do you target only Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter-day
Saints (Mormons)? Do you have information on other religions
besides them?
18. Why do you use other translations in addition to the Authorized
1611 King James Bible?
19. Where do I go on your site to download the free Teacher's
Guide and Student Handouts for your training DVDs?
20. I've
heard skeptics say there are no eyewitness of Jesus.
Is this true?
21. Why do you judge others when Jesus said "Judge not"? Why do you attack other religions?
22. Do you have a discussion board for Jehovah's Witness and Mormons to publicly debate your Christian beliefs?
23. How is the ministry of Witnesses for Jesus financed?
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1.
Can I print and distribute copies of your material without
infringing on copyright laws?
Copyright Statement:
From our Witnesses for Jesus, Inc website,
you may print materials for personal use and to share
with others in your local, and/or worldwide ministry
as long as you give them away and do
not charge for them. In this case, free means
free. No audio, PDF or text file may be bundled with
anything sold, nor may you charge for audio or paper
copies, shipping or handling, etc. These files are freely
provided for your personal study and use in witnessing
to Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons, as well as
in preparation of sermons, Sunday school classes, small
group Bible studies, and/or other non-commercial study.
De-compilation and/or redistribution
of "partial" printed and/or audio
files is strictly prohibited, so as
to avoid statements being taken out of context.
Re-distribution Policy:
This material is shared in the form of digital media
and written transcript with the name and address of
Witnesses for Jesus displayed. It may not be reprinted
for commercial publication; however, it may
be duplicated for ministry distribution as
long as it is given away and you include
the name and address of Witnesses for Jesus
on all derivative works. De-compilation and/or redistribution
of "partial" media and/or written transcript
files is strictly prohibited, so as to avoid statements
being taken out of context.
Requests for Permission to "Repost Audio
or Written Transcript Files on Other Sites:"
We have had numerous requests from users to repost our
written transcript and media files on their own websites,
discussion boards, etc. We appreciate your vote of confidence
in the content provided by Witnesses for Jesus, and
we are honored to serve all the people using the website
each day. However, with all the websites in the world
being only one simple click away from our site, under no circumstances do we grant permission for
these materials to be reposted on other websites.
However, you are welcome to place a link
on your website(s) or discussion board(s) to any content
shared on our Witnesses for Jesus, Inc website.
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2.
How can I get a copy of the free information packet
you offer?
The free information contained in our packet is available
online at our website. Click the “Jehovah’s
Witness” and/or “Mormon”
tab and select the Online Material link. You are free
to print this material for your personal and/or ministry
use. See our copyright statement.
If you are unable to print the material from our site,
you may request our free packet by emailing or calling us or by requesting the packet by mail at: Witnesses
for Jesus, Inc., PO Box 50911, Colorado Springs, CO
80949. NOTE: You must include
your name, mailing address
and phone number and/or email
on all requests.
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3.
Can I have the free information packet sent to a Christian
friend?
We accept requests from individuals who desire for
us to mail our free information packet to others. However,
we limit this free offer to no more
than two requests per person who contacts
us. In other words, if you request a packet for yourself,
you can also request one free packet for your friend,
but beyond this, on all additional requests, please
mail $5.00 per request to: Witnesses
for Jesus, Inc., PO Box 50911, Colorado Springs, CO
80949. (Make check or money order payable to
Witnesses for Jesus – no credit cards or cash
please.) When making requests on behalf of friends,
you must also include your name,
phone number, and/or email
address for any questions that arise.
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4.
How can I have information sent anonymously to my Jehovah’s
Witness and Mormon friends?
We would be happy to mail our postcard tracts written
for Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons to your friends
and relatives. These cards are sent anonymously. We
will not reveal your name or address to the people to
whom you are having us mail the information. To request an anonymous mailing, fill-out
our JW/LDS Postcard Mailing
Form and mail it to us along with a check
for $1.00 per postcard made payable to: Witnesses
for Jesus, Inc., PO Box 50911, Colorado Springs, CO
80949 USA. You can preview our cards to decide which postcard you want us to send at the following links:
If you would like to have additional resources (books, CDs, documentation packets) from
our Resource Listing Order
Form to be included in your anonymous mailing to your Jehovah's Witness
and/or Mormon friends, please note the name of the material
clearly on your filled-out JW/LDS
Mailing Request Form and add the additional suggested
amount of the item as specified in our Resource Listing
to the $1.00 postcard mailing amount you enclose when you send your order.
Note: If the total amount of the value of the additional
item(s) you request exceed $2.00, please reference the
shipping chart in our Order Form and adjust the additional
amount you send accordingly. Thanks!
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9. Are you "anti-Mormon"?
Coming soon!
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10. I am a former Jehovah's
Witness or Mormon who is looking for someone to help
me deal with my experience. Is there anyone you can
refer me to?
If you're a Jehovah's Witness or Latter-day Saint
who is thinking about leaving or has already left your
religion, you are not alone.
Our email ministry team volunteers are former Jehovah's
Witnesses and Mormons who understand what you are going
through and are committed to lending spiritual and emotional
support as you work through the perplexing questions
of life after your experience in these religions.
If you're looking for a support group that is more
one-on-one and private than on-line chat rooms available
on the internet, then our email support network is for
you! We are devoted to God the Father and His Son Jesus
Christ. We do not look to an earthly, man-made organization
for spiritual truth and guidance but rest completely
in the authority of God's Word, the Bible, and the guidance
of His Holy Spirit.
If you have questions about God, the Bible, Christian
churches, religion in general, or just need someone
who understands what you're going through, please CLICK
HERE to meet our Jehovah's Witness and LDS team
volunteers.
We also encourage you to see our Welcome ex-Jehovah's Witness help page for resources on our website that may assist you with questions you may have.
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11.
Do you have literature available in languages other
than English?
We have had several requests for material in foreign
languages. Many of our Jehovah's Witness and Mormon
brochures have been translated into the Spanish Language,
and a few of our tracts on Jehovah's Witnesses have
been translated into the Russian Language, but we have
nothing else in any other language. To access our foreign
language materials, click on the Spanish Material on JWs or Spanish Material on LDS menu links at the top of the webpage or click the quick link to the Spanish edition next to the English title on each webpage. If you or someone
you know would be interested in helping us translate
our materials into other languages (especially the Portuguese,
German, French, Japanese and Chinese languages), please contact us in English.
We also need people who have the software and
ability to type their translation in the foreign language
into MicroSoft Word documents that we can format back
into the original tracts, brochure style of the English
documents.
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12. How can I have someone from Witnesses
for Jesus speak at my church congregation or Bible study
group?
Christy Darlington, the founder and
President of Witnesses for Jesus, Inc., has developed
a series of seminars on Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons
that we offer to churches and home groups. These seminars
are available in DVD format or on audio MP3 CDs that
contain Microsoft PowerPoint slides and handouts. They
are segmented into sections that can be presented in
Church home groups and Sunday School Classes.
Although Christy Darlington is no longer
available to travel out of state to present her seminars
at your church or home Bible Study group, if your group
is located in the Colorado Springs area, we can make
arrangements to have a representative from Witnesses
for Jesus, Inc (often a former Jehovah's Witness or
former Mormon) share with your group on a love offering
basis.
Click on the following seminar links
below to bring up details of each seminar we have available:
 DVD
Seminar: Answering Questions Your Jehovah's Witness
Friends Ask
DVD Seminar:
Answering Questions Your Mormon Friends Ask
Audio MP3
Seminar: Understanding Jehovah's Witnesses
Audio MP3
Seminar: Understanding Mormonism
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13.
How Can I start a ministry to Jehovah's Witnesses and
Mormons in my area?
“Hi Christy! My husband and I have been
wondering how to go about becoming counter-cult contact
people in our area. There is a huge need, as I am
sure you know. Another couple is interested in this
idea, but none of us really knows how to get started.
Can you give us any ideas?”
CONTENT TO BE ADDED SOON
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How Can I Help Witnesses for Jesus?
- A. Become a Financial Support
Partner
- B. Participate in our Email Prayer
Chain
- C. Advertise - Place Ads in Your
Local Paper
- D. Translation Work - Materials
in Foreign Languages
- E.
Graphic Design Artists
- F. Ex-JW / Ex-LDS Testimonies
for the Website
- G. Ex-JW / Ex-LDS Email Ministry
Volunteers
A.
Become a Financial Support Partner 
We praise the Lord that we obtained
501(c)3 non-profit status with the IRS in 2004. All donations
to this ministry are tax-deductible. As with most
ministries, finances present the greatest asset
to ministry outreaches. If you feel led of the Lord
to financially partner with our ministry, click
the "Make a Donation" button (above)
for more details. Your support of our ministry goes to support the following outreaches:
SENDING MATERIAL TO PEOPLE INTERESTED IN REACHING JWS AND LDS:
You support enables us to continue mailing our free English information packets to Christians who are reaching out to their Mormon
and Jehovah's Witness friends and loved-ones.
We also partner with Libraries of Hope (a prison ministry)
to distribute our material free of charge to
prison chaplains throughout the country.
ENHANCEMENT OF TRAINING MATERIALS AND WEBSITE DEVELOPMENT
Your support enables us to continue to develop training materials in both the English and Spanish languages that we make available free of charge through our websites. Currently, our website receives approximately 1,134 visits per day from a total of 181 countries over the course of a year. 839 of these daily visitors are first time visitors to our websites with a 26% return rate. In 2008, pageviews on our websites totalled 1.4 million.
B.
Participate in our Email Prayer Chain
Read Scripture verses to use in praying for your
Jehovah's Witness and LDS (Mormon) Friends.
Ephesians 6:12 emphasizes that "...our
struggle is not against flesh and blood,
but against the rulers, against the powers, against
the world forces of this darkness, against
the spiritual forces
of wickedness in the heavenly places."
In view of this, we have developed an email prayer
support team through our website that enables you
to submit prayer requests for your Jehovah's Witness
and Mormon friends and relatives and to intercede
for others who are likewise dealing with the same
issues.
To participate in our prayer chain,
send a short email to us
with the words "prayer team"
in the subject line of your email.
You must include:
1. Your First and Last Name
2. Email Address
3. JW or LDS Specific Prayer Request(s) - no more
than 120 words please
Within a couple days of receiving your request,
we will email your prayer request to our prayer
team prayer partners with the subject line "WFJ
Prayer Team - Date." For privacy concerns,
we will only provide your first name and email address
for contact. Any answers to prayer or updates you
send will also be posted in our next email update.
We reserve the right to condense, edit or refuse
to post requests we receive.
C.
Advertise - Place Ads in Your Local Paper
Placing ads in your local newspaper, penny-saver,
secular and Christian publications are an excellent
way to spread the word about our ministry to people
needing help in dealing with the Jehovah's Witnesses
and Mormons. The following are suggestions for effective
ads:
Note: For secular publications, it is best to
target the Jehovah's Witness or Latter-day Saint
(Mormon) audience individually by themselves rather
than to try to appeal to both groups in one ad.
- For a Secular Publication:
- Jehovah's Witnesses examine
secret facts about the Watchtower, Free, Confidential:
WFJ, PO Box 50911, Colorado Springs, CO 80949, USA www.4jehovah.org
- Latter-day Saints - Is the
Mormon Church telling you the whole truth? Free,
Confidential Facts: WFJ, PO Box 50911, Colorado
Springs, CO 80949, www.4mormon.org
- For a Christian Publication:
- Need Help Answering your
Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormon
friends? Request our Free information packet:
Witnesses for Jesus, PO Box 50911, Colorado
Springs, CO 80949, www.4witness.org
D.
Translation Work - Materials in Foreign Languages
We have had several requests for material in foreign
languages. Some of our Jehovah's Witness material
has been translated into the Spanish and Russian
Languages, but we have nothing else translated into
any other language. If you or someone you know would
be interested in helping us translate our materials
into other languages (especially the Portuguese,
German and French languages), please contact us. We also need people who have the ability
and the software to type the translated foreign
language material into MicroSoft Word documents
that we can format back into the original tracts
/ brochure style of the English documents we place
on our website.
E.
Graphic Design Artists
We are in need of experienced Graphic Design Artists
who would be willing to donate time and resources
to enhance the design quality of our material. Our
equipment can handle US Letter size documents in
MicroSoft products or image files (.gif, .tif, .jpg,
.bmp, etc). If you or someone you know would be
interested designing covers for our DVD/CD projects,
books and brochures, please contact us. Thank you!
F.
Ex-JW / Ex-LDS Testimonies for the Website
If you are a former Jehovah's Witness or a former
Mormon who would like to share your testimony of
coming out of false religion and finding the real
Jesus, we would be interested in posting your story
on our website for others to be encouraged. All
you would need to provide to us is your name, email
address and a photo along with your testimony and
we will review it for the website. No personal information
besides your first name and photo will be posted
on the website. All last names and email addresses
are kept confidential, unless you join our email
ministry team (see application below). When you
write your testimony, please include the following
information:
Your Testimony Should Include the Following:
- Your Religious Background prior to the
LDS or JW Religion
- What Led You Into the Religion
- How Long You were Involved and at What
Level
- What Led You Out of the Religion –
Note: It’s good to include unanswered questions
that the leaders of the LDS or JW religion could
not answer. Your goal is to provoke thought in the
mind of any JW or LDS person reading your story.
- How You Found the Real Jesus Christ
- A Summary of What Your Walk with Jesus
is like on a Day-by-Day Basis now that You are Saved.
- Closing Thoughts – Note:
You may want to include an evangelistic message
for any unsaved person who may read your testimony
on the website.
Please try to keep your testimony to no longer
than 3 or 4 pages. You may email your testimony
to us as a MicroSoft Word document attachment or
send plain text in an email. Please contact us to email your testimony
to us
and include a digital photo as
well as the text "Testimony for the
Website" in the Subject line of your
email. We will review your story and if it is what
we're looking for, we will post it on the website
along with any edits we deem appropriate. We will
run all edits by you for your approval prior to
linking your page to the main Ex-JW Story page.
Thank you for your participation!
G.
Ex-JW / Ex-LDS Email Ministry Volunteers
We are putting together an email network of former
Jehovah's Witnesses and former Mormons who are interested
in talking to others who have left or are in the
process of leaving the group. The purpose of this
ministry is to provide a private/confidential environment
in which Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons (who are
on their way out of the religion) can correspond
over email with someone who can relate to what they
are going through and who can help answer their
questions about God, the Bible, Salvation, etc without
putting pressure on them to accept a particular
religious belief or to join a religious church.
If you are a former Jehovah's Witness or Latter-day
Saint (Mormon) who agrees with all of the tenants
of our Statement
of Faith and who would be interested in volunteering
on our email ministry team to provide encouragement,
spiritual and emotional support to those on their
way out, please contact us through email with the words "JW (or LDS) Email Ministry
Team" in the subject line of your
email and provide us with the following information:
1. Your First and Last Name and Phone
Number and Mailing Address
2. Your Story - Include:
- Your Religious Background prior to the LDS
or JW Religion
- What Led You Into the Religion
- How Long You were Involved and at What Level
- What Led You Out of the Religion
- How Long You Have Been Out of the Religion
- How You Found Jesus Christ and How Long You've
Known Him
- A Summary of What your Walk with Jesus Christ
is like on a Day-by-Day Basis
3. Your Current Church Affiliation
- include the name of your church
or fellowship group and what type
of church it is - like Baptist, Evangelical Free,
Calvary Chapel, non-denominational, etc. **
4. How Long
You've Been Involved With This Church
or Fellowship Group
5. Your Ministry Role at this Church (Past and
Present)
6. References:
- Your Pastor's Name and Phone Number
- Name and Phone Number of Someone You've Led
to the Lord or Discipled in the Word of God
(See 2 Corinthians 3:1-2)
- Name and Phone Number of someone you have
served alongside in ministry
7. Describe your prayer life and personal,
spiritual walk with Jesus.
8. List a few passages of Scripture you
would share with a Jehovah's Witness or Mormon
who is struggling with the concepts of the Trinity
and Hell doctrines in the Bible.
9. Provide a brief summary of your spiritual
gifts and what role you would like to play in
ministering to a former Jehovah's Witness or Mormon
through our ministry.
10. A digital photo that we can display
on your testimony page from our website. View web pages of our current email ministry team
partners. (Note: If you do not have the ability
to email a digital photo, you may mail a printed
photo to us at: Witnesses for Jesus, Inc, Attn:
Email Ministry Team, PO Box 50911 Colorado Springs,
CO 80949)
After we have reviewed your email application (answers
to the questions above) and spoken with your references,
we will contact you and setup a phone interview.
If everything checks out, we will place your story
on our referral ministry webpage along with your
name and email address.
**Note:
We do not oversee the personal Christian walks
of those serving on our ministry teams. We only
require that each person serving with our ministry,
agree with our Statement
of Faith and be active in his or her own bible-believing
congregation or home group. This requirement is
so that the members of our team have a support
system of spiritual accountability through which
they can have fellowship with believers both inside
and outside our ministry.
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17.
Why do you target only Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter-day
Saints (Mormons)? Do you have information on other religions
besides them?
At this point, our focus is strictly
on the Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter-day Saints (Mormons)
because this is the area we feel God has lead us to
specialize in. Due to the time and experience needed
to investigate these religions at the depth required
in order to produce quality research at our current
level, we feel that if we broaden our focus to other
religions (at this point), we wouldn't be able to be
as effective in reaching these two primarly religions.
This is not to say that at some future point we may
not expand our outreach to another religion, but for
now, research on Jehovah's Witnesses and Latter-day
Saints (Mormons) is all that we offer. However, for
your questions on other religions, there are a few ministries
that we recommend. See our Website Links page. You might also find the following webpage on our site helpful in explaining why we do what we do:
18.
Why do you use other translations in addition to the Authorized
1611 King James Bible?
In certain circles of Christianity,
there is a movement that insists that the 1611 version
of the King James Bible is the most accurate translation
available today. Fueled by the writings of King James
Only advocates, such as Gail A. Riplinger and her book,
New Age Bible Versions, proponents of this
movement often insist that the use of any other translation
of the Bible perverts the pure teachings of God’s
Word. In response to such claims, we encourage readers
who have been influenced by this thinking to examine
the other side of this debate as Riplinger's claims
and the claims of other KJV only promoters have been
thoroughly refuted in books such as James White’s
King
James Only Controversy and several articles
available online. See New
Age Bible Versions Refuted by James White, King
James Only? by Bob DeWaay, New
Age Bible Versions: Truth or Deception? Far from
obscuring the Deity of Jesus Christ in newer translations,
we have found that in certain cases, the case for the
Deity of Jesus Christ comes through clearer in the newer
translations than it does in the King James Version.
Indeed, when any matter such as this one arises, we
do well to heed the advice of Proverbs 18:17: “He
that is first in his own cause seemeth just; but his
neighbour cometh and searcheth him.” For a good
overview of various Bible Translations see the Bible
Versions article by Buddy Martin.
19.
Where do I go on your site to download the free Teacher's
Guide and Student Handouts for your seminar DVDs?
If you purchased one of our Jehovah's Witness or Mormon
seminar DVDs, you may download the free Teacher's Guide
and Student Handouts for the DVD at the following links:
LDS Questions: Answering
Questions Your Mormon Friends Ask
JW Questions:
Answering Questions Your Jehovah's Witness Friends Ask
20.
I've heard skeptics say there are no eyewitness of Jesus.
Is this true?
"I have heard from various atheist and other
sources that there are no real witnesses of Jesus.
By that, I mean there is no historical evidence from
people who met Jesus when he was alive (or supposed
to have lived). Apparently the only sources of information
concerning him are hearsay documents (e.g, epistles
and gospels) written decades after he supposedly died
by people who never met him. I want to know if this
is true, so I can rebut these claims. As your group
is called 'Witnesses for Jesus', can you provide me
with any real Witnesses? By that I mean writings or
any other evidence from people who actually met Jesus."
The gospels, epistles were written by eyewitnesses
of Jesus. They were contemporaries of Jesus’ time
and the evidence of their belief in Jesus can be see
by the fact that before Jesus rose from the dead, they
went into hiding, but once he arose and appeared to
them, they no longer hid but courageously preached of
His existence, even to the point of dying for their
faith. Why would they die for a “lie” or
“myth” they made up? The historicity of
Jesus has been substantiated to the point that no reputable
scholar can deny. No only is the reality of Jesus documented
in the gospels and books Christians call “Scripture”
but also in the historical writings of Tacitus and Josephus
and archeological findings. If the existence of Jesus
is a “myth,” what are non-Biblical writers such as
Tacitus and Josephus doing writing about Him in their
ancient historical documents? For more information see
the following websites:
Ancient Writings Substantiating Jesus' Existence:
Early Non-Christian Witnesses to Jesus Christ (www.bibleviews.com)
The Reliability of the Secular References to Jesus
(www.tektonics.org)
Quotes from the historian
Josephus about Jesus (www.carm.org)
Are the Gospels a Reliable Eyewitness Account of the Life of Jesus? (www.pleaseconvinceme.com)
Is There Any Evidence for Jesus Outside the Bible? (www.pleaseconvinceme.com)
Is Jesus Simply a Retelling of the Mithras Mythology? (www.pleaseconvinceme.com)
22. Do you have a discussion board for Jehovah's Witness and Mormons to publicly debate your Christian beliefs?
Unfortunately, we have a very small supply of staff and cannot afford the time it takes to run and moderate a public discussion board for Jehovah’s Witnesses and Mormons who wish to debate our beliefs. We recommend CARM.ORG’s discussion boards as most of the doctrines and facts covered on our websites have been discussed and debated on their boards at one time or another. You can visit and participate on their public boards at the following links:
JW Debate: http://www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/forumdisplay.php?f=28
LDS Debate:
http://www.christiandiscussionforums.org/v/forumdisplay.php?f=29
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