This morning a man attempted to hand me a JW tract. I said "No thank you." When he asked me why I replied that JWs that come to my house tend not to finish conversations, and that they are monitored by administrars who pull them away when we get deep into a discussion. He accepted that, and walked away.

 

Later I had a bundle of thoughts: Should I have talked with him for a long time, to pull him from his goal of witnessing to other Walmart shoppers? Should I have surprised him by where our discussion would have taken us?

 

Here's a thought that I'd like a response to:

 

Should I have begun a discussion by asking, "Why are you going to try and tell me that I believe in three gods when I know that I believe in one God? And why are you going to try and tell me that you believe in one God when you actually believe in three?"

 

What do you think of that opening?

 

Where would YOU go with it?

 

 

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I've gone in all different directions with JW's. Perhaps my approach is the wrong way to go - I've talked about passages in the Bible: John, Romans, Revelation, Isaiah, etc with them and I rarely get very far with them. Most of the conversations have not ended well with me wondering what I did that deserved such sour treatment. I hate conversations that feel like a torn up battlefield in the end.

But at this point, if I did ever choose to talk with a JW again, I'd probably just go with the whole socratic method to try to help them figure out whether they have good reasons for trusting the Watchtower. That's one direction I haven't taken yet.