Witnessing to Jehovah’s Witnesses?

I once asked a favorite Sunday school teacher (and professor and “spiritual father” to me in undergrad.) how he engages Jehovah’s Witnesses in discussion when they come to his door to proselytize.

(Back then at least), this was his “plan”:

1. Explain to them what THEY believe: There is one God (“Jehovah”)–I agree! And it it not possible for there to be more than one God–I agree! And that Jesus is the archangel Michael incarnate and he died on a torture stick.

2. Ask them to please explain Orthodox Christianity. (Usually, they don’t know or they are incorrect in their explanations.)

3. Explain Orthodox Christianity to them while saying, “I’ve been responsible to study and know your beliefs … really, shouldn’t you be responsible to understand my beliefs?” Explain Orthodox Christianity FROM THEIR BIBLE (this is an important point!) …

The basis for my faith AND WOULDN’T YOU AGREE is that it is morally wrong to worship anything that is not God in the way you worship God? (“Absolutely,” they usually respond.)

Then take them to John 5:23; have them read it; and ask … “If the Son isn’t the Father, then this verse is telling me to be an idolator. But God the Father and God the Son ARE One.”

And to Colossians 2:9 … all the fullness of the Godhead dwells bodily in Christ. I don’t know how ALL the fullness can dwell in Christ unless HE IS GOD.

4. Share the gospel with them!

Has anyone ever done this? I always assume that the nice, moral, cleanly-dressed folks coming to my door are “perfectly trained” to rebut everything and anything I could ever tell them.

But maybe that is just one more area of faithlessness in me? How I lack love!