Wrap up Personal notes:
I am truly grateful for all of God's provisions towards me in the past and those he provides today. I have greatly benefitted from the rich knowledge and education I received through the Kingdom Hall School and The Watchtower organization. I do not regret the part of my Christian journey spent with the Jehovah’s Witnesses and the many loving and kind people in the congregations. I suppose it is fair to say that organizations of men that can start with good intentions can unfortunately evolve with errors in both complex and simple ways. I believe this happened to the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society and so I cannot continue to be a part of an organization which weaves false teaching with, into, and alongside truth from the Bible.
The spiritual damage they caused me back long ago has literally taken me 28 years to recover. But by the continued grace of God and HIS faithfulness I can be free of their implanted lies and recover my personal relationship with my Heavenly Father through Jesus Christ. While the hijacking of my relationship with God stopped my prayers and allowed me to stray into sin, I forgive those from the governing body that have committed sins of blasphemy, hubris, and heresy. Their judgement is by Jesus and not by me. I will pray they find their way to repentance, profess the Lord Jesus Christ as Savior and be saved. I pray the Governing Body will wake up from their own deception and will come to know the True Jesus and be a loving shepherd the Lord’s sheep by leading them to HIM and teach them to worship the Father in Spirit and Truth (John 4:24.)
I have HIS confirmation by The Holy Spirit to show me that he is still in me as I become more obedient to his commandments and appreciative of the meaning of his sacrificial blood. I am submissive to him and his direction. And his direction is to the scriptures and away from the man-made-up stuff. I am free of using God’s name in vain and instead let the scriptures themselves direct me to focus on the NAME by which we are saved, Jesus Christ.
When you become a true disciple of Christ, you do all things in his name and your speech reflects your acknowledgement how God is directing your worship in the name of his Son. This is what brings honor to the Father: that you honor the son.
John 5:22-23 BSB
or the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son, 23that all may honor the Son, even as they honor the Father. Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
You honor The Father when you use Jesus’ name to praise HIM (the Father) every single day and not only when praying in Jesus’ name. It is Jesus we let into our heart and we know it is Him dwelling in us because The Holy Spirit confirms this to us.
So let us shout the name of Jesus and let us talk about the Lord with affection and gratefulness: in this the Father is pleased. We don’t need to say the Father’s sacred name in daily conversation, but if someone asks us who our Heavenly Father is or we are reading scripture which uses the Tetragrammaton, we can say it is Jehovah or Yahweh. Otherwise, we call him Father, as Jesus did. Let that sink in and I will be praying for you to become free from the bondage of the harsh master that beats his household: the Governing Body.
In summary, I wish to tender this letter as my disassociation from the Watchtower Bible and Tract society and no longer wish to be known as a Jehovah’s Witness in association with the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society. Instead, you may refer to me as a Witness to Jesus Christ or a Disciple of Jesus Christ or even I am a witness to Jehovah God. I don’t hate anyone in the organization but instead really love you. I hope one day you will come to the light and abandon the doctrine of men for the pure Word of Truth (Matt 4:4, John 17:17)
Jesus loves each one of you and wishes you would come to him on bended knee asking for forgiveness and letting him come and reside in your heart. He is LOVE and he is freedom and no amount of works will earn a spot in heaven. If the organization ever gives up its false teachings and becomes a true force of teaching salvation according to the good news, I would love to consider whether they are then a true congregation of Jesus. But for now, I must continue to find other Christians of like mindedness to fellowship with and in order to fortify each other for continued disciple making, giving witness to the unsaved about the glorious Good News of the Kingdom of God…all this to the Glory of God, the Father in the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.