How to leave the Watchtower AND help your JW family members so that they leave together with you? This Manual will be your guide if you want to leave JWs but among them you still have: Your spouse, children, family members, friends and work related relationships. I know how you feel: I was one of JWs for 25 years. Hundreds have been helped by me personally, using these methods since 2008. These are hundreds of happy stories and hundreds of improved lives and saved marriages.Now, these methods are available in this book.In Which Areas Will This Book Help You? Use five ways to disprove that there was no "governing body" in the first century C.E., just from the New World Translation (NWT). Once JWs see there was no "governing body," it is easier for them to leave. Choose from five exit strategies. Learn to disprove the teaching about the year 1914, just from the NWT. How to talk to your JW spouse and family members to gain them and leave the WT together. Should you report your time from the ministry? Should you prove the Watchtower wrong? Should you display your doubts? What to do if your spouse already views you as an apostate and wants separation or divorce. How to use a ruse in your exit strategy. Which meetings to attend and how to behave? How to talk to the elders in the case of a judicial committee. How to mitigate the effects of your exit. How to make new friends. How to leave without holding a grudge and with peace of mind. Learn From Rahab (Sample From a Chapter) Use a ruse to protect yourself and your family when leaving JWs. The Watchtower praises Rahab (Joshua 2; 6:17-25): "Rahab's ruse worked! ... Using a simple strategy, she had misdirected men who had no right to the truth and she had saved innocent servants of Jehovah." [w13 11/1] Ruse: Misdirecting those who have no right to the truth. Not telling the truth to those who do not have the right to the truth. According to the WT, the state officials do not have the right to the truth: For example, to gain legal recognition in some countries (e.g. in the Eastern Europe), the WT representatives stated, that JWs do not teach their members to "abstain from blood" transfusions. The organization told its members that it was necessary to resort to a ruse to be granted legal recognition. You can and you should start using a ruse to protect yourself and your family right now. You can also use a ruse to win your JW members over. Be Like Rahab. It might bring you peace of mind to define ruse in the following way: Not telling the truth to those who do not have the right to the truth at this time: those who would do harm to you, to your spouse, to your family. You can misdirect and mislead people like this by giving them a false impression. You can freely use a ruse with anybody (including the elders) who could harm you or your loved ones in any way, to protect yourself and your family.Reflect What kind of ruse (strategy) can you start using with your JW spouse and family members not to lose them but to win them over? What kind of ruse can you start using within the congregation and with the elders? What new possibilities will a ruse create in your life? This was a short sample from a chapter in the book. The methods from this Exit Manual can help you and your family the same way these have helped many others.

"A fascinating glimpse into the consciousness of being an outsider in every possible way, and what it takes to find your path into the life you'd like to lead."--Nylon A riveting memoir of losing faith and finding freedom while a covert missionary in one of the world's most restrictive countries. A third-generation Jehovah's Witness, Amber Scorah had devoted her life to sounding God's warning of impending Armageddon. She volunteered to take the message to China, where the preaching she did was illegal and could result in her expulsion or worse. Here, she had some distance from her community for the first time. Immersion in a foreign language and culture--and a whole new way of thinking--turned her world upside down, and eventually led her to lose all that she had been sure was true. As a proselytizer in Shanghai, using fake names and secret codes to evade the authorities' notice, Scorah discreetly looked for targets in public parks and stores. To support herself, she found work at a Chinese language learning podcast, hiding her real purpose from her coworkers. Now with a creative outlet, getting to know worldly people for the first time, she began to understand that there were other ways of seeing the world and living a fulfilling life. When one of these relationships became an "escape hatch," Scorah's loss of faith culminated in her own personal apocalypse, the only kind of ending possible for a Jehovah's Witness. Shunned by family and friends as an apostate, Scorah was alone in Shanghai and thrown into a world she had only known from the periphery--with no education or support system. A coming of age story of a woman already in her thirties, this unforgettable memoir examines what it's like to start one's life over again with an entirely new identity. It follows Scorah to New York City, where a personal tragedy forces her to look for new ways to find meaning in the absence of religion. With compelling, spare prose, Leaving the Witness traces the bittersweet process of starting over, when everything one's life was built around is gone.

Jehovah's Witnesses number into the millions globally and are well known for their public evangelism about God's kingdom. But beneath the facade of brotherly love and organizational unity lies a captive organization in which doubts are stifled and dissent is ruthlessly crushed. Once a Witness stops believing, they face being ostracized as a loathed "mentally diseased" apostate. They must navigate a labyrinth of obstacles and dilemmas due to the organization's cruel policy of shunning former members. Lloyd Evans is a well known ex-Witness writer and activist, and in his second book he draws on his firsthand, insider knowledge as a former elder to guide would-be escapees through the minefield that awaits them. How should elders be dealt with? What resources are available for objective research? What should someone do if they are threatened with judicial action? What about coming clean to family members? How does someone go about rebuilding their social circle? What precautions should be taken to maintain privacy when browsing apostate material online? All these questions and more are answered in How to Escape From Jehovah's Witnesses, described by Paul Grundy of JWfacts.com as "an invaluable tool in helping [former Witnesses] move on as efficiently and painlessly as possible."

A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning—but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Folding laundry. Weeding the garden. Cooking dinner. Changing diapers. Work in the home can seem so ordinary. Does any of it matter? Is there meaning in our most mundane moments at home? When the work of the home fills our days, it is easy to get disillusioned and miss God's grand purpose for our work. As image bearers of the Creator who made us to work, we contribute to society, bringing order out of chaos and loving God through loving others—meaning there's glory in every moment. In this encouraging book, Courtney Reissig combats the common misconceptions about the value of at-home work—helping us see how Christ infuses purpose into every facet of the ordinary.