12 Questions
- My Audience Would Like to Have Answered:
1. Dan, how long were you a Jehovah’s Witness? (40 years)
2. Dan, is it true that Witnesses don’t celebrate birthdays or holidays?
Including Thanksgiving and Christmas too?
3. What
was this like for you growing up?
4. How can I
share the holidays with my non-celebrating Jehovah’s Witness co-workers, neighbors or their children?
5. What kind of courage does it take to leave your faith after 40 years?
6. Was there a magic moment – or was it a progressive realization
- when you said, “I’m out of here!”
7.
I’ve heard that once you leave the Jehovah’s Witness faith that you are cut off from all of your family and church
family – is this true? How have you dealt with this?
8. What made you decide to write this book?
9. Do you think that your father’s depression, your mother’s mental illness, your other family
members’ mental illness, your brother’s MS and the overall dysfunction of your family have anything to do with
being a Jehovah’s Witness?
10. How has your life
changed for the better since you left?
11. How is the
way you viewed God as a Witness different from the way you view Him now?
12. How does one go about deciding or discovering what spiritual path to take after leaving an experience like
this?
13. What do you think kept you from abandoning
your faith in God or a Higher Power through all of this?
14.
Dan, what do you perceive to be the #1 problem in American churches today – across the board – and what can we
do about it?
15. What is the #1 thing I can do to help
a Witness who comes to my door?
16. If someone in our
audience today is feeling that they too need/want to escape their controlling and abusive situation – religion, job,
whatever – what advice do you have for them?
ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS
(if interested):
How dramatically does your life change the
day you become a Jehovah’s Witness?
What should I know
about the Jehovah’s Witness who knocks at my door?
What
is the major difference between the JW Bible and the other Christian bibles?
