Watchman Fellowship

Watchman Fellowship An evangelical Christian apologetics ministry focused on interfaith evangelism and discernment However, we are in no way affiliated with them.

Watchman Fellowship is an independent Christian research and apologetics ministry focusing on new religious movements, cults, the occult and the New Age. David Henke founded Watchman Fellowship in Columbus, Georgia in 1979. Today, Watchman Fellowship has grown to several offices in the United States. Watchman Fellowship serves the Christian and secular community as a resource for education, counse

ling, and non-coercive intervention and evangelism training. We accomplish these tasks through our church presentations, personal counseling, this website, and other activities. We have served almost every denomination including Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, Episcopal, Assemblies of God, Church of God, Lutheran, Nazarene, non-denominational, etc., as well as schools, law enforcement agencies, and civic groups. Concerning a person’s right to choose, we believe that a real choice is one based on access to all the information, and understanding both or all sides. The counterfeit groups typically try to block their members and the public from having access to this information. We have found that most cults will use deception, control, cover up, and dishonesty with their own members and the people they are trying to convert. This deception includes some or all of the following: the group’s history, false prophesy, false scholarship, a distortion of true church history and doctrine, and destructive practices of the group. Our name, Watchman Fellowship, is often confused with the Watchtower Society title used by the Jehovah’s Witnesses. Our name is taken from the Old Testament book of the Bible, Ezekiel.

“Now as for you, son of man, I have appointed you a watchman for the house of Israel; so you will hear a message from My mouth, and give them warning from Me.” (Ezekiel 33:7)

As Christians, we do believe that “we are our brother’s keeper.” Like the watchman on the wall (Ezekiel 3:17), we have the responsibility to sound a warning against the deception and destructive spiritual abuse practiced by counterfeit groups. In sounding such warning Watchman Fellowship also has a principled commitment to accuracy.

09/02/2026

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09/01/2026

Many skeptics object to what they consider to be God's "genocidal" behavior in the Old Testament. Sometimes their objections are passionate and even angry.

This is not to belittle the skeptic for having such objections, but to point out it is a moral objection. That is, while they will say they don't believe that the God of the Old Testament exists, they will admit that they find God's actions to be morally objectionable.

An interesting question for discussion when talking to those who raise this objection is "If you had legal jurisdiction, power, and authority over the God of the Old Testament, to "punish" Him somehow for what you perceive to be His immoral crimes against humanity, what would you do to Him?"

The question immediately gets to the heart of the issue. Responses we have heard when we've asked this question.

1. Nothing, because God doesn't exist.
2. I wouldn't do anything because I'm more moral than your god.
3. I would send him to the hell He made.
4. Nothing, because he's all-powerful.

Rare is response 4, though we have heard it before.

Number 1 avoids the implications of one's moral indignation altogether. Some skeptics who've replied this way realize, perhaps for the first time, what the logical conclusion of their moral indignation should lead to - judgment - and don't wish to commit to appearing as though they are doing the very thing they are condemning.

Response 2 is actually a concession of injustice. They would not do anything, no justice or punishment to fit the alleged crimes, even though they seem to think God is guilty of wrongdoing. So the skeptic here would "overlook" the crimes and let the guilty go free, no punishment. This is Allah and Islam. Allah simply forgives, but there is no penalty for sins committed.

Response 3 is essentially doing the very same thing the skeptics find objectionable in the first place. It is ok for the skeptic to judge and condemn God for actions they find immoral, but it is not ok for God to condemn and judge the immoral acts of His own creation.

The truth is that God is a holy God, who cannot look upon or tolerate sin. We relish and revel in our sin. It feels good. It's comforting, familiar, and exalts the self. It initially seems to give us a sense of autonomy and control. But in the end it is death. Justice must be meted out against sin. The punishment for human iniquity is death and must be dolled out for justice to be accomplished.

This is precisely what God accomplishes on the cross through Jesus. He who lived in perfect accord with the Law, He who lived a perfectly blameless life, in accordance with all of the commandments, He who knew no sin took on all the sins of the entire human race, past, present and future, upon Himself, satiating the wrath of God, fulfilling the just requirements of the Law, and also enabling God to grant forgiveness to us in and through Christ.

God used our contempt of Him ("Crucify Him! Crucify Him!) to bring about our forgiveness. As Jesus prayed from the cross, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do."

We must be turned from our sin and sinful contempt of God to His glorious love and forgiveness. We must confess our sin and repent of our sin, acknowledging our need of Jesus to forgive us and cleanse us and clothe us in His righteousness. There is no other way to be reconciled with God or with our fellow human beings other than through the cross of Christ.

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09/01/2026

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08/31/2026

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In a world that often seems to be chaotically out of control, in a world of an endless cacophony of competing voices, in a world that encourages us to do whatever we want, in a world that relentlessly encourages us to pursue our own interests and desires, how can we possibly even begin to "live...

On the planet Mercury, one day is 176 Earth days and one year is 88 Earth days. What's a work week like on this barren w...
08/29/2026

On the planet Mercury, one day is 176 Earth days and one year is 88 Earth days.

What's a work week like on this barren world? Start work in the morning and then, well, when's lunch break? Some four to six Earth months away (depending on if you want an early or late lunch of course)!

And it would take nearly 2 1/2 Earth years to get to the weekend! So next time you think your week is moving slowly, just be grateful and thankful you're not working on Mercury!

The Earth and our time for labor were created specifically for us! Our chronology is no accident.

“Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days you shall labor and do all your work, but the seventh day is a sabbath of the LORD your God; in it you shall not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you. For in six days the LORD made the heavens and the earth, the sea and all that is in them, and rested on the seventh day; therefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day and made it holy." Exodus 20.8-11.

08/28/2026

The heavens are telling...

08/28/2026

Geologists interpret rocks to be very old. This, many believe, calls into question the creation narrative found in Genesis and somehow "disproves" the Bible in general.

Joseph Smith also used a rock to interpret what he claimed was scripture; a narrative that likewise seemed to alter a traditional understanding of the Bible.

In the end of time, when Jesus returns, people will cry out to the rocks to fall on them to hide them from the wrath of God.

There, however, only only one Rock (1 Cor. 10.4) Who properly interprets Scripture; only one Rock to whom we may cry out and flee to safety.

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