APPLY YOURSELF TO THE FIELD MINISTRY: Week of March 10 to 16, 2025, Explain your beliefs: Staging. Topic: Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate Easter Sunday? Lesson 3 point 4. Prepared Assignment.

APPLY YOURSELF TO THE FIELD MINISTRY: March 10-16, 2025, Explain your beliefs: Staging. Topic: Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate Easter Sunday? Lesson 3 point 4. Prepared Assignment.

Explain your beliefs (5 mins.) Role-play. ijwfq article 19. Topic: Why don't Jehovah's Witnesses celebrate Easter Sunday? (lmd lesson 3 point 4).

Setting: A Jehovah's Witness brother received an invitation to celebrate Easter Sunday and another brother gives him advice.

Helper: [Name], my aunt, has invited me to celebrate Easter Sunday with the family because they say it is the day Jesus was resurrected and it is an important day. I know I shouldn't celebrate, but I don't want them to think I don't value them. How could I explain it without my family member being offended?

Publisher: It's good that you want to speak to him with respect. For example, you can first start by thanking them for the invitation. You can say: “Auntie, thank you for thinking of me. I know it is an important celebration for you.”

Helper: Yes, that sounds good, but he's probably going to ask me later why I don't celebrate Easter. How do I explain it to you in a simple way?

Publisher: You could say something like: “As Jehovah's Witnesses, I follow what the Bible teaches. Jesus commanded us to remember his death, not his resurrection. For this reason, every year we commemorate his death on the date it occurred.”

Helper: That's true, but what if you tell me we don't believe in the resurrection of Jesus?

Publisher: Good question. You can clarify that we do believe in the resurrection of Jesus and that it is even a pillar of our faith. For example, you can show in the Bible, in 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4, where it says that Jesus died and rose again on the third day, and that is what we preach.

Helper: I understand, but now I'm also worried that my aunt will think that I don't want to share with the family.

Publisher: You can make it clear that you value the family very much and that you would like to see them another time. Something like: “I love spending time with you. Maybe we can meet another day to share.” This way you show that it is not a personal rejection, but rather a matter of beliefs.

Helper: I like that idea, so I can be firm in my beliefs, but also show them love and respect.

Publisher: Exactly, and remember that 1 Peter 3:15 says that we should respond with kindness and respect. If you explain it with love, they are more likely to understand, although they may not agree.

Helper: Thank you, [Name]. Now I feel more prepared to talk to my aunt.