Jehovah's Witnesses & Shunning

How are Jehovah’s witnesses instructed to treat a Disfellowshipped or Disassociated Person?

Let’s get the answer from the Leaders ( The faithful and descreet slave)

Keep yourselves in God Love (2008)

How to treat a Disfellowshipped Person

How should we treat a disfellowshipped person?

.... We do not have spiritual or social fellowship with disfellowshipped ones. “A simple ‘Hello’ to someone can be the first step that develops into a conversation and maybe even a friendship. Would we want to take that first step with a disfellowshiped person?”

What if a relative is disfellowshipped? In such a case, the close bond between family members can pose a real test of loyalty. How should we treat a disfellowshipped relative?

Loyal Christian family members do not look for excuses to have dealings with a disfellowshipped relative not living at home. Rather, loyalty to Jehovah and his organization moves them to uphold the Scriptural arrangement of disfellowshipping

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The watchtower 15 Sep 1981

THOSE WHO DISASSOCIATE THEMSELVES

One who has been a true Christian might renounce the way of the truth, stating that he no longer considers himself to be one of Jehovah's Witnesses or wants to be known as one....

Persons who make themselves “not of our sort” by deliberately rejecting the faith and beliefs of Jehovah’s Witnesses should appropriately be viewed and treated as are those who have been disfellowshiped for wrongdoing.

The elders would then make a brief announcement of his disassociation so that the congregation will know that he “went out from us.”(1 John 2:19) They then will adhere to the inspired injunction ‘not to receive such a one into their homes or say a greeting to him, so as not to become sharers in his wicked works.’—2 John 10, 11. (The watchtower 1-July-1984 Questions From Readers)

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Thanks to these twisted teachings, myself and many others are no longer welcomed in homes of family members nor greeted, because we left the watchtower organization and no longer support its teachings