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If someone says "I have become a Christian, what now?" how do you answer?
For many the answer will be something like: get involved in a church, start to read the Bible, go to a small group, etc
All good things. I doubt that a first century apostle would answer the same way
For many the answer will be something like: get involved in a church, start to read the Bible, go to a small group, etc
All good things. I doubt that a first century apostle would answer the same way
They say things like:
* learn to live a life worthy of the calling you received
* grow in the fruit of the Holy Spirit
* learn to pray
* set your hearts and minds on things above
* receive the Holy Spirit and new obligations to him
* eagerly desire spiritual gifts
* learn to live a life worthy of the calling you received
* grow in the fruit of the Holy Spirit
* learn to pray
* set your hearts and minds on things above
* receive the Holy Spirit and new obligations to him
* eagerly desire spiritual gifts
* learn, by God& #39;s grace, to say no to ungodliness and put sin to death
* delight yourself in the Lord
* get involved in Jesus& #39; work
* offer your bodies as sacrifices, this is worship
We could go on
* delight yourself in the Lord
* get involved in Jesus& #39; work
* offer your bodies as sacrifices, this is worship
We could go on
Why are these things so often not our default go-tos? I suspect that it has something to do with the fact that programmes, activities and knowledge-transference are more measureable and reportable. Whereas these things aren& #39;t
Ask yourself whether your church deliberately teaches these things to new believers. Is there, for example, some instruction on how to pray? That& #39;s pretty basic, but weird for new Christians
Too often we don& #39;t act as if Christians (especially new ones) need to reorient our entire life & worldview to a completely new paradigm
We are therefore tempted to bolt Christianity on to a life lived under the previous paradigm & hope there is some transformation at some point
We are therefore tempted to bolt Christianity on to a life lived under the previous paradigm & hope there is some transformation at some point
