Becoming a Christian  ( 3 )    link to page 1    link to page 2

 

If you decided to become a Christian today, welcome to God's family.

Now, as a way to grow closer to Him, the Bible tells us to follow up on our commitment.

 

1.  Get baptised as commanded by Christ.   

2.  Tell someone else about your new faith in Christ.  

3.  Spend time with God each day.   It does not have to be a long period of time. Just develop the daily habit of praying to Him and reading His Word.   Ask God to increase your faith and your understanding of the Bible.

4.  Seek fellowship with other Christians.   Develop a group of Christian friends to answer your questions, support and challenge you.

 

 

At the beginning we mentioned the Christian life and the church being akin to "Sinners Anonymous".

With this in mind we would like to share a program of steps which have been found to help we sinners become more the way we should be - God's children in word and deed.

 

  1. 1.                  We admitted we were powerless over sin — that our lives had become unmanageable.

  2. 2.                  We came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity.

  3. 3.                  We made a decision to turn our will and our lives over to the care of the Christian God.

  4. 4.                  We made a searching and fearless moral inventory of ourselves.

  5. 5.                  We admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another believer the exact nature of our wrongs.

  6. 6.                  We were entirely ready to have God remove all these defects of character.

  7. 7.                  We humbly asked Him to remove our shortcomings.

  8. 8.                  We made a list of all people we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.

  9. 9.                  We made direct amends to such people wherever possible, except when to do so would injure them or others.

  10. 10.              We continued to take personal inventory and when we were wrong promptly admitted it.

  11. 11.              We sought through prayer and meditation to improve our conscious contact with God, praying only for knowledge of His Will for us and the power to carry that out.

  12. 12.              Having had a spiritual awakening as the result of these steps, we tried to carry this message to others who sought release from the burden of sin, and to practice these principles in all our affairs.

 ( these steps are repeated on this page with Bible quotations alongside )