QUESTIONS SERIES: What is the most important thing for a new believer to do?
Perhaps the best thing for a new believer to do is to engage right away in what we call – The Spiritual Life Process. All too often, people begin a new relationship with God – and then drift and never fully engage in their new Christian life.
The Spiritual Life Process is a biblical approach to help new Christians begin to live life the way God intended. It’s spiritually mature Christians passing on life with God to others.
It starts off with KNOWING. Knowing is the starting place where new believers begin to learn the basic teachings of the Bible and start to build a spiritual foundation. This is crucial since there is a lot of confusing information out there about the Bible. In this step, a new believer learns to read, interpret and apply the Bible for themselves.
The next part of the process is LIVING OUT. Once a new believer is grounded in the basic teachings of the Bible, they learn to live out Christ in them wherever they go: with family, at work, with friends, with neighbors, etc.
Next, is CULTIVATING your spiritual life with God on a daily basis. A new believe stays close with God and others by engaging in spiritual practices such as prayer, Bible reading and study, worship, silence and solitude, serving, fellowship, etc.
The fourth step in the process is EXPERIENCING. As a new believer engages in KNOWING, LIVING OUT and CULTIVATING, the result will be that he or she will experience what is known in Scripture as the “fruit of the Spirit” in their lives on a daily basis – love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith, gentleness and self-control. Perhaps nothing matches living life with God and experiencing the fruit of the Spirit.
Finally, the process would not be complete if we stopped here. The Bible tells that we need to be involved in PASSING ON the life that God has given us to others (Matthew 28:19-20; 2 Timothy 2:2; Romans 10:14-17).
As a new believer enters into this process, they will truly begin to live life the way God intended.
