Spiritual Growth: Helping New Believers Grow

Hello, we pray that you are doing well and that your fall semester is going well. We talk a lot about sharing your faith - the importance of taking the initiative, talking with others about Jesus faith and reaching students on your campus. We pray that you will get to see a number of other students make decisions to begin a relationship with Jesus. We also want you to know what to do once you have seen someone trust in the Lord. Whether you led them to Christ, or they are a new or immature believer that is in your movement, there are several excellent resources that might help you, help them.

On the website http://www.godsquad.com/discipleship/index.htm there are some tools that are called "Life Concepts". They are found under the discipleship section. The lessons cover valuable topics such as:

• Assurance of salvation
• Forgiveness of the believer
• Filling of the Spirit
• Walking in the Spirit
• Spiritual growth

New Christians need to understand who they are in Christ, the above topics will help lay that foundation. The new believer also needs help in these areas:

• developing a regular habit of spending time with the Lord in prayer and in His word
• finding a good local church where they can learn and grow
• close fellowship with other believers
• encouragement and equipping on how to share the Good News of their salvation with those around them

Ephesians 4:14-15 "Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ."

What a wonderful privilege we have to be involved in what the Lord is doing in the lives of His children! We pray that your ministry will bear much fruit and that you will have the awesome joy of helping others grow and mature in their relationship with Christ.