New Believers Material - "Growing In Christ"

Becoming a Christian is the most important decision you will ever make.  At Holroyd New Life Church we believe this decision is the first step in starting to follow Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour. Knowing and accepting Jesus as your Lord and Saviour takes time to develop and becomes more meaningful as time goes on.

Just like a baby growing up needs to be nurtured and fed, in the same way you need nurturing and help with finding out what the Christian life is all about. Our new believers material is designed to assist you to be established in your faith through Bible study and learning from a teacher or fellow-believer (mentor). We also recommend new members of Holroyd New Life Church go over the studies familiarise themselves with its teachings.

We acknowledge the part of Ringwood Christian Family Centre, Goulburn Valley Christian Fellowship, and Freedom in Christ Ministries in helping to prepare these studies. These studies have been collated and prepared by members of Holroyd New Life Church for the purpose of discipling new believers. Other Christian churches and ministries are free to use the studies, we simply ask that you acknowledge Holroyd New Life Church and the above contributors.  The material has been "dis-enculturated" so that the course is relevant to new believers from any cultural and ethnic background.

The studies are broken up into 15 topics - click on the links below to download the studies in PDF format....

An Introduction; 

Appendix #1    Resources

Appendix #2    Scriptural Helps

Appendix #3    Scriptural Truths

Appendix #4    Information for Mentors       

  1.  Who is God? 

  2. Who is Jesus? 

  3. Look what Sin has done 

  4. Repentance 

  5. Fellowship and Church Life 

  6. Baptism in Water 

  7. Baptism of the Holy Spirit

  8. The Bible and Bible Study

  9. Prayer

  10. Eternal Judgment

  11. Temptation and Spiritual Warfare 

  12. Freedom in Christ 

  13. Sharing the Gospel 

  14. Giving 

  15. Ethical Issues 

This PDF manual contains essentially a Bible study for each of these topics. The steps involved are:

1.   Reading:  Information may be provided to help educate you on Christian theology. Take the time to read this carefully and to reflect upon it. Write your own notes in the margins and make sure you discuss with your mentor anything that you have difficulty understanding.

2.      Memorising:  There is often a memory verse that expresses a key thought for that principle.  You are encourages to memorise it and reflect upon it.

3.      Learning:  Questions about the principle along with a verse of Scripture are asked.  Read the question, study the verse and write out your answer in the space provided after each question.  Your mentor will review your answers with you each week.

4.  Growing: Here is a place for you to write out any questions or comments you have on any area of interest that you would like to discuss.  Your mentor will discuss these with you.  Any problem that you are having at work, school or home can be talked about here.

We recommend that each week you will go through a different chapter with your mentor (some chapters may take more than one week). Be sure to have read the information, have the verse memorised and the questions answered before you meet again.

Along with the studies are some appendixes, designed to further assist you:

  1. Resources – additional books and material that we recommend to extend your understanding.
  2. Scripture Helps – verses you can look up when you are facing a particular situation.
  3. Scriptural Truths – a list of verses to establish your identity in Christ. It may be helpful to put this up in a place where you will read it often.

GOD BLESS YOU AS YOU STUDY HIS WORD!!