Introduction

Step 1: Make Sure You Are Saved

Step 2: Tell Someone

Step 3: Establish A Quiet Time

Step 4: Pray

Step 5: Make Christian Friends

Step 6: Find A Church

Step 7: Be Baptized

Step 8: Learn To Give

Step 9: Memorize God's Word

Step 10: Accountability Partner

 

Step Five - Make Christian Friends

After you become a Christian, you may find a need for some new friends. You may find that you are looking for new friends who share your love of the Lord and who will help you through the ups and downs of your new Christian life.

This kind of friend will joyfully sing with you when you are on the mountain top and silently walk beside you through the darkest valley.

This doesn't mean that you should abandon your old friends. You will want to continue loving them as well as being a witness for them of the Father's love. You may discover that some of them find the changes in you hard to accept but you can still try to love and accept them.

You new Christian friends will help you to stay on track with your commitment to look at life from God's perspective now. They will help establish a setting in which you will build your new life.

This is a fresh new way of living where love of God and treating others with love are the important things.

You Christian friends will have the added advantage of the same Spirit residing in each of them--the Holy Spirit. "And by this we know that He abides in us, by the Spirit whom He has given us" (1 John 3:24)

Your new friends can be a blessing and encouragement to you. Their friendship doubles your joy and divides your grief. They can be a support for you; they can share their spiritual wisdom with you. The next best thing to being wise yourself is having a circle of friends who are wise. Ask them to help you understand what you need to know.

Thay can also help you in many other ways. They can help you find answers to your questions. They can help you in your Bible study. They can assist you in locating a church where you can worship and grow in the Lord.

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