Believer's Basics: A Starting Foundation for the Christian Life

Two ordained, bi-vocational pastors offer a short, plain-spoken primer for the man or woman who has come to Christ and now reasonably asks, "What now?" Believer's Basics gathers the foundations of Christian doctrine and daily practice into twenty-five short chapters, arranged in two parts. Part I - Following Jesus (chapters 1-7) takes up what it is to follow Christ at all: discipleship, loving your enemies, loving your brothers and sisters in Christ, rebuking a brother in love, rejecting the world and clinging to Christ and His Word, the Lord's Table, and growing covenantally in the household of God. Part II - Foundations for the Christian Life (chapters 8-25) lays the doctrines and habits on which a faithful walk is built: what a church is and how to belong to one, the two greatest commandments, the gift of marriage and the seriousness of sexual sin, seeking first the kingdom, identifying false teachers, knowing you are saved, the inner witness of the Holy Spirit, the fruit of the Spirit, vocation as worship, light to the world, workers and employers, wives and husbands, marital intimacy as a defense against sin, disciplining children biblically, honoring parents and ordered loves, the spiritual war, the armor of light, and Christian liberty. Not a survey of advanced theology. Not a systematic. Just the foundation - clearly stated, anchored in Scripture (NASB 1995), and written for the new and growing Christian. The reader who finishes this book and understands it will know enough to begin the Christian life rightly and to keep walking in it. Useful for personal reading, family devotion, and as a tool for any pastor or discipler placing a single accessible volume in the hands of a new believer. Scripture quotations are from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD BIBLE(R), 1995 Edition, used by permission of The Lockman Foundation.

Pages: 149, Paperback, Independently published