Here’s the 4th little segment about helping our “baby sisters.” New Christians don’t come into the church walking the walk perfectly or talking the talk without a stutter. Here are some more ideas to help us take their hands and help them through the developmental stages:
13. Invite her to do Digging Deep with you. I’ve just done this with a girlfriend here in town. She made a facebook page with an alias name just so she can be in the DD facebook group. (She had not been on FB prior to this, and she doesn’t really want to do the whole social media thing. Her FB name is so “hippie” that my DD “watch team” all contacted to say “This is an AI bot, right? We shouldn’t let ‘it’ in?”) But she’s in! She’s coming to the local study next Monday night and she’s probably the most excited one coming. And DD has converted people! It’s just the Word and the Word is powerful. Invite, invite, invite!
14. Be sure you make time to study with her. Start with the Lord’s supper. 1 Corinthians 15 says “some are weak and sick among you.” Guess who these people were? They were the men and women who didn’t take the Lord’s Supper with discernment. Start with a study of the Lord’s Supper and write some things down for her…thoughts on which she can meditate during the Lord’s Supper. Help take her from the NICU to a place of wellness. She needs you! Then go on and study the book of John and then Acts with her. In the process, you will find out what she needs most. Go, in the Word, wherever that need is. Always start your study with “Do you have questions for me?” Make sure you give her Bible reading assignments for in-between your studies with her.
15. Encourage and help her to attend some rich seminar with you, like Polishing the Pulpit or Bible camp or a great ladies day. If there’s a lot of expense involved, consider asking your elders to help you in making it possible for her. If she can, she should help pay for it, too. She needs skin in the game. (P.S. Polishing the Pulpit (www.polishingthepit.com) is the best growth starter I have ever seen! If your congregation has PTP365, get her connected)
16. Often, those we convert come into the body with financial needs Go with these new sisters to speak with the elders, if you have them, about these needs. This is tricky, of course. We don’t want to convert people to a financial welfare system, but a spiritual one. But we minister to those in the body. Godly elders will have the wisdom needed to help in the best ways and to advise you about personally helping in these cases.
