New convert instruction

[votivesoul]

Each new convert comes with a different need. A young man in his teens is going to be facing different circumstances than a 40 something single mother of five.

So I think the discipleship should be tailored to the needs of the person. I believe that with much prayer and sensitivity to the voice of the Lord and the leading of the Spirit, a teacher and mentor will never mistake what each new convert needs in the beginning of their walk.

With that being said, I almost always take new converts that I mentor through a study of the Bible first. Get them interested and indoctrinated into the Word Itself. Some call it Bibleology. From there I go into Theology proper, i.e. the nature of God. Then Christology, and onward from there.

I almost always put orthodoxy ahead of orthopraxy when discipling.