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Just as you shouldn't leave a newborn baby alone to die, you shouldn't desert
a "babe in Christ" without nurturing him. It's your responsibility to help
your converts grow spiritually, so they won't waste the rest of their time on

earth. Teach them what you know. Teach the simplest doctrines first. (1
Corinthians 3:2, Hebrews 5:12-13, 1 Peter 2:2) If you're a bad teacher, at
least get them in your church to be taught by someone more capable. (1
Corinthians 12:28-29) PRAY God will protect your converts from being led
astray when you're not around.

LOCAL CHURCH

Before you leave a new convert's porch, invite them to a church assembly
without asking for a response. I don't believe you should push too hard right
away for them to come, as this can leave them with the impression that "This
whole time, he just wanted me to join his church." That will leave the
convert discouraged before he's even had a chance to grow.

You can offer to drive them to and from church services. If they don't have a

Bible and you forgot to bring extras, you can offer to give them one of the
Bibles you keep at the church house "when" they come Sunday! You could
offer to go with them to meet your pastor for personal fellowship or to ask
him questions (in the church office or the pastor's house or outside grilling
burgers or whatever). Talk about yourself, your pastor, and your church in
such a way that lets the convert know that you all are not some untouchable
"holier-than-thou" clergy, but brothers and friends. Explain that assembling
regularly with other believers provides protection (Acts 18:10),

accountability (Proverbs 29:15), and motivation to do what we normally
might not strive to do. (2 Corinthians 9:2, 1 Thessalonians 2:11, 4:1) You
can make devotional application of Hebrews 10:24-25.

Hebrews 10:24-25 "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love
and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together,
as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the

more, as ye see the day approaching."