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Thank you Dr. Lind for your response. I know I had to have someone to "Dick and Jane" it down to me. I made a commitment to Christ at age 16 ~ read the Bible cover-to-cover first year of my conversation ( not claiming I understood much, actually.) At age 21 ( in Vietnam I was "DIscipled" by a 1st LT ~ one hour/night, and afterward reading the Bible and praying and mediating ~ thus, the growth in a orderly fashion began. Honest attending Sunday Morning Church Services did not. Still, maintain No Church in America preaches Spiritual Growth in Sunday at 11 AM.
David, I'm actually not "Dr. Lind." :-) I have a couple of master's degrees, but no doctorate.
Like you, I don't really think monologue sermons are all that useful for fueling Christian growth on the part of new believers; I haven't found them to be so, and I don't think most preachers think much about that as a specific goal. When I recommended connecting to a church, I was thinking of it as valuable mostly for the personal fellowship and opportunity to be taught in Sunday school and other Bible studies, as well as for possible service opportunities which are also a means of growth.
My early Christian experience had points in common with yours; I became a Christian in high school, but didn't experience serious growth until my later college years. (I wasn't mentored by any single believer, but I could have benefitted from the experience.) But I never read through the whole Bible until I was in college, and got a modern-English version I could understand. Before that, my acquaintance with the Bible was only through the King James Version, and was pretty hit-and-miss; and my ignorance was colossal!
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Thank you Dr. Lind for your response. I know I had to have someone to "Dick and Jane" it down to me. I made a commitment to Christ at age 16 ~ read the Bible cover-to-cover first year of my conversation ( not claiming I understood much, actually.) At age 21 ( in Vietnam I was "DIscipled" by a 1st LT ~ one hour/night, and afterward reading the Bible and praying and mediating ~ thus, the growth in a orderly fashion began. Honest attending Sunday Morning Church Services did not. Still, maintain No Church in America preaches Spiritual Growth in Sunday at 11 AM.
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David, I'm actually not "Dr. Lind." :-) I have a couple of master's degrees, but no doctorate.Like you, I don't really think monologue sermons are all that useful for fueling Christian growth on the part of new believers; I haven't found them to be so, and I don't think most preachers think much about that as a specific goal. When I recommended connecting to a church, I was thinking of it as valuable mostly for the personal fellowship and opportunity to be taught in Sunday school and other Bible studies, as well as for possible service opportunities which are also a means of growth.
My early Christian experience had points in common with yours; I became a Christian in high school, but didn't experience serious growth until my later college years. (I wasn't mentored by any single believer, but I could have benefitted from the experience.) But I never read through the whole Bible until I was in college, and got a modern-English version I could understand. Before that, my acquaintance with the Bible was only through the King James Version, and was pretty hit-and-miss; and my ignorance was colossal!
